Chess on the Rope
After I’ve seen category “1d” in settings of submissions, I thought: what about variant on 1d board?
Later I used the fields of my Geometry notebook to draw a draft, then I wrote these rules in my notebook of chess variants, also on fields.
Setup
Rules
- Your aim is to checkmate opponent’s king.
- Draw occurs if it’s stalemate, checkmate isn’t possible, or there’re 12 moves without any progress (capture, promotion or checkmate). Threefold repetition of position is a draw also.
- Pawn can be promoted on 18 rank (for white) or on 4 (for black) to Đ, Ď, T or R.
- G and T are minors, other pieces are majors (i. e. K vs K & G/T is drawn game).
- Pieces’ values: P=1, G=2, Đ=4, Ď=5, T=7, R=9.
Notes
There are several rule variations:
Three-Check version
where 3 checks to opponent’s king are also winning.
Regeneration
Once in 2 moves, if 1 (for white), 21 (for black) is free, captured pieces of the player can return to him after his move (if latter wasn’t capture). The last captured piece of the player returns first, then piece which’s captured just before the last one will return, etc.
Crazyhouse version
Captured pieces are in hand of player who captured them, and he can drop a piece from hand on any free square; however, it’s forbidden to drop Pawn to give immediate checkmate.
Hold on dice! variation
A funny tricky game where after moving a piece (except for king which must be a good acrobat anyway), the owning player has to roll the die, and fortune will decide if this piece will live or not. Every piece has an unique level of acrobatic mastery measured in number on the dice. If player drops this or lower number on the die, piece remains on the board on the square to which it has moved. In other case it falls and disappears from a game. If it had captured opponent’s piece, latter disappears even if capturing piece does it also.
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Pawn |
3 |
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Dabbaba |
2 |
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Dove |
4 |
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Torch |
3 |
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Router |
1 |
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Guard |
5 |
Also it has board variation:
Minimalistic Chess on the Rope
where board is 15 squares, and positioning is same as in normal version, but there’s no Routers & Torches; also you need just 10 moves without progress for a draw.
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By Lev Grigoriev.
Last revised by H. G. Muller.
Web page created: 2023-06-27. Web page last updated: 2023-10-22