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Banzai Chess. Friendly pieces can be pushed and pushed pieces can bounce. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, May 4, 2024 05:10 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 02:49 PM:

It would be an interesting challenge for someone to make an Interactive Diagram for this variant.

It is not the pushing that makes that difficult, but the rule that Pawns have a double-step from the first rank. (That they regain the possibility when returning to 2nd rank can be indicated by making it an ii move.) I suppose it could be done through a morph for the Pawn that forbids access to the enemy half, but then exempt the fmW and fceF moves from that, so that only the fmnD move suffers.

The pushing is not too complex: hop on a piece (d), land on the empty square immediately after (af or yaf), and then step backward for friendly capture with unload (i.e. swap, abud). The bounce rule is implemented (on diagonal moves only) by landing off-board after the hop, returning backward for a second hop, this time hopping off sideways, and swap from there (pyafoabpasabudB).