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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Slender Chess!

Eh, I'm not doing anything else, and this idea struck me as awesome and/or amusing while I was waking up around noonish today, so have a non-standard update!

Slenderman Chess

Pieces

Black starts with only one piece, representing Slendy - the queen.

White starts with the normal selection of pieces, and goes first always.

You will want surplus pawns of both colors.

Goals

The goal of the black player is to eliminate all white pieces from the playing field, while the goal of the white player is to prevent the black queen from being able to move (I'm not sure this is actually possible and would require playtesting, which I don't have the patience to attempt I think this might actually be only possible if you fill up the entire board a la Reversi with the amended pawn rules).

Rules 

This game is played with a standard chess board, (with as many pawns of either color as necessary: use pennies or something if you run out of pawns) and all rules not explicitly outlined here are borrowed directly from Chess (the, uh, non-Slendyful version).

The game does not end if the king is captured; black does not even start with a king.

The black queen (and only the black queen) can, at any time, teleport to any location on the playing field not currently under attack by a white piece (Slendy cannot move into check; it's called Offscreen Teleportation for a reason.) However, the black queen is not required to move out of check, and is allowed to capture white pieces that are not currently in a place that would otherwise be under attack.

When the black player takes a piece, remove the white piece from the playing field and replace it with a corresponding black piece (exceptions noted below), then move the new black piece to a new location of the black player's choosing that is not currently occupied.

When the white player takes a piece, remove the black piece from the playing field and replace it with a corresponding white piece (exceptions noted below), then move the new white piece to a new location of the white player's choosing that is not currently occupied.

If the black queen is captured, do not replace it with a white queen, but instead move it back to its starting point, instantly capturing any white piece occupying that space. Any black piece occupying that space will move instantly to a place of the black player's choosing.

Since the white player can't regenerate the white queen via normal methods, if the white queen is captured, instead replace it with a black pawn. The white queen can only be regenerated by a white pawn making it to the other end of the playing field. This feat can only be performed if the white queen is no longer on the playing field.





Soooo ... what do you think? I think it sounds like it might be amusing anyway - a cross between Chess and Reversi with a dash of Cosmic Horror. Feel free to adopt it and apply your own house rules!

4 comments:

  1. Sooo waaaaaait a tic. You only use pawns for white? You say a normal set, but this is kinda confusing. Maybe it's because it's past midnight here. I dunno.
    But it sounds awesome. Next time I can actually find a chess set I will totally abuse it. c:

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  2. Yay! First comment EVER!

    You can use the full assortment of pieces for white, but the queen, when captured, is instead replaced by pawns. (Two black queens seemed ... excessive.) And then you capture the pawns -back- ... so yeah.

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  3. Ahaha, comment virginity, it is mine~

    For white is it the standard amount of pieces? I know I'm making this too confusing for myself, but I love crazy games that people make up.
    I'll update you at some point if it turns out as awesome as it sounds. c:

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  4. Hehe. Obby.

    Yeah, white starts with the standard amount of pieces in the standard order. Then, after a few have been taken ... I'm toying with the idea that all of the pieces the black queen takes end up as pawns to be recaptured.

    Thinking on it I'm not sure there's yet a way to actually add more pawns after all though. :\ Because in order to get your queen back you have to take a pawn through a suicide run - provided it lives, you still have the same overall number of pieces.

    Ah well, even without that it should be interesting IMO.

    Thanks for letting me know!

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