New variant: Gun Chess

At the beginning of the game you give a gun to one of your minor pieces or pawns (can't give it to: queen, rooks and king).

The gun is hidden from the enemy until you shoot it: the enemy has no clue which one of your pieces is armed, could be a random pawn, could be the knight. You also don't know, so you have to be careful.

When you are ready to use it you use a turn to fire. The gun shoots diagonally or orthogonally, jut like a queen moves.

if you hit a piece the piece is wounded and can only move one square at a time (knights start moving like kings, and kings are not affected by movement penalties as they already move 1 square at a time). If you hit a pawn it's gone in one shot.

If you shoot a wounded piece again it's dead and it goes off the board.

If the piece carrying a gun dies from being shot, the gun falls to the floor and can be picked up by whoever lands on the square again. If it's captured then the capturing piece gets the gun.

You win by either capturing the king or shooting it dead.

Variant variant idea: medic Queen. Your Queen can act as medic for the wounded pieces in a square radius. If she stays one full turn next to a wounded piece, the piece recovers fully.

I've already made a demo, you can playtest it on "chess laboratory" (if you Googleit it's one of the first variants on the website)

lmk if you have more ideas or comments!!

I was afraid when I read the title.

or it can be regular chess and the winner gets to... lets just say, eliminate them from the tournament

EDIT: Nvm i forgot you're the creator lol

ooh interesting add it to lichess if possible !!!

idk if u can tho...

hehe @Silent_Entity I'm trying to find new players to play these variants with

@AkshataB I wish we could!! I have so many variant ideas that I'd add on here, basically why I made the chess laboratory website haha

@gumblotto said ^

At the beginning of the game you give a gun to one of your minor pieces or pawns (can't give it to: queen, rooks and king).

The gun is hidden from the enemy until you shoot it: the enemy has no clue which one of your pieces is armed, could be a random pawn, could be the knight. You also don't know, so you have to be careful.

When you are ready to use it you use a turn to fire. The gun shoots dia...

this seems a bit compicated to learn, so i dont think many people will play it. there are some simpler versions of this game, that i call "secret queen chess" where both sides pick a pawn at the start of the game and that pawn will be a queen. the players only know their own secret queen. if u hang ur king the opponent can capture it with their secret queen. there is a lot of strategy to this, like if u can capture a free bishop with ur secret queen, is it worth losing the advantage of them not knowing ur secret queen? there is also bluffs, like taking ur pawn thats protected, and if u take it ur not sure whether u will lose ur piece, or if i was bluffing

TLDR: Secret queen chess is where both sides pick a pawn to be a secret queen, and neither knows the enemys secret queen till they move it.

@rbhoopathi04 play it once and you'll understand it's easy to learn. https://chess-laboratory.com/variant/107