Fist draft of Antiking variant (still being debugged)
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2 | You have a king and an antiking. King must stay away from checks, but antiking must always stay in check.
3 | Antiking captures his own kind.
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5 h3 Specifications
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8 li Chessboard: standard.
9 li Material: additional antiking.
10 li Non-capturing moves: standard.
11 li Special moves: standard.
12 li Captures: special case of antiking (see below).
13 li End of game: Checkmate or anti-checkmate.
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15 h3 Basics
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18 | The additional piece is a royal figure, thus cannot be captured.
19 | It captures the pieces of his color (to help checkmate opponent antiking, but by doing so it also make standard checkmate more difficult...).
20 | It should always remains under check (if it cannot, game is over).
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22 figure.diagram-container
23 .diagram
24 | fen:rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/3A4/8/8/3a4/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR:
25 figcaption Initial position (non-random). 1.Ae5 is forbidden.
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27 h3 End of the game
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29 p There are two ways to win:
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31 li Checkmate opponent king
32 li Anti-checkmate opponent antiking
33 p ...Or maybe do both at the same time?
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35 p Note 1: athough antiking captures his color, it doesn't check his king.
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37 p Note 2: since it would allow a basic tactic (keep antiking touching opponent's king), kings do not attack antikings.
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39 h3 Credits
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42 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/diffobjective.dir/anti-king-chess.html") Antiking chess
43 | on chessvariants.com.