Comments by DougChatham
'Bland Chess' seems to me to be an unfortunate name. If Taxicab weren't taken, I'd suggest 'Taxicab Chess' since the rules remind me of taxicab geometry. Unfortunately, I don't have a better alternative. ('SNEW Chess'? 'Straight and Narrow Chess'?)
Is there a variant where the pieces are only permitted to move to, say, white squares? (I suppose there have to be an extra rule to force the White King off its black square so it could be threatened.)
See this page for a description of what a 'mutator' is.
Deposable queen (Cinderella? Were-Queen?): If a promoted Queen crosses or lands on its side's second rank, it turns back into a pawn.
The old CVP-linked pentagonal game that you mentioned, is it Webball, which is played on a dodecahedron?
Read the description of the knight's move again. It's one horizontally or vertically, and then one diagonally. The 'one and two' description you're thinking of doesn't mention diagonal movement -- it's one vertically, then two horizontally or it's one horizontally, then two vertically.
Both descriptions get the knight to the same places.
Werewolf: Moves like a Man except on moves 10,20,etc, during which they move like some monstrously powerful piece, an Ubi-ubi, maybe?
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Rich, if you'll look at the page Joe mentioned, you'll see 'You are viewing ratings based on a wildcard that includes all Chess variants played on Game Courier. This is not as meaningful as ratings based on a single variant, which you may find by clicking on the Ratings link above the board in a preset.'
3.9Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The king is said to be 'in check' if it is attacked by one or more of the opponent's pieces, even if such pieces are constrained from moving to that square because they would then leave or place their own king in check. No piece can be moved that will either expose the king of the same colour to check or leave that king in check.
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If you're going to divide pieces into their directional components, I suggest that you also make the captures kamikaze.