Recalled old ideas for chess game variants from patton:
*Samurai Chess: extra 2 pieces per player Suma. Pawns attack reverse diagonals. Knight is now called Ninja and can return to last position after an attack.
* other variants -king can ride horse, king-queen swap teleport, king to other side for Excalibur King Arthur attacks like queens- no move. warrchess two sets arranged in corners symmetrically entire board is filled with pieces at game start.
*Health Chess the checkers are used as health tokens based ontile color and side. Black loses a token(black checker) when moved to red squares. White loses a token(red checker) when moved to black squares. Recover a lost token on enemy capture.
*Also recalled ChessQuest idea components: a event book, suit compass spinner, standard chess board, standard deck of cards. Suits are directions on the gameboard north, south, west, east Spinner decides. Cards are dealt like poker games a player picks movement card and event cards to look up in eventbook red/black changes event. Chess Pieces represent players checkers represent life points and moving off the edge results in character death.
*card variants new regal suit 5 suit deck. (Feister).
*Wishing well solitare game. -for another post.
note some ideas here were co-created by Thelma Feister and and guy whose name I forgot while at patton state….