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Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
If I were to make up the rules:
- Black gets to select at the start, which of the 8 empty tiles of the board should be voided.
- Pieces can move and capture across, but can’t land in the void. It is an invalid move when considering checkmate/evading check.
- Black or White can choose to move an adjacent tile into the void regardless of what pieces are on it. This uses their move.
- The tile can be moved to get out of check or avoid checkmate or stalemate.
- You cannot put yourself or both players in check with the tile move.
- The tile cannot be moved if you are in check and moving the tile doesn’t get you out.
- The space between where a king starts and ends when sitting upon a sliding tile does not count as a vulnerable space, unlike the normal rules for castling.
- The king can castle under otherwise normal rules, if it and the target rook are in the original position even if the tile that they sit on had moved away then back, so long as those pieces were never moved normally. (To prevent the king being forcibly moved by the opponent solely to deny castling opportunity)
- Moving a tile causing one’s own pawn to bypass an opponent pawn’s attacking space (anywhere on the board) only triggers the en passant rule if there is a valid space where the opponent’s piece would capture. No en passant for moving backwards or moving your opponent’s pieces past yours.
- Pawn Promotion doesn’t happen even if a pawn moves backwards to the player’s own end row.
- It would be rare, but en passant could capture a newly promoted piece if someone had moved their pawn one row backward and their opponent used the tile move to try to bypass it.
- Two promotions can happen in one tile move.
- The opponent chooses the piece(s) to promote if you move their pawn(s) to your end row.
- You cannot move the tile if a resulting opponent’s promotion(s) to queens and/or knights would cause a check on you, even if for whatever reason the opponent would not choose that promotion.
- No prohibitions on causing stalemate through tile moves. Though it is more likely to cause a repetition draw due to the trapped player being able to simply reverse it.
Did I forget to cover anything?
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
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Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I would say you can only move a tile if you have a piece on it as well.