I got an idea for a new type of chess mode :D It would be Random Chess which means players will get random pieces.
Some limitations should be considered like only 2 queens allowed...
Sounds like Fischer Random aka Chess 960.
One of the best variations of chess... but it already exists.
@Dionysus_godNo, I think he means you get random pieces not random positions for the pieces.
Either way, this sounds like a horrible idea considering not all pieces are worth the same value.
Oh wow.
That's kind of insane.
I'm not sure how your variant would play in terms of fairness and fun, but you could try it out by building a board using the board editor (
http://en.lichess.org/editor) and playing 'from position' with a friend (by clicking 'continue from here'). You could perhaps roll a dice to decide the starting piece for each square :P.
Well, perhaps it could be random pieces, but each person gets the same. Kind of like how both players get the same positions in Chess 960.
I don't see how people can have the audacity to create new variants that are based on 960. Fischer was one of the best chess players, and he thought of Fischer Random aka Chess 960.
You can't refine or perfect 960. One 960 variant is enough.
Well, seems like he did. Let me copypaste that wikipedia for you "Chess960 is a variant of Shuffle Chess, which had been suggested as early as 1792[3] with games played as early as 1842.[4] Fischer's modification "imposes certain restrictions, arguably an improvement on the anarchy of the fully randomized game in which one player is almost certain to start at an advantage".[5] Fischer started work on his new version of chess after the 1992 return match with Boris Spassky. The result was the formulation of the rules of Fischerandom Chess in September 1993, introduced formally to the chess public on June 19, 1996 in Buenos Aires, Argentina."
Different variants/modifications can have different goals. This variant doesn't really require any changes to try out on lichess to see how it plays out. One could maybe make a simple script to generate the start positions.
Okay, so Fischer took something raw and silly and refined it.
Now we have people trying to take his refined version and make it silly again.
"Now we have people trying to take his refined version and make it silly again."
They aren't doing anything to his variant, rather making a new one.
