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I love chess/checkers variants. Here's a fun one that was invented(though probably not the first) by someone at my chess club. They called it ludo chess. Norma
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
I love chess/checkers variants.
Here's a fun one that was invented(though probably not the first) by someone at my chess club. They called it ludo chess. Normal chess rules, except: two pieces can stack on the same square, and subsequently move together with the combined power of both pieces. You can also just move one of them, splitting the stack.
We've had a lot of fun playing this at our club over a few beers. One of my favourite strategies is sticking your king on a knight so it can jump out of mating nets. And carrying a pawn with your rook to create a dangerous passed pawn within a couple moves.
- failrate 4y agoI have seen a commercially produced variant of this with pieces that can be clasped together.
- retzkek 4y agoThat was probably Paco Ŝako, aka Peace Chess. Only similar insofar as two pieces can share a space, otherwise quite different - there's no captures, rather pieces embrace, with the goal to embrace the opponent's king. https://pacosako.com/en https://pacosako.com/en
- fsiefken 4y agohi failrate, you might have seen paco sako chess, but that seems to be a joining of black and white instead of two black or two white pieces (the latter being a bit similar to the musquito mechanism in hive, a hexagonal chess like game). https://www.sasktoday.ca/central/opinion/the-meeple-guild-new-chess-variant-looked-better-than-it-was-4120734 https://www.sasktoday.ca/central/opinion/the-meeple-guild-ne...
- failrate 4y agoI believe you are correct. I wonder if you could play both games with the same set.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoFrom a first glance it looks like it. Generally we would just sort of put the pieces next to eachother. A smallish piece set compared to the board size would be helpful, but that's no issue when you're at a chess club.
- fsiefken 4y agohi mtlmtlmtlmtl, then you might also like dameo, emergo and other abstract games by designer christian freeling. it's playable on the dagaz web engine and stephen tavener's aiai. https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/dagaz/767-dameo https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/dagaz/767-dameo https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24698/dameo/forums/0 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24698/dameo/forums/0 He has a fascinating page on the evolution of draughts variants https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/on-the-evolution-of-draughts-variants https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/on-the-evolution-of-drau... There's also an interesting playable chess variant called king's guard (or the more diverging chad and shakti) if you are bored of the lichess variants (i like crazyhouse or king of the hill).
- empty-theory 4y agoChristian Freeling is great :) Emergo is one of my favorites. Btw (since you mentioned Ai Ai), Lielow is also playable in Ai Ai. And the AI is much stronger in Ai Ai than in the Ludii player.
- JoshTriplett 4y agoIf you have a pawn stacked on another piece, and you use the other piece's move to get to the back row, does the pawn promote, or do you have to have the pawn step to the back row on its own power? The former seems like a recipe for exceedingly fast promotion in the mid-to-end game.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoIt's been a while but iirc the latter would be the case. The pawn has to do the move itself.
- schoen 4y agoSo you could get a pawn promotion using a queen in three moves (assuming there's an empty space on the rear rank and an open path to reach it!), instead of two. (One to combine the queen and pawn, one to move both pieces to the penultimate rank, and one pawn move to achieve the promotion.)
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoIndeed. Or a rook, or a bishop.