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Now let's design chess variants on a hyperbolical plane!
by _nalply 3y ago
Now let's design chess variants on a hyperbolical plane!
- hinkley 3y agoRed Queen problem?
- jerf 3y agoWhenever you think to yourself that Chess, but X, would be interesting, you should just pop it into a search engine: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40511/hyperbolic-chess https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40511/hyperbolic-chess I say this not as a "you should have searched", but because it's fun. There are thousands of chess variants in the world ( https://www.chessvariants.com/Gindex.html https://www.chessvariants.com/Gindex.html ) and it's amazing where this simple game can be taken.
- _nalply 3y agoMy, how search got bad nowadays! I did a cursory search but got nothing interesting. Thanks for link! However that chess board is only hyperbolical in the center. A real hyperbolical chess would have five neighbors in each cell. That's a real mind-bender.
- apendleton 3y agoI've also seen several different variants for chess on a torus (imagined -- still played on a flat board, but you play as if each edge is connected to the opposite one). Pieces end up having basically the same allowed moves (IIRC the only required change is that a piece making a move where it loops around the board and back to its original position is disallowed), but a different initial setup is required, because given the regular one, both sides start the game already check-mated. For further brain-bending, you can do a Klein bottle instead of a torus.
- rini17 3y agoOr aperiodic tiles. There you can have every game with different "map".