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Hands & Brains

I'd like to suggest the addition of a chess variant to lichess: Hands&Brains. The idea is that on each side there's a team of two: one person is the hands, the other the brains. Each move, the ''brain'' tells which piece has to move (so if he says pawn it means any pawn move, king also means castling), and then the hands have to move with the piece mentioned. The communication between the hands & brains are limited to that, any suggestion for a specific move is not allowed. For the rest, normal chess rules apply At our local club, we've had quite a lot of fun with it and we reckoned it might be fun online as well if it could be implemented here.
I'd highly appreciate a feature like this. I myself thought about a variant of 2vs2 in that players can't communicate but take turns. I played this with friends (1 beginner and 1 stronger player being in each team) and it was hilariously awesome.
Or when you do it alone, stockfish could be the brain!
Not sure if it is technically possible, but sounds really interesting!
Wait a second @Sungjin I think you came up with a brilliant idea right there. A training variant where the computer suggests the piece to move and you have to find the square for it.

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