Oh, the least powerful people in society are the ones on the frontlines huh?
And typical lib meritocratic bullshit to suggest some peasant pawn can become royaltyby working really hard, travelling the distance of the board, and become royalty.
“He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.”
Three-player chess. Black and white play as normal. Red starts with two pawns in the middle. Red's pawns move one space orthogonally, capture one space diagonally. If red would capture a pawn, that pawn instead becomes red. If a red pawn would capture a knight, bishop, rook, or queen, red's pawn becomes a piece of that type. Red loses if they run out of stuff. If black or white loses, their pieces stay on the board and stop making moves.
Oh, the least powerful people in society are the ones on the frontlines huh?
And typical lib meritocratic bullshit to suggest some peasant pawn can become royaltyby working really hard, travelling the distance of the board, and become royalty.
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!
Three-player chess. Black and white play as normal. Red starts with two pawns in the middle. Red's pawns move one space orthogonally, capture one space diagonally. If red would capture a pawn, that pawn instead becomes red. If a red pawn would capture a knight, bishop, rook, or queen, red's pawn becomes a piece of that type. Red loses if they run out of stuff. If black or white loses, their pieces stay on the board and stop making moves.
This is why I always open with a knight and a king's pawn. It's important that high ranking pieces should do their share.