A very unique variation and a fun one. A friend and me tried this IRL (we used a shogi board, a shogi piece as the offering, checkers as pawns, pawns as shamans, bishops as quetzals and queens as jaguars). We also tried buffing some pieces. It was more aggressive but it kinda worked. Quetzal: gave it also king movement, so it always have some movement option. Jaguar: changed it jumping movement as jumping like a chu shogi lion, to any square surrounding its one step movement (but no double movement). Shaman: for this one, we got inspired by janggi and how pieces change their movement inside the palace. Basically, fitting their role as religious figures, shamans also had horizontal movement on the temple (bordering the offering). Also, they could jump over their controller's (but not the opponent's) offering, to the other side of the temple, but as a non capturing movement only.
Fun fact: there are only two squares where a divine king has full range of movement; those squares where both second-from-the-left and second-from-the-right pawns start.
After getting my ass thoroughly kicked by Fairy Stockfish I can confirm this game works really well, good job with the design! And also, considering Mesoamerica is one of the two civilisations of the new world an Andean chess would be an interesting concept at some point
shouldve added a chess piece that can spawn on the square it sits a pile of rice equal in number to two raised to the power of that squares file multiplied by its rank
That would be the best fucking thing everrr, i love tamerlane chess too but i couldn't find a decent website to play either human or IA. Pychess you should make this possible
It's likely the second most powerful piece in the game... Values like "4" and comparing to bishop and knight are meaningless since it's not the same game as chess.
cool variant. somebody can make a variant of this and make the fish into a leviathan and give it a movement/attack range. not just a useless blocking brick.
He was referring to the King's value. It's infinite in that if you loose the king, you lose the game. Another way of saying it would be that the king is priceless. You can't put a value on its worth since its worth everything.
A very unique variation and a fun one.
A friend and me tried this IRL (we used a shogi board, a shogi piece as the offering, checkers as pawns, pawns as shamans, bishops as quetzals and queens as jaguars).
We also tried buffing some pieces. It was more aggressive but it kinda worked.
Quetzal: gave it also king movement, so it always have some movement option.
Jaguar: changed it jumping movement as jumping like a chu shogi lion, to any square surrounding its one step movement (but no double movement).
Shaman: for this one, we got inspired by janggi and how pieces change their movement inside the palace. Basically, fitting their role as religious figures, shamans also had horizontal movement on the temple (bordering the offering). Also, they could jump over their controller's (but not the opponent's) offering, to the other side of the temple, but as a non capturing movement only.
Sweet! Been waiting on this video to hit youtube. One of my fav variants.
Fun fact: there are only two squares where a divine king has full range of movement; those squares where both second-from-the-left and second-from-the-right pawns start.
What a fantastic job you are doing for chess and ancient games in general. Thankyou so much. Your site is brilliant.
Very well-researched and well-designed game
After getting my ass thoroughly kicked by Fairy Stockfish I can confirm this game works really well, good job with the design! And also, considering Mesoamerica is one of the two civilisations of the new world an Andean chess would be an interesting concept at some point
The history lesson in the beginning was very interesting
shouldve added a chess piece that can spawn on the square it sits a pile of rice equal in number to two raised to the power of that squares file multiplied by its rank
What’s all the chess variants that appear in the map at 0:59
Would you like to add Tamerlane chess into pychess?
That would be the best fucking thing everrr, i love tamerlane chess too but i couldn't find a decent website to play either human or IA. Pychess you should make this possible
The quetzal is cute like HOW
I thought it was a real variant have you covered chess 2 by oats
How is this not a "real variant"?
What's the value of the Quetzal? Do you estimate that it's about a 4, or is it less than a bishop or knight?
It's likely the second most powerful piece in the game... Values like "4" and comparing to bishop and knight are meaningless since it's not the same game as chess.
@@pychess OK, thanks so much
cool variant. somebody can make a variant of this and make the fish into a leviathan and give it a movement/attack range. not just a useless blocking brick.
The fish is the most important part of the game.
"Every major form of chess has some sort of knight...," There's got to be something like a knight." Chu shogi players hearing this lol.
Chu Shogi is a variant of Shogi though
the king can never altermate the other king
wdym king is infinite?
He was referring to the King's value. It's infinite in that if you loose the king, you lose the game. Another way of saying it would be that the king is priceless. You can't put a value on its worth since its worth everything.
Do you still play these? Even online?
Yes, of course!
@@tamasbajusz3151 where ? Is it free to play. Thanks.
@@meltz44gamer Please check the video description for the link
kning
Me when 1. pQa6
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