Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant
missingno@fedia.io 4 days agoChess is already asymmetric since white moves first, so it's not necessarily a problem for the starting position to also be asymmetric. Though I wonder which would be the best starting position for the empty square, on white's side or black's?
Nougat@fedia.io 4 days ago
I'd think that having an empty 2x2 right in front of any of your pieces would limit your options for moving pieces. So I would put it in front of White, not in the middle, but on one of the edges. Also, White would not be allowed to shift the tile on their first turn, since that would just put the disadvantage on Black, who would shift a tile, yada yada.
Another thing - would Queens, Bishops, Rooks be able to "jump" the empty space to cross from one side of an empty 2x2? I'm thinking yes.
Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I think the answer to that question will be clear once you play test it
You’d probably want both varients, though I suspect being able to block a queen attack by moving a tile would bring more tatically nuance.
Nougat@fedia.io 4 days ago
Wouldn't be hard to build a paper board and play on that.
Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I’m going to put on together once I have time See how that goes, I don’t have anyone to trial it against though but I’ll put a Lemmy post up about it