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       #Post#: 610--------------------------------------------------
       Dodgeball Chess
       By: Erdmundr Date: March 15, 2018, 7:58 am
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       While I was sleeping last night, I came up with the idea of the
       following variant in a dream which combines elements of chess
       and dodgeball.
       Each player has their own 5x5 board, and play begins with the
       pawns on the 8 squares surrounding the center square and a ball
       in White's center.
       Pawns move outward (diagonal pawns can move in two orthogonal
       outward directions) and promote once they reach the outer rim of
       the board.
       Any piece can only be promoted to the same number of times that
       the piece exists on a regular chess board (so you could only
       have two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one
       king).
       If a piece is killed, it it removed from the list of viable
       promotion candidates. So if you kill the queen, they cannot
       promote another pawn to a Queen, but if you killed their first
       knight, they could promote to the second knight.
       The goal of the game is to kill the enemy king, or prevent it
       from promoting (by killing all remaining pawns before the
       opponent has promoted one to king).
       The way to kill pieces is by hitting them with the ball
       according to the following restrictions:
       Only pieces can move the ball, and you can only move it if it is
       on your side of the board.
       When the ball is on your side, and you move a piece, the ball is
       pushed in the opposite direction from the corresponding point in
       your opponents board. You may assume the board is a torus for
       this purpose, although pieces cannot use the extra mobility that
       a torus would grant. If the ball lands on an enemy pawn or
       piece, it is eliminated.
       If the ball is on the other side and it's your turn (as a result
       of promotion) then you can move as usual without affecting the
       position of the ball.
       At the moment, White gets the first move and the ball, but if
       that is too imbalanced, we could try giving Black the ball at
       the start. Other rules could also certainly be finetuned with
       practice. I think if pawns could move the ball (so it would
       always shift sides), White would have a larger advantage. This
       way, after the first throw, Black can choose to promote as many
       pieces as they want before throwing the ball back.
       Let me know if you all have thoughts or comments.
       #Post#: 832--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Dodgeball Chess
       By: Asher Hurowitz Date: April 20, 2018, 9:39 am
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       Awesome! Many variants come to me in dreams as well!
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