I made up a variant for me and my friends to try out and they both seemed to enjoy it, i now call it "Secret Kings" The twist of the game is for each person to choose any piece on the board and declare it to be the secret king without telling your opponent, then it is the opponents turn to pick a piece.
RULES OF THE GAME:
each player may pick a piece they legally own on the board without the knowledge of the opponent before the game starts, this includes pawns, bishops, knights, the queen, and even the original king.
white goes first and all pieces move the same as in original chess.
all checking rules apply to the chosen king piece but will not to the actual king piece if the particular piece was not chosen, which means you may let it be taken.
you may not tell the opponent if they are checking your king.
the chosen king piece can be checkmated by normal means.
you may not let your chosen king piece be taken.
if the chosen piece is a pawn that succeeded in promoting, the piece still retains the same rules as the new piece.
DESCRIPTION:
in this variant, you can pick a secret king and hide it from players! the strategy for which piece is better to choose and endgame results would be fun to investigate! and you could switch it up a little by doing any of the following, choosing a pawn to give low suspicion of the piece for low power, doing the queen for ultimate power but high suspicion, and doing a knight to leap out of checkmates! you could confuse them with picking the original king! this would spark even more love for the chess variant section and would be fun to find the hidden king in the crowd!
so I'm asking the community to give support for this new variant and help it make it in the official variant section!
This should be in the "Chess Variants" section of the forums. It'll get more attention there.
I made up a variant for me and my friends to try out and they both seemed to enjoy it, i now call it "Secret Kings" The twist of the game is for each person to choose any piece on the board and declare it to be the secret king without telling your opponent, then it is the opponents turn to pick a piece.
RULES OF THE GAME:
each player may pick a piece they legally own on the board without the knowledge of the opponent before the game starts, this includes pawns, bishops, knights, the queen, and even the original king.
white goes first and all pieces move the same as in original chess.
all checking rules apply to the chosen king piece but will not to the actual king piece if the particular piece was not chosen, which means you may let it be taken.
you may not tell the opponent if they are checking your king.
the chosen king piece can be checkmated by normal means.
you may not let your chosen king piece be taken.
if the chosen piece is a pawn that succeeded in promoting, the piece still retains the same rules as the new piece.
DESCRIPTION:
in this variant, you can pick a secret king and hide it from players! the strategy for which piece is better to choose and endgame results would be fun to investigate! and you could switch it up a little by doing any of the following, choosing a pawn to give low suspicion of the piece for low power, doing the queen for ultimate power but high suspicion, and doing a knight to leap out of checkmates! you could confuse them with picking the original king! this would spark even more love for the chess variant section and would be fun to find the hidden king in the crowd!
so I'm asking the community to give support for this new variant and help it make it in the official variant section!