Landscape Chess
I had a weekend of chess. Saturday, a couple of friends came over and we played some games. Next day my sister's family came, my nephew wanted to play chess too. So we had a few games. Then our young daughter wanted to play and we had a good mess around, laughing our heads off as we came up with crazy ideas for new rules and ways that the pieces can move. Then out of the chaos some order arose and we found a fun new way to play chess. Originally it had another name, but after doing some research we found another chess variant had that name. So to make this variant unique we decided on naming it Landscape Chess. At first we were somewhat disheartened to find somebody had already created a chess variant using a diagonal board, although we initially guessed someone probably would have. However, the other variants all seemed to muddy the beauty of chess. We think this variant complements chess, and even more so it actually brings something new to explore. How to play Landscape Ch...