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Here at request of my friends is Lief. A Chess variant that is so good, it dares to replace chess itself!
The biggest difference is that you get to place all your pieces in any pattern you want at the beginning of the game, allowing you to creatively build whatever structure you want! It is far deeper than chess!
This is a tutorial covering the rules, but they are also here in time-stamps. It took many years to develop in my spare time, and is polished to perfection and simplicity. Every rule is there for a reason.
Rules:
Pieces move as in chess, except the Queen, which is now a second King.
At the beginning of the game (White first) players declare what their Queen will be. The Queen is a second king but can be replaced with a Pawn, Knight, Bishop or Rook.
Players will then decide to play in either Day mode or Night mode.
Day mode: players take it in turn to deploy their pieces 1 at a time in their deployment zone (first 3 rows).
Night mode: players deploy their whole army within their deployment zone, but cannot see their opponents board.
Either way, White moves first.
To promote a pawn a pawn must already be on the last row of the board. It takes a 'move' to promote. The pawn may promote to any dead piece, except a queen/king.
To win, Kill and/or Checkmate the Monarchy (King and Queen, kill one, kill/checkmate other. 'check' does not exist, only checkmate/killing).
The game variant 'Lief' was made by Jon Knight. C C by 4.0 2008
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Tabletop Simulator is the game/program used. It's available on steam.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/286...
0:45 pawn movement.
1:13 Knight movement
1:39 Bishop Movement
1:55 Rook Movement
2:11 King Movement and Checkmate
2:29 Queen movement and Potential Replacement
3:26 Lief and Deployment-Zones
3:14 First choice of the game, Queen: to swap or not to swap.
3:33 Second choice:Daytime mode or Night time mode.
3:40 Day time mode
3:51 Night time mode.
4:04 Day time mode example (queens is kept as a monarchs)
6:59 Day time mode example begins. (white to move, and rule clarification)
8:12 Night time mode example (queens are kept as monarchs)
9:07 Night time mode example begins. (white to move)
10:03 Queen swapping example (black has swapped queen for bishop)
10:28 Queen swapping example (white has swapped queen for knight)
11:10 Promoting a pawn changes.
12:34 Deployment example. (white swapped for a pawn, black swapped for a bishop)
13:38 Lief vs Chess example.
16:09 some final deployment examples and final words of good will and love, for my game. Lief.
P.S. thanks to all my friends who believed in me making this obsession of mine though the years.
Music is from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LM3...
