me and my brother created this variation, long time ago:
the game starts with both players already having two sets of pieces each, one on the board and the other outside, spare pieces, and in your turn you can spawn your spare pieces, instead of moving those is already on the board (like in crazyhouse, but without having to capture it before using.)
Aditional rules:
Pieces can't spawn checking, or defending a check;
Pawns can only spawn on second rank; (at first it could be spawned at any rank but the last 2 or the first, then we changed it because of the promotions)
when the player has two kings on board, one can be captured, altough defend checks is mandatory on both kings.
Only when one of the king is captured you can checkmate the other one, unless the second king havent been spawned , then if you checkmate, you win the game.
Why this variation?
Its more balanced than Crazyhouse; its bigger than chess but is still very similar (unlike others variations); its modern, based on RTS games, like Age of Empires; the positions are very beautifull and tricky; lots of strategical possibilits, its can be easily programed modifing just a bit crasyhouse plataform and its easy to transport to real boards (acctualy we only played it on real board)
details:
The second king is a very strong piece, but also very fragile, so you have to decide carefully when to spawn it!
The board gets all full of pieces, its a madness!
You can have multiple setups of bishops!
Queens are very fragile!
Opening study is almost worthless, like in 960.
Its funny, real funny, and hard.
We call it 64, because there is 64 pieces, but we gave it others names previously, like Chess 2, Imperial Chess, Chess of Empires, Four Kings Chess, Modern Chess...
Thats it! Sorry for my english mistakes!
Thanks for your atention!
the game starts with both players already having two sets of pieces each, one on the board and the other outside, spare pieces, and in your turn you can spawn your spare pieces, instead of moving those is already on the board (like in crazyhouse, but without having to capture it before using.)
Aditional rules:
Pieces can't spawn checking, or defending a check;
Pawns can only spawn on second rank; (at first it could be spawned at any rank but the last 2 or the first, then we changed it because of the promotions)
when the player has two kings on board, one can be captured, altough defend checks is mandatory on both kings.
Only when one of the king is captured you can checkmate the other one, unless the second king havent been spawned , then if you checkmate, you win the game.
Why this variation?
Its more balanced than Crazyhouse; its bigger than chess but is still very similar (unlike others variations); its modern, based on RTS games, like Age of Empires; the positions are very beautifull and tricky; lots of strategical possibilits, its can be easily programed modifing just a bit crasyhouse plataform and its easy to transport to real boards (acctualy we only played it on real board)
details:
The second king is a very strong piece, but also very fragile, so you have to decide carefully when to spawn it!
The board gets all full of pieces, its a madness!
You can have multiple setups of bishops!
Queens are very fragile!
Opening study is almost worthless, like in 960.
Its funny, real funny, and hard.
We call it 64, because there is 64 pieces, but we gave it others names previously, like Chess 2, Imperial Chess, Chess of Empires, Four Kings Chess, Modern Chess...
Thats it! Sorry for my english mistakes!
Thanks for your atention!