Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Abdul-Rahman Sibahi wrote on Mon, Jan 29, 2007 11:58 PM UTC:I have this idea of a CV, I like to call 'The Madness of Kings Chess'. The idea of the game is to give the King an extra 'power' controled by the opponent. So that the players not only should pay attention to what the opponent is doing, but they should also see what their own King is doing. --- The power of choice is a lame Alibaba, limiting the opponent's part of the King to a quarter of the board, and easing the ability to corner the king somewhere. --- As for opening setups .. I think that all setups are playable, Orthodox, 960, Fortress. I would prefer using some diagonal variant arrangement like in Legan's Chess because is already cornered in that setup. Opening setup of choice krbp4/rqnp4/nbpp4/pppp4/4PPPP/4PPBN/4PNQR/4PBRK The setup of Diamond Chess by A. K. Porterfield Rynd. Pawns move and promote as they do in diagonal variants. --- Other rules, there is no castling, naturally. Er .. the King may capture FRIENDLY, NOT HOSTILE pieces with his ALibaba move. That is: if White moves Black's king he may capture a Black piece, and vice versa. The King MAY place himself in check when moved by the opponent, but NOT checkmate. It may not move in check or be exposed to check when played by his owner. --- Switching: I considered the idea of using Switching Chess rules for this game. The king never switches, but the other pieces switch with each other. I am not sure hiw this will work out. --- So, what do you think about this variant? Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Madness of Kings does not match any item.