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Imitating Chess. Pieces move as the last moved piece.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Jianying Ji wrote on Mon, May 13, 2002 03:49 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

Every move imitates the ability of the piece moved before, except the
first move for nothing is before it. What if time is circular, in that
spirit I propose the following variant:

As a first move, any piece can be moved with any power, however this
implies the last move must be made with a piece with such power, and
any move during the game that would make such a ending impossible is 
declared illeagal.

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Jun 18, 2004 06:02 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

Ludamad wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 03:24 AM UTC:Poor ★

There is a flaw with this, a P+K is more powerful than a Q+K. The Queen can never make its queen move while the pawn will either make a king move or a queen move. Also, one can checkmate with any piece + K vs K. I find it really bad that your best pieces are the most abundant...

Anonymous wrote on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 04:29 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

I don't think that 'one can checkmate with any piece + K vs K' is bad: it makes draws more rare!

HaruN Y wrote on Fri, Jul 19 07:23 AM UTC:

I once created a similar variant to this and shared it on 03/05/2023. The only difference is that the King also imitates.

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