Fluidity Chess
You’ll probably tell that it’s plagiarism beacause it’s hybrid of chess and draughts, but have you seen it with standard board, standard pieces and able to be on Lichess?
I did it for Lichess, but they don’t need it now (for 1 year minimally). I write it there.
Setup
Standard setup without pawns.
Pieces
All pieces can give check on their move destinations.
All pieces can't move to occupied square. They can't capture by displacement. They capture even better:
Bishop
He moves as in chess, unobstructed motion on diagonal lines; so he captures the opponent’s pieces by going through them to any free square behind them.
Knight
He moves as in chess, L-shape: and captures pieces which are in 1 and 2 squares orthogonally in direction of this move (2 squares straight in one side, 1 in other; and first 2 squares are under dissecting capture). So he can jump over his own pieces (without dissection of them), but he makes checks only on his moves’ destinations.
Rook
She moves as in chess, unobstructed orthogonal motion, and captures by going through the pieces to free squares. So she can capture during the castling (see later).
Queen
Bishop + Rook, exactly.
King
As in chess, but doesn’t capture as usual, and by this, two kings can be near each other, due to being not in check. (So you can checkmate or stalemate opponent’s king near your king by your another piece(s)). Castling: you can castle if:
- your king and rook haven’t moved yet;
- your king isn’t under attack;
- your castling path is empty or isn't under attack; or
- you have opponent’s pieces between king and rook, but not in row. (If you have foe pieces on b & d files, you can castle queenside yet).
and if you castle through them, you capture it. (King can capture only in castling.)
Rules
Your aim is to checkmate the other king or capture him by dissection if he will be behind his own pieces. So stalemate is loss of player without legal moves.
So 2 kings and 1 knight is not automatic draw.
Notes
I have the study on Lichess about it. See my acc: https://lichess.org/@/Rechefiltr_is_Fire
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By Lev Grigoriev.
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Web page created: 2022-07-25. Web page last updated: 2024-03-16