Thank for you for posting your variant to variants.world!

However, the variant plays exactly as standard Chess except for the fact that the white and black knights can jump over the invisible walls (which, incidentally, not one player did in your testing games). There is no incentive to go for Blue and Green, as the player will most definitely lose material while getting nothing, e.g. points, in return. Even if a zombie checkmated another zombie (which also never happened in your testing games), not much changes to the strategy as knights are usually not placed towards the edges of the board and the zombie's long-range pieces will likely guard any entry points.

We also notice that in the testing games, you ask your opponents to checkmate as fast as possible, seemingly in a rush to submit your variant. We encourage creators to make well-thought-out design choices that contribute tactical and strategical variety to the game constructively, test their games extensively, and submit the best possible rendition of their variant to the testing team for review.

We recommend reading most of the forums in the "Creating a Variant" section of the Custom Variants Club Directory, using the New Position Workshop Thread, and reading the following forums:

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/how-not-to-make-a-variant

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/how-to-make-new-variants-accepted

Chess with TV

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