The (old) Lake
Post-acception revision: #1873
If this gets accepted, may I request that the alfils be replaced by ferzes? This edit is purely for aesthetics and will have no effect on gameplay.
Post-acception note: Fastest acception (?)! UR time: 1 week.
Clear out the board to activate your long-ranged pieces and protect your royal wazir from the Dangerous Diagonals whilst moving the duck to spoil your opponent's plans. Win by checkmate or hill if the game lasts that long.
Unlike Amazon Jungle and other dead sea variants, the blue pieces don't actually give you points. They are there to hinder your long-ranged pieces, so you have to clear some of them out, while letting your wazir hide in the rest.
Fixes I made:
GAMES LAST TOO LONG: I gave each player 2 extra pawns and two more pieces, along with 7 lives, a weaker royal (mainly to prevent hill rushes), and KotH
PROMOTION LOGIC: Promotion rank is changed to 6, so that the promotion rank is closer, but not so close that you can promote 8 pawns in 16 moves (although some people sacrifice pawns for lives, it's a unique idea).
MINOR PIECE IS HARD TO PUNISH: I made this game more positional than materialistic. If you have a good position but lack pieces, there are still plenty of opportunities for you to win.
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…YEARS later…
its illegal
by that I mean not on any normal chess.com games
My strat to post your own is play 8 of the games, then play the 9th game the next day, and then submit
You could copy this strat too, but:
1. Don’t forget to give credit
2. Don’t forget, you must have at most 1 unique user, if you want to, if not, then keep playing different users for the test games