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The Chess Variants of Ebinola
By: ebinola Date: January 16, 2018, 2:46 pm
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So, I figured that since we're daft about chess games that are
off the beaten path, here would be the best place for me to
showcase some of the stuff that I've made. Rate, hate, whatever.
Fool's Chess (2015)
HTML https://i.imgur.com/4hz5lCu.png
This is my first ever variant. I had learned of the fool piece's
existence from the Youtube channel Manor Games. To me at the
time, the fool felt like chess' missing link - a king isn't
without his court jester, right?
For those of you who don't know how the fool moves, its move is
very simple to describe - a fool mimics the movement pattern of
the last piece played by the opponent. Seems simple enough, but
the game eventually dissolves into chaos as the fools create
more and more mindgames, causing indirect checks and pins. Its
true value to this day is still a mystery to me, but one thing's
for certain - the fool certainly gets the last laugh.
I have also tried other positions with the fools, but I find
this one to be the best, though the disadvantage to this
specific position is that you can't fianchetto the bishops.
Fool's Drop Chess (2016)
Some people don't like 10x8 boards. Me personally, I'm
indifferent to them. However, in an attempt to bring fool's
chess to an 8x8 board, I decided I would try to combine elements
of the 10x8 variant with a new variant that I had just
discovered, s-chess. Instead of having an elephant and hawk in
hand, you have a fool, which is placed onto the board in the
same manner as the elephant and hawk in s-chess.
Normie Chess (2016)
Normie chess is a variant that caters to people who don't
actually play chess, hence the term NORMIE. Back in 2016, the
term 'normie' had a spike in popularity for what should
otherwise be obvious reasons. A friend of mine gave me a really
good idea for a chess variant - 'a chess game for non-chess
players.' And that's exactly what I did.
The setup position is that of chess, but the bishops and knights
are swapped, and so are the king and queen.
The side who moves first is determined by a coinflip. Heads =
White, Tails = Black.
A player may pass their move onto their opponent.
There's no castling or en passant - moving 2 pieces at the same
time is cheating.
The king must be captured in order to win. This means he can
move directly into an enemy's line of fire.
Pawns (Soldiers) move and capture 1 squrare vertically or
diagonally forward (I think this is the copper general from
larger shogi variants?) They may only promote to pieces that
have been removed from play.
Bishops move like a king in addition to their regular move
(think the dragon horse from shogi).
Knights (Horses) Move like the Chinese Mao, but captures on both
moves and can capture both enemy and friendly men.
Normies ruin everything, is what I'm trying to get at.
Pick 'n' Mix Chess (2017, unfinished/dropped)
If you're British, you'll know that pick 'n' mix is basically a
term for bulk confectionery. I'm not sure what the rest of the
world calls it but I called it pick 'n' mix chess. The game
involved players setting up their army by picking 16 cards of 6
different piece types to build their own army. You then arranged
your army how you liked (the only restriction was that you could
only place pieces on squares that the orthodox chessmen of the
same piece type shared e.g. you could only place knight-type
pieces on the b and g files) and then play continued as normal.
Each card hard a point value, and no deck was allowed to exceed
a total value of 39. I featured some of the 'classic' fairy
chess pieces like the chancellor, archbishop, etc.. But I also
included some more strange, bizarre pieces like the 'siege
tower,' a rook that moved only up to 2 squares, but could
capture without moving; the 'suicide king,' a king which only
moved 1 square diagonally but rewarded the gutsy player with
extra points; and the 'sentry,' a rook piece that could move 1
square orthogonally twice (non-capturing), or could capture any
piece within 2 squares of it without moving.
I shelved the game because I felt that the deck system was too
restricting. You're not allowed to use all the powerful pieces
that you'd want to use, so you're stuck using a few powerful
pieces and substituting the rest for less powerful pieces like
the elephant (alfil) and tank (dabbaba). It's unlikely that I'll
ever come back to it, but if anyone wants to see the list of
cards I had made, I can put them on my Google Drive.
Cess (2017, WIP)
HTML https://i.imgur.com/Rr1Zx7o.png
A simple variant played on a 7x8 board (hence no h-file). Each
player only has one bishop... but both bishops are on opposite
colours! This is intentional, to allow me to introduce a new
defensive option that the king can use.
I've devised a new defensive move for the king that can be
performed an unlimited number of times in a game, known as
parrying. A parry involves swapping the position of the king
with any adjacent piece that can move diagonally. In Cess, there
are only two pieces that can move in this way - the bishop and
the archbishop. I think there's a lot that could be done with
this one, so it's still in the works.
Samurai Shogi (2017/18)
A parody of Zied Haddad's musketeer chess. Not a direct
inspiration, a parody. The shogi board is expanded to 10x10 and
receives 6 new major pieces that players must agree on to add to
the board.
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Re: The Chess Variants of Ebinola
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: January 16, 2018, 4:53 pm
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Absolutely wonderful variants! Keep it up! ;D
Everyone I recommend you check out this Manor Games fellow! He's
GREAT!
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Re: The Chess Variants of Ebinola
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: January 17, 2018, 12:57 pm
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For fool's drop chess with s-chess rules (great idea! I wonder
what other variants could be adapted to that....) do you have
one or two fools in hand?
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Re: The Chess Variants of Ebinola
By: ebinola Date: January 17, 2018, 3:57 pm
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One keeps things interesting, I think two on an 8x8 board would
be overwhelming.
I even tried s-chess with an added fool but things got really
out of hand. Often with chess variants you find yourself
changing a rule only to see that you've broken a few more. ;)
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Re: The Chess Variants of Ebinola
By: musketeerchess Date: January 20, 2018, 7:18 pm
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[quote author=ebinola link=topic=28.msg103#msg103
date=1516135588]
So, I figured that since we're daft about chess games that are
off the beaten path, here would be the best place for me to
showcase some of the stuff that I've made. Rate, hate, whatever.
Fool's Chess (2015)
HTML https://i.imgur.com/4hz5lCu.png
This is my first ever variant. I had learned of the fool piece's
existence from the Youtube channel Manor Games. To me at the
time, the fool felt like chess' missing link - a king isn't
without his court jester, right?
For those of you who don't know how the fool moves, its move is
very simple to describe - a fool mimics the movement pattern of
the last piece played by the opponent. Seems simple enough, but
the game eventually dissolves into chaos as the fools create
more and more mindgames, causing indirect checks and pins. Its
true value to this day is still a mystery to me, but one thing's
for certain - the fool certainly gets the last laugh.
I have also tried other positions with the fools, but I find
this one to be the best, though the disadvantage to this
specific position is that you can't fianchetto the bishops.
Fool's Drop Chess (2016)
Some people don't like 10x8 boards. Me personally, I'm
indifferent to them. However, in an attempt to bring fool's
chess to an 8x8 board, I decided I would try to combine elements
of the 10x8 variant with a new variant that I had just
discovered, s-chess. Instead of having an elephant and hawk in
hand, you have a fool, which is placed onto the board in the
same manner as the elephant and hawk in s-chess.
Normie Chess (2016)
Normie chess is a variant that caters to people who don't
actually play chess, hence the term NORMIE. Back in 2016, the
term 'normie' had a spike in popularity for what should
otherwise be obvious reasons. A friend of mine gave me a really
good idea for a chess variant - 'a chess game for non-chess
players.' And that's exactly what I did.
The setup position is that of chess, but the bishops and knights
are swapped, and so are the king and queen.
The side who moves first is determined by a coinflip. Heads =
White, Tails = Black.
A player may pass their move onto their opponent.
There's no castling or en passant - moving 2 pieces at the same
time is cheating.
The king must be captured in order to win. This means he can
move directly into an enemy's line of fire.
Pawns (Soldiers) move and capture 1 squrare vertically or
diagonally forward (I think this is the copper general from
larger shogi variants?) They may only promote to pieces that
have been removed from play.
Bishops move like a king in addition to their regular move
(think the dragon horse from shogi).
Knights (Horses) Move like the Chinese Mao, but captures on both
moves and can capture both enemy and friendly men.
Normies ruin everything, is what I'm trying to get at.
Pick 'n' Mix Chess (2017, unfinished/dropped)
If you're British, you'll know that pick 'n' mix is basically a
term for bulk confectionery. I'm not sure what the rest of the
world calls it but I called it pick 'n' mix chess. The game
involved players setting up their army by picking 16 cards of 6
different piece types to build their own army. You then arranged
your army how you liked (the only restriction was that you could
only place pieces on squares that the orthodox chessmen of the
same piece type shared e.g. you could only place knight-type
pieces on the b and g files) and then play continued as normal.
Each card hard a point value, and no deck was allowed to exceed
a total value of 39. I featured some of the 'classic' fairy
chess pieces like the chancellor, archbishop, etc.. But I also
included some more strange, bizarre pieces like the 'siege
tower,' a rook that moved only up to 2 squares, but could
capture without moving; the 'suicide king,' a king which only
moved 1 square diagonally but rewarded the gutsy player with
extra points; and the 'sentry,' a rook piece that could move 1
square orthogonally twice (non-capturing), or could capture any
piece within 2 squares of it without moving.
I shelved the game because I felt that the deck system was too
restricting. You're not allowed to use all the powerful pieces
that you'd want to use, so you're stuck using a few powerful
pieces and substituting the rest for less powerful pieces like
the elephant (alfil) and tank (dabbaba). It's unlikely that I'll
ever come back to it, but if anyone wants to see the list of
cards I had made, I can put them on my Google Drive.
EDIT: I have another variant that I completely forgot about!
Cess (2017, WIP)
HTML https://i.imgur.com/Rr1Zx7o.png
A simple variant played on a 7x8 board (hence no h-file). Each
player only has one bishop... but both bishops are on opposite
colours! This is intentional, to allow me to introduce a new
defensive option that the king can use.
I've devised a new defensive move for the king that can be
performed an unlimited number of times in a game, known as
parrying. A parry involves swapping the position of the king
with any adjacent piece that can move diagonally. In Cess, there
are only two pieces that can move in this way - the bishop and
the archbishop. I think there's a lot that could be done with
this one, so it's still in the works.
There's also one other variant that I've created in 2017, but
I've chosen not to show it off here if for no other reason than
some might find its contents distasteful. However, if you look
hard enough on Google, you'll find it. Here's a hint - a very
specific plant is often associated with it.
If you do find it - keep it to yourself. And remember the first
and second rules of Fight Club. :^)
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WONDERFUL VARIANTS
I LIKE FOOL'S CHESS AND I'D LIKE TO PLAY A GAME OF FOOL CHESS !!
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