u/NotSoClearPlatypus

ok this sounds insane and complex, but once you start playing it it's super fun and whimsical. Inspired by the recent world cup :)

there's a ball that is placed at random in one of the center 4 squares. The basic mechanic is: if a piece lands on the ball, the ball travels in the same direction and distance that the piece just travelled to.

The objective is to score a goal, checkmate is not a thing and you can capture the king (more on that later). The goals are on A6 and h3. Nobody can ever put a piece directly on the goal square, you should defend it by placing pieces around it.

So if a bishop hits the ball, and it travelled 2 squares to do so, then the ball travels 2 squares in the same direction the bishop just did.

When a knight hits it, the ball tries to "repeat" the same L movement to reach the target square. But because there are 2 different ways of reaching the same square with an L you get to decide which L the ball takes. It's like giving the ball spin.

If a ball hits a piece it cannot travel any further and it stops. If it hits the edge of the board it bounces off (so it can never get stuck on the rim).

Obviously because it's football we're talking about if you tackle an opponent (capture) instead of going for the ball, you get a yellow card. After two bad tackles it's red and your piece is out. If you tackle the keeper (king) it's a direct red card.

To add even more madness there are substitutions. You can substitute any piece out and your bench is a pawn, a knight and a bishop. You may play the same turn you subbed in a player. So if you really need a bishop to hit the ball and instead you have a knight, you can sub the knight out and hit the ball with a fresh bishop. Or, if a pawn is already on a yellow card and you want to keep it, you can sub another pawn in, and capture again. Subbed pawns can jump two squares even if they're in the middle of the board, as they're fresh players.

You can play on a board (you just need a ball cut out, goals, yellow and red cards) and that's also very fun. Or you can test a demo if you google "chess laboratory". It's like the third more popular variant on the main page.

That's it!

As I said, it sounds confusing and chaotic, and it is. But my goodness it's so whacky and fun.

ok this sounds insane and complex, but once you start playing it it's super fun and whimsical. Inspired by the recent world cup :)

there's a ball that is placed at random in one of the center 4 squares. The basic mechanic is: if a piece lands on the ball, the ball travels in the same direction and distance that the piece just travelled to.

The objective is to score a goal, checkmate is not a thing and you can capture the king (more on that later). The goals are on A6 and h3. Nobody can ever put a piece directly on the goal square, you should defend it by placing pieces around it.

So if a bishop hits the ball, and it travelled 2 squares to do so, then the ball travels 2 squares in the same direction the bishop just did.

When a knight hits it, the ball tries to "repeat" the same L movement to reach the target square. But because there are 2 different ways of reaching the same square with an L you get to decide which L the ball takes. It's like giving the ball spin.

If a ball hits a piece it cannot travel any further and it stops. If it hits the edge of the board it bounces off (so it can never get stuck on the rim).

Obviously because it's football we're talking about if you tackle an opponent (capture) instead of going for the ball, you get a yellow card. After two bad tackles it's red and your piece is out. If you tackle the keeper (king) it's a direct red card.

To add even more madness there are substitutions. You can substitute any piece out and your bench is a pawn, a knight and a bishop. You may play the same turn you subbed in a player. So if you really need a bishop to hit the ball and instead you have a knight, you can sub the knight out and hit the ball with a fresh bishop. Or, if a pawn is already on a yellow card and you want to keep it, you can sub another pawn in, and capture again. Subbed pawns can jump two squares even if they're in the middle of the board, as they're fresh players.

You can play on a board (you just need a ball cut out, goals, yellow and red cards) and that's also very fun. Or you can test a demo if you google "chess laboratory". It's like the third more popular variant on the main page.

That's it!

As I said, it sounds confusing and chaotic, and it is. But my goodness it's so whacky and fun.

At the beginning of the game you give a gun to one of your minor pieces or pawns (can't give it to: queen, rooks and king).

The gun is hidden from the enemy until you shoot it: the enemy has no clue which one of your pieces is armed, could be a random pawn, could be the knight. You also don't know, so you have to be careful.

When you are ready to use it you use a turn to fire. The gun shoots diagonally or orthogonally, jut like a queen moves.

if you hit a piece the piece is wounded and can only move one square at a time (knights start moving like kings, and kings are not affected by movement penalties as they already move 1 square at a time). If you hit a pawn it's gone in one shot.

If you shoot a wounded piece again it's dead and it goes off the board.

If the piece carrying a gun dies from being shot, the gun falls to the floor and can be picked up by whoever lands on the square again. If it's captured then the capturing piece gets the gun. 

You win by either capturing the king or shooting it dead.

Variant variant idea: medic Queen. Your Queen can act as medic for the wounded pieces in a square radius. If she stays one full turn next to a wounded piece, the piece recovers fully.

I've already made a demo, you can playtest it if you search for "chess laboratory" on Google, it's one of the top variants on the website. (have to play it with a friend or a dumb bot) and lmk if you have more ideas or comments!!

i had this idea for a while that I'm not sure if it'll work, so putting it here to get input.

Basically i want to replicate Civ VI battle system where each unit has health and each turn your units attack the enemy's units. Some units are ranged (could be the bishop). Some are siege engines (rooks) which do a lot of damage to the city (king) pawns are like scouts. Bishops could counter knights, knights counter rooks etc... Each has a movement cost, attack damage, health, etc

it requires a lot of work so I have to code it in, can't be built with the editor ATM

lmk what you think