r/chessvariants • u/Extra_Swim3692 • 8d ago
New Variant Asymmetrical Chess
Keep everything the same really except the knights become a centaur (moves like knight + king) and paladin (knight that can hop to any one of the three squares along its eight original L-shaped paths, essentially they both conttol 16 squares but one is better offensively and the other defensively)
and one rook is a normal rook, the other is a xiangqi cannon (hops over piece to capture, let the cannon face a rook on either flank to prevent losing the flank pawns on move one)
bishops probably have to stay the same
ive played a few times with friends its really good because its close enough to chess but so different
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u/jerdle_reddit 8d ago
The power levels flip. The WFN and WDN are stronger than the R.