The importance of the king makes no sense...

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GothicChessed

Actually there is a nice variant where instead the King to be the "royal" piece that has to be checkmated, it is the Knight. And you have a good game. It's damn difficult to trap that little jumpy horse. :) 

A good Chess variant, though a LOT worse than regular Chess.

ChessTeil

in my opinion, kings in chess are trash and the idea of kings having the power of a queen interests me

Clockwork_Nemesis
I changed the game so you roll dice to see how far your king goes and if you pass h1 you get $200. You can sell your pawns to build hotels.