Fluidity Chess
You’ll probably tell that it’s plagiarism beacause it’s hybrid of chess and draughts, but have you seen it with standard board, many captured pieces per turn, standard pieces and (probably) able to be on Lichess?
I did it for Lichess, but they don’t need it now (for 1 year minimally). I write it there.
Setup
Standard setup without pawns.
Pieces
All pieces can't move to occupied square. They can make check only on their move destinations (to explain this, it's said that they can throw a knife in foe king). They can't capture by displacement. They capture even better:
Bishop
He moves and checks as in chess, unobstructed diagonal line; so he is ranger and captures the opponent’s pieces as ranger, by dissecting — going through them to any free square behind them. As ranger, he can capture up to 6 pieces per turn. He is colorbound, he can't move through friendly pieces, and he can't capture a piece which stands on the edge of the board.
Knight
He moves and checks as in chess, L-shape: and captures pieces which are in 1 and 2 squares orthogonally in direction of this move (as we learn his moves, 2 squares straight in one side, 1 in other; and there first 2 squares are under dissecting capture). As leaper, he can capture up to 2 pieces, and checks so differently than captures. So he can jump over his own pieces (without dissection of them), and he can capture a piece which stands on every square, even on the edge or corner of the board.
Rook
She moves and checks as in chess, unobstructed orthogonal (straight) line, and captures as ranger by going through the pieces to free squares. So she can capture up to 6 pieces, can't move through friendly pieces, can't capture piece which stands in corner, but can capture a piece if it's on the edge of the board, and can capture during the castling (see later).
Queen
Bishop + Rook, exactly, she is ranger and can capture up to 6 pieces which aren't on the corner, can't move through friendly pieces.
King
As in chess, 1 square in arbitrary directions, but doesn’t capture by himself because he can't dissect, and by this, two kings can be near each other, due to being not in check. (So you can checkmate or stalemate opponent’s king near your king by your another piece(s)). Castling: you can castle if:
- your king and rook haven’t moved yet;
- your king isn’t under check;
- your castling path is empty or isn't under check; or
- you have opponent’s pieces between king and rook, but not in row. (If you have foe pieces on b & d files, you can castle queenside yet).
and if you castle through them, you capture them — up to 1 piece by castling kingside, and up to 2 if queenside, and castling can capture only minor pieces, i. e. Bishops or/and Knights. (King can capture only during the castling.)
Rules
Your aim is to checkmate the other king or capture him by dissection if: opponent will block the path of check after your move, and his king will be behind his own pieces (and behind them must be free squares); or do it by your knight. So stalemate is loss of player without legal moves.
So 2 kings and 1 knight is not automatic draw.
Notes
I have the study on Lichess about it. See my acc: https://lichess.org/@/Rechefiltr_is_Fire
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By Lev Grigoriev.
Last revised by Lev Grigoriev.
Web page created: 2022-07-25. Web page last updated: 2024-03-16