bureaucracy is essential. start thinking lmao
Has anyone ever made something like a uh, sort of stamina/mana system for chess?
Like what I mean is, both players start with say 10 move/logistics points.
Different pieces cost different amounts of move/logistics points to move, and then uh, your move point pool replenishes by some amount on your next turn, maybe by some calculation of getting back more points the less units you have on the board.
You could also make that more nuts by allowing multiple units to be move in one player turn, with some kind of climbing cost penalty for each move after the first.
So you could blitz, but then basically be stunlocked for your next turn.
this feels pretty similar to what you're describing https://youtu.be/y7VtSK23_Jg
Edit: for those who don't want to click youtube, the person designs a chess board to play real-time chess. each piece has a movement cooldown enforced by the board which uses magnets to restrict you from moving pieces while they are on cooldown.
Well thats fucking neat on an engineering level alone, damn!
A Freaky Friday piece that can swap with a non-king or pawn piece of the same color still on the board, as long as neither can be captured or can take another piece before or immediately following the swap. Moves and captures like a king.
Interesting... This would be a great way to train newbies to look for weak points.
Yeah, I also thinks it helps as a training piece because it forces players to think past the next move. There's virtually no move of opportunity that you can make with it. If you're going to use it all, you need to think a minimum of two moves ahead.
I think the "neither can take another piece following the swap" is to restrictive. After the swap it is not your turn anymore anyway and it would basically make it impossible to swap with a queen or rook/bishop. They can capture something for most parts of the game. Just usually a protected piece.
Can it be captured?
Yes, the usage would be to block pieces in a way that won't get it caught.
My take: Just add time and different scenery.
Some pieces couldn't move at night. Some could only move on grass land, some other only within woods or rocky mountains. And then there is a catapult where you can shoot pieces randomly back on the board.
The Tank
Replaces a knight
moves like a rook, captures like a pawn.
can't be captured except by a knight or a tank.
The sniper.
This is somewhat similar to cannons from xiangqi, which move like rooks but can only capture by leaping over another piece on the line of attack.
I swear I once read about a variant called The Jack with a new piece called a Jack. Can't find anything online about it and don't remember what it did.
Maybe it starts out on e4 and the current player can decide to either move one of their pieces or the singular beaurocrat.
Maybe the Capablanca's idea could be a good solucion to avoid draws in classical chess, a piece caoabke to make a checkmate by itself, I mean, it only make sense for high level games, fortunately with chess 960 (ramdom chess) the opportunity of innovation and emotion is there.
Holy hell
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