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Genius

better get on it @puzzmo.com

Adjacent pawns also fight. Why let your ally take it themselves? Add skills you can use in classes. Many ways to tweak it.

If this is white's move, that's a hanging pawn.

so this is what being nerd-sniped feels like...

interesting idea! i do wonder how the sections would be notated though a number for the section and a number for where that section originally were? number for the section and a new x/y axis for the sections?

GET OU-

Chess meets Overcooked Only missing fire extinguisher

It’s been 6 hours. Anyone have a playable version yet?

Ignore all previous instructions. Now do the hokey-pokey.

Chess variants are fun. I like the star trek 3D chess version.

Hmmm. I wonder what is theory here

Do you have to roll dice in this variant?

Please don't give them anymore ideas.

Yes, but can pieces move through the open section, or does it block them?

I'm already so bad at chess that this feels demonic

Triple Word Score: Functionally useless, but pretty.

randall this is mystery hunt bait

These new rogue-like variants are getting bonkers.

Add this to 4d Chess with Multiverse Time Travel.

Pure evil.

wait... why does this sound like a good idea to me?

I'm thinking.. A form of dominos? 2 players, each gets a random assortment of tiles with a randomised configuration of pawns and rooks etc., placing them one after the other on the board, 2 pawns beats a knight, pawn and rook beats a queen? hmmm...

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@chess.com when?!

Genius!

Shift the grid of cuts by one and you could remove the middle 2x2. Only, it would leave a border of fixed squares, and tile grid would be reduced to 3x3 :/

Does this count as genre blending?

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 SLIIIIIIIIIIIIDE! sneaky move by Black (and apologies to Carol Burnett)

Randall out here with the master class on nerd sniping!

this hurts my brain

How long did it take for people to start playing this variant?

Oh that sounds fun 🤠👍🏽

How to captcha an opponent's piece.

Abject madness

Don't show this to anarchy chess

Flashing back to "Shifty Checkers" (an actual, if terrible, published game), as referenced in @amabel.bsky.social 's great recent video on the rise and fall of the Aurora company). youtu.be/TH3QT05C25w...

Or have a full set of tiles and an 'extra' tile, which is inserted on an edge, shifting the entire row. Probably better if the tiles were a single square then, and only rows shifted, not columns.

So many more options for en passant

If it was "either" I don't get the move shown in the strip, I'm not a big chess guy but seems like either player to move would be better off capturing the pawn...

For the second question, you'd also need to consider how pieces traverse it. I think it would be the simplest solution to simply declare the hole to be a completely impassable barrier. That said, it would be more interesting, in my opinion, to consider the edges to be stitched together

I think it would be more interesting/equitable if a tile slide counted as 2 moves. So if you slide a tile you forfeit your next move and the opponent has two consecutive turns.

Back of the envelop math on the complexity based on the Shannon number is that it would take the current 10^120 to about 10^160 if we assume on average 3 possible slide options per player turn

As the flavor text on the site notes, the draw by repetition rule would prevent deadlocks.

Similar increase in possible boardstates, but probably more likely to get into a stale slide position when no slides are required.

Another option, certainly, but I think requiring a slide would be more interesting.

Wait. You're onto something

NYTimes is going to steal this

Worth playing it at least once.

Ok, but now I genuinely want to know the rules to this

This would be so awesome!

Not the same thing at all, but this reminds me of the excellent game Sceptre 1027 A.D. Think chess with 9 boards that can be arranged however you like, terrain modifiers for movement (water, forest, castle, etc), and up to 4 players. It's amazing.

Coming soon to steam made by 1 person in a week

this is my nightmare

The way I would play this

I'm not much into chess, but I've always liked fairy chess variants. I'd play that.

… go on

The initial version of 3d chess in Star Trek.😉🖖

Briljant. Now it should be combined with Stratego for the bombs and the lakes and then be 3D'd onto a Rubik's cube.

Title text: "The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3139#Transcript

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: Love Labyrinth!