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9x10 Centaur

9x10 Centaur

vintologi_se
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Play for MateStalemate win11th1 | 10=EHMQ

Pawn promotion at rank 9 (not 11) to one of the following pieces

Centaur (king+knight moves), called "general" on this website.

Archbishop (Bishop + knight)

Chancellor (Rook + knight)

Queen (Rook + Bishop)

No castling.

You win if you get stalemated.

The game was tested with Fairy Stockfish to confirm that it wouldn't be too unbalanced, win rate for white seems to be less than 50% when having the same strong engine play both sides.

Note that this variant currently has incorrect automatic draw rules due to chess.com being a bad site you should avoid.

There shouldn't be "draw from insufficient material" unless only 2 kings remain.

If only a single bishop or a single knight remains only the player without a piece should be able to claim automatic draw (since that is the only player who can still win by getting stalemated).

That is not a problem in terms of prolonging games much since you can force a draw pretty quickly (3-fold repetition) if you are the player with the piece left.

50-move rule for draw might not be ideal for this game (at least not regardless of material) since there are endgame that may last longer than that (such as queen & knight or queen & bishop vs centaur). I recommend using a 250-move rule (exceptions are allowed if they don't result in more draws with perfect play regardless of starting position).

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Comments

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VishTheFish771
VishTheFish771

So far from what I've seen, thats not true at all. In the sense that if a variant has intresting gameplay, it DEFINITLY gets accepted. Of course, not all variants are perfect, and thats prbably why some like Triune Wasp and Seargents Labrotory don't get many plaers. Also, some things just dont cater to the audience Chess.com has.

Also, creating custom gamerules sounds like absolute chaos

PoliN999
PoliN999

never EVER forget about mega chess bundle and chess remix

chess remix, u can make ur own peices and ur own board without being reviewed

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