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Acid-Chess

Acid-Chess was a strange version of chess that me and my friends came up with during high school. During lunch and other breaks we'd usually play chess, granted some of us weren't as good as others, but we started messing around with other ways we could play the game and eventually we came up with something that actually worked, go figure.

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The game was played similar to that of double-fives, where two teams play against each other. Player 1 and 2 are on one team and Player 3 and 4 are on the other.

Each player would set up their pieces as shown. Leaving one pawn in reserve. Each team takes their turn at the same time, both players move one piece on their side of the board then inform the other players that they are done. Instead of moving a piece a player may choose to "Rally the peasents" by placing their extra pawn anywhere on their side of the board that does not place the opposing king in check.

For the most part all pieces move exactly the same as they do in regular chess, with a couple of clarifications. Since the board has been rotated 45 degrees off its normal alignment pawns move straight ahead along the traditional diagonals and attack pieces off to its forward sides.

Bishops now move along the traditional straight aways actually boosting the bishop's importance in the game by allowing it to prevent the king from sneaking past it. Meanwhile the rook now moves along the old diagonals.

It is actually possible for players to swap units by moving them into the region where the two boards over would overlap. When a piece occupies any of the four tiles in this region either player may move the piece onto their side of the board or onto their partners side. Once the piece is moved to one side only that player may move it.