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xkcd #3139: Chess Variant

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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.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3139/

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[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the answer to that question will be clear once you play test it

You'd probably want both varients, though I suspect being able to block a queen attack by moving a tile would bring more tatically nuance.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be hard to build a paper board and play on that.

[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

I'm going to put on together once I have time See how that goes, I don't have anyone to trial it against though but I'll put a Lemmy post up about it