I’ve wondered how chess might play out with an optional Joker piece. Each side gets one Joker, to substitute in place of one of their Pawns. The Joker can move one square in any direction like the King, but cannot take out any pieces. No other pieces can take out the Joker either, except the opponent’s King. Also, the Joker cannot be promoted to any other piece.
The Joker is just there as a silly and annoying distraction to block opponent pieces LOL!
The Joker can indeed take out one opponent piece, but it’s only the opponent’s Joker.
But being that they’re Jokers and not even Pawns, they’re too stupid to fight, so it becomes a suicide move, eliminating both Jokers from the board at once…
Unfortunately, I don’t have any physical chess set to easily modify that way, but if I did, it could be as simple as taking one pawn from each side and painting a dot of red nail polish on the top, to indicate it’s an (optional) Joker piece, depending how the players care to play.
I also only know one other person in my area that used to be around to play chess with, but I haven’t seen him in a couple months.
I’ve wondered how chess might play out with an optional Joker piece. Each side gets one Joker, to substitute in place of one of their Pawns. The Joker can move one square in any direction like the King, but cannot take out any pieces. No other pieces can take out the Joker either, except the opponent’s King. Also, the Joker cannot be promoted to any other piece.
The Joker is just there as a silly and annoying distraction to block opponent pieces LOL!
That’s a very cool idea.
Ah, if I may add another optional rule…
The Joker can indeed take out one opponent piece, but it’s only the opponent’s Joker.
But being that they’re Jokers and not even Pawns, they’re too stupid to fight, so it becomes a suicide move, eliminating both Jokers from the board at once…
What you think?
Kinda similar to a duck piece that can be placed anywhere after your turn, can’t be captured, but will move again in 1 turn.
Well… try it out and tell us how it went?
Unfortunately, I don’t have any physical chess set to easily modify that way, but if I did, it could be as simple as taking one pawn from each side and painting a dot of red nail polish on the top, to indicate it’s an (optional) Joker piece, depending how the players care to play.
I also only know one other person in my area that used to be around to play chess with, but I haven’t seen him in a couple months.
Sigh, maybe someday…