Colorful Osmosis Chess
Colorful Osmosis Chess uses four basic piece types (plus Kings and Pawns. Two basic pieces are colorbound and two are colorswiching. Of the colorbound pieces, on is a slider and the other is a leaper; likewise for the colorswiching pieces. Basic pieces can create compond pieces by capturing enemy basic pieces, in some games this process is called absorbtion, here I use the synonym osmosis.
Setup
From left to right on the first rank are White's Harvestman, Knight, Camel, Bishop, King, Camel, Bishop, Knight, and Harvestman. On the second rank are nine Pawns, Black's army is placed rotationally symmeric on the eighth and ninth ranks. Because of the limitations of the Diagram Designer, the Harvestman is represented as the Rook icon but it has a different move.
Pieces
- King moves as an FIDE King but cannot castle.
- Pawn moves as an FIDE Pawn including en passant. Pawns promote on the enemy Pawn line to any basic piece.
Basic Pieces
- Bishop moves as an FIDE Bishop. The colorbound slider.
- Knight moves as an FIDE Knight. The colorswitching leaper.
- Camel moves two squares straight a one square diagonally or vice versa. The colorbound leaper.
- Harvestman move one square straight the continues as a Crooked Bishop (https://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/crookedbishop.html). The colorswitching slider.
Compound Pieces
This 'user submitted' page is a collaboration between the posting user and the Chess Variant Pages. Registered contributors to the Chess Variant Pages have the ability to post their own works, subject to review and editing by the Chess Variant Pages Editorial Staff.
By Michael Nelson.
Last revised by Michael Nelson.
Web page created: 2023-10-27. Web page last updated: 2024-01-21