If you were asked by the creators of chess to make a new chess piece. What kind of moves would it be able to do? What would it look like and what would it be named?
How about a chancellor which moves like a Knight and Rook or an archbishop which moves like a Knight and Bishop. Those pieces are used in gothic chess.
that would unbalanced chess their are plenty of different chess pieces already like hawk elephant
Patzer, weren't those pieces that capablanca designed?
How about a piece that can move like every other piece on the board?
Make the board 10X10 and put a Chamealeon on each corner. It can move like any piece it is next to.
Spear. It moves like a rook, but with a maximum distance of 2 squares. But if it moves 2 squares it can kill the peice it lands on AND the one it jumped over.
As a nod to the state of modern warfare, I'd create the IED (or mine, if you prefer). The rules are simple, and require no extra tokens: Each player chooses two squares on rows 3-6 at the start of the game as "mined"(marked on slips of paper); any piece that moves through a mined square would be blown up, in the middle of the moving players turn, but the detonation of the mine would count as the opposing player's turn and the moving player would be allowed to move again (but would have one less piece to move with :( ). Any piece landing on a mined square would be at the mercy of the mine-owning player's choice: blow it up on any of his turns as his move, or wait until the piece tried to move and blew itself up automatically. To detonate a mine, just shout "BOOM!" in a loud voice (try it, it's fun) and reveal the slip of paper with the mined square to your opponent (you can snicker with glee if the opponent tried to move his queen or a rook). Knights can jump over pieces, and so can only be caught by landing on a mine, pawns can only move through if they moved two squares on their first turn, otherwise they would have to land on top. As with all pieces, you can't occupy a square with more than one piece, so you can't move one of your pieces on to one of your mines (that gives your opponent clues as to where your mines might be). The king alone is immune: if the king comes within one square of a mine, then the opponent must call check, and reveal the mined square as the source of the check (though he may move normally first). A penny or some other small implement can be used to mark a revealed mined square for the rest of the game, at that point. If the king is in check and the only squares to which he can move contain mines, then the king is counted as checkmated.
What do y'all think?? Anybody want to play test it????
In Chinese chess there is a great piece called a firecracker. It moves like a rook, but can only capture by jumping over another piece. The piece it jumps over can be anywhere on the rank or file it is capturing on between it and the piece it is capturing. It can be powerful earlier in the game, but it is less threatening on an open board.
Oh, and two more things, once a king has been checked by a mine, and the mine rrevealed, the king isn't considered in check anymore since he knows where the mine is.
two, if the king is in check by some random source, and a piece trying to interpose gets mined, then the king is still in check and has to find some other way out. if there is no other way out, then the king becomes checkmate as soon as the mine makes it's capture.
Oh, and once the game starts "obviously" mines don't move.....
Hi, Norwegian mate.
I believe chess is more or less perfect so I don't think it is neccessary to think of new pieces :)
Just check out the chinese chess (xiangqi) or japanese chess (shogi) and you'll find pieces that move differently from chess.
The peasant - like the pawn but reversed (i.e. it moves one square diagonally and captures one square directly in front, and can only move forwards; can also promote when it reaches the last rank).
If I were to create another piece I would call it a Jester.
First I need to increase board size to a 9x9 board, adding a pawn on each side , and a Black and White Jester next to the Queen.
I realize that a 9x9 board would break the symetry of the starting game position and if you want to absolutely keep the symmetry I then would go with a 10x10 board and add 2 pawns on each side and 2 Jesters. Jesters positionned one next to the Queen and the other next to the King.
What doe a Jester do?
As Jesters were entertainers and no one could predict what he would, then the element of suprise is in play!
When the first piece, any piece, excluding pawns, is captured by any piece on the board including a pawn, he then would be replaced by the same piece.
In other words if a Black Knight is captured first by a White a pawn or any other piece of the artillery, then the Jester becomes a Black Knight.
When the second piece is captured, say a Black Bishop captured by a White piece, then the 2nd Jester becomes a Black Bishop.
Naturally the Jester stays at it's initial position, next to the Queen or King whether one or two Jesters are used in the game.
Now that would also be good for the manufacturers of chess pieces as the players would have to buy a second set of chess pieces either a complete set, as I would, or a set with the artillery pieces only excluding the pawns and this would be cheaper to buy. As the quantities of oieces increase the prices would drop.
The game variation where you would decide when to replace the Jester at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc piece captured rather than first and second piece, becomes in my opinion extremely complicated and outside the realm of my abilities, as combinations become not only mathematically very large but also the unpredictability of the crucial time when the piece is replaced would be in the order of the capabilities and perhaps beyond only the greatest in this world, not my cup of tea!!
Now this would add a tremendous pressure on any player because of the unknown element of the next move.
Will he use his Jester now or later? What do I do if it's now and if he/she does t take the option,what is my best next move?
Again a player must decide before his opponent move what he will play as he does not know if the opponent will use the Jester option, not simple at all!
For those that want to keep an 8X8 board, I then suggest to place the Jester on the square that the first piece has been captured or the closest square of his choice, but choices are limited here, if I opt to not use the Jester substitute then I do not have the option after my move to use it again, just like the : "la prise en passant". In other words when you capture my Knight I have the option to use my Jester and replace it with a Knight at the same or closest square where my Knight has been captured or to waive my option and cannot reuse it later. In this case I would stick with only one Jester on each side.
Complicated, not really just trying to make the game more interesting and challenging.
Let's create a new chess game!
chess is good with the pieces it has. No new pieces are needed.
I like the idea of the 'Canon' in chinese chess. In order to capture a piece it has to jump over it.
The chancellor and archbishop were introduced by Capablanca - here is an excerpt from my blog.
Capablanca "invents" Capablanca chess
Capablanca predicted that chess could face major problems if the various top players chose to draw every game. To prevent this from happening, Capablanca suggested a new variation on chess, called "Capablanca chess", to be played on a 10x8 board, with two new pieces introduced:
His idea was that the added pieces and board size would increase the complexity of chess and allow the strongest player more opportunities to turn the game in his favor. Contrary to the assertion of some critics, Capablanca proposed this complicated variant while he was world champion, not as sour grapes after losing his title. He played a few games of this variant against Edward Lasker.
http://blog.chess.com/qtsii/jose-capablanca---chess-history-part-9-intellectual-input
RELee1865 wrote: chess is good with the pieces it has. No new pieces are needed.
The question is :if !
And I surmise that you are not willing to try something else.
that's fine enjoy it and I also do but what if??
I would propose a new, invisible piece called the chameleon. Staying with the standard 8x8 board, replace any one of the existing pieces by the invisible piece. The original piece can now go anywhere along the row in front of the pawns. The invisible piece would move in the same way as each of the existing pieces - in turn. It's first move would be a pawn move, 2nd move would be knight move and so on. It's 6th move would be a king's move. On the 7th, it's back to being a pawn for that move.
The beauty of it is that no additional equipment is needed. All you have to do is keep track of where the two chameleons are and how many times they've moved.
A chameleon would be cool although I like Jungleroy59's idea about moving like the piece it was surrounded by or last capture.
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