chess power creep ideas

[Oglemi]

Chess needs some RNG so before every move you have to roll a die to see how many squares your pieces can move, pawns, knight, and king can also move multi-squares

 

[Yung Dramps]

You can now bring a gun and shoot the opposing player if the game isn't going the way you like

 

[BIG ASHLEY]

You can now bring a gun and shoot the opposing player if the game isn't going the way you like

you can do this anyway tbf

 

[Low-Key]

can we make the game like this

 

[Let's go shuckles]

I think chess needs evasion. When one of your pieces would be taken, roll a dice and if you roll a 6, your piece is not taken, your opponent's piece does not move from its original space and your opponent's turn is over.

 

[gvmgvm40]

Executive director of “Chess 2” here. We realized the original game wasn’t slow enough so in Chess 2 each player now has eight more pawns in place of their rooks, knights, bishops, queen and king

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsany's_chess

this is an actual chess variant, also called horde chess: one side has normal pieces, one side has 32/36 pawns. you can play it on lichess and chess.com and stuff

 

[Magcargo]

Lowkey, one mechanic I wish chess had was something similar to Fire Emblem positional assist where you can use Reposition, Draw Back, Shove, etc. to have a piece help move your ally pieces as well. Probably wouldn't work as well in practice, but still feels like a cool idea lol

 

[BIG ASHLEY]

hi folxs! here is a funny image i saw on the 'net

 

[UberSkitty]

make chess a gacha game where you can use irl money to buy checkers which can be used upgrade your pieces. the chess pieces are given anime eyes, colorful hair and bikinis that can all be customized using the checkers. also every time you move a piece it talks about how cute and smart you are and that you should buy more checkers.

reference art

 

[R8]

the pawn has so much usage that it rises to OU and thus cannot be used in the chess metagame anymore

 

[Troubadour1]

make chess a gacha game where you can use irl money to buy checkers which can be used upgrade your pieces. the chess pieces are given anime eyes, colorful hair and bikinis that can all be customized using the checkers. also every time you move a piece it talks about how cute and smart you are and that you should buy more checkers.

reference art

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Fire Emblem: Heroes already exists unfortunately

 

[Fishy]

let pawns ride the knights but only if they're side by side

knights can now GALLOP or TROT across the board depending on how fast the pawn wants to go

if the pawn dismounts into the queen, he drop-kicks her

 

[fancykingkirby]

 

[BestDatrix]

Instead of powercreep, why not nerf a few pieces?
Bishops now cannot move in the vicinity of pawn (children).

 

[Voltage]

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[Mechalico]

fun fact: there's actually a board game based on the queen's gambit

 

[Shandeur]

If you flip the board whilst in checkmate, you instantly win.

 

[dingbat]

pawns can capture en passant from anywhere and against any piece