FOOD FIGHT
***UNDER CONSTRUCTION***
Welcome to the game of carefully strategized mess-making!
There's a (very) slowly-growing trend for fairy chess pieces named for food items. So, why not get them all together for a collective battle?
Pieces
The pieces are as follows:
Chef: The Royal piece for each side. The Chef moves one space diagonally, or one or two spaces sideways.
Cantaloupe: Leaps (1,3) or (3,4).
Doughnut: Leaps two spaces orthogonally, or (1,2) like a Knight.
Falafel: Like the Modern Elephant, moves one space or leaps two spaces diagonally.
Meatball: Moves to any adjacent space, leaps two spaces orthogonally or diagonally, or leaps (1,2) in a Knight's forwardmost moves.
Mushroom: Moves diagonally backward one space, leaps (1,2) forward or backward like a Narrow Knight, or leaps (1,3) sideways and forwards like a Camel.
Pancake: Moves to any adjacent space; or makes a series of two or more (1,2) leaps in a straight line (like a Nightrider) provided one of those leaps goes over an obstacle.
Pepperoni: Moves one space forward, backward, or diagonally; or leaps two spaces either directly sideways or diagonally forward.
Rhubarb: Slides orthogonally like a Rook, or diagonally up to three spaces.
Rutabaga: Slides diagonally like a Bishop, or orthogonally one or two spaces.
Sausage: Moves one space left, right, or diagonally; or leaps forward or backward either (1,2) like a Narrow Knight, or three spaces orthogonally.
Waffle: Moves one space orthogonally, or leaps two spaces diagonally.
Fish Pawn: Moves one space forward or backward without capturing, or one space forward diagonally to capture. May make an initial move of two spaces forward.
Notes
Most of the pieces in this game were invented by Ralph Betza, generally as illustrations of ideas. The Meatball, Pepperoni, and Sausage were invented by John Lawson for The Pizza Kings, a setup for Chess With Different Armies.
The Chef and Cantaloupe are my own inventions. The Chef was created for both this game and Dealer's Chess; the Canteloupe was somewhat as a joke, being a combination of Camel and Antelope, with the name coming as a portmanteau of the other two.
(I'm uncertain of the origin of the Fish Pawn.)
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By Bob Greenwade.
Last revised by Bob Greenwade.
Web page created: 2024-01-26. Web page last updated: 2023-11-25