Chess vs Checkers (The Game) 

Love this! I've tried playing chess where every turn you roll a dice to determine if you're playing with chess rules or checkers. The knight/pawn/whathaveyou would stay as the same piece, it would only suddenly move like a checkers piece. Until it didn't. Having multiple kings also got pretty whacky.

My idea for solving the "back rank problem" is just to move the checkers pieces one row back to start. That also has the benefit of the checkers starting position looking a little more like the chess one. Maybe you could even do normal checkers starting position plus a full back row, which would just about equalize your quick "material value" calculation.

Another possible solution I thought of for the edge problem was allowing checkers to bounce off the edge

BTW, to fix the back rank problem, American Checkers is the only version of the game that doesn't allow capturing backwards, whereas the Polish, Russian, And international versions do. You wouldn't technically be changing the rules and it would completely solve that issue.

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Just found this and honestly I'm shocked you aren't more well known.

I was thinking instead I'm adding a checker can capture off the edge by "bouncing" to the next diagonal of the same color. I think it keeps the spirit but I don't know if it solves the king issue. It has the benefit of being able to be played irl tho. Edit: I also like the idea of solving the material problem by giving the checkers side a set amount of "pre-kinged" pieces. This provides more mobility options but also the asymmetry means specific pieces are targets for capture and kinging isn't as essential for checkers.

By far the simplest fix is to say that chess pieces has to respect checkers rules in capturing checkers. This greatly reduces the threat posed by early queen attacks because you can often force the queen to take a defended checker, since captures are forced. This also provides a way to checkmate, albeit not a particularly easy way. Simply draw the king out with a sacrifice or two, then attack the king with a defended checker. The king is not able to move and is in check. That's mate. Even if it can take 4 checkers to execute. If we want it to be slightly easier for the checkers player, just say that stalemate is checkmate. That means you can checkmate the king by offering a defended piece for capture. It's still possible for the king to hide in the corners and force you to use 3 pieces on this maneuver but not easily forced unless they castled. There is a real potential for a couple of checkers kings to stop a chess king from reaching those corners.

1:37 the king is worth ♾️

I have a idea if the chess pieces are still dominating make it so the normal checkers can take backwards but they can’t move backwards normally

1 balance I can think of is either A, not allowing chess queens and rooks on the back rank, or letting normal chess pieces go and capture back and instead kings can move and capture orthogonally as well.

Another solution for the checkers edge is allow them to xapture just 2 ahead

make it so you can choose the gamemode against ai

This is actually super cool! I hope more people see this and try it out!

"Im playing chess while your playing checkers" is the best way to start a video

Maybe you could make it where the checker pieces are able to capture horizontally. That could prevent the backlining from the chess player and the checker piece would still stay on their original tile color.

So, how will the chess pieces ever capture checkers that are hiding along the edge?

What about the checkers don't have to have a space to capture unless it's not against the wall

To make it fairer you should allow checkers to move backwards and vertically

To solve the backrank issue just have the upgraded variant 2nd row watch the backrow so that at least you have the ability to get rid of the pieces that try to go against checkers flaw against chess

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Chess would demolish checkers if you dont change the rules somehow because: Chess has more pieces so if you watch out that they cant jump often then you could just trade everything the points like you said And also the checkers have around 18 points that you can use because of the edge However im surprised that you made it this good I miself tryed balancing these games one time and i had to add a new checker that can do the same however he does it straight

Woah this looks amazing I wanna try it out

Great video. Quick rules question: are checkers still forced to take if they can?

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Ok but then that just makes it so chess pieces cant take checkers pieces on the edges..

Checkers can capture backwards. EDIT: wikipedia says it's not a thing in english checkers. I played russian checkers too much.

You should make em' able to move backwards to remove the back rank problem

what about extend both chess armies with checkers... that intrigues me...

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE CHECKERS!

Great idea

This is the Puyo Puyo Tetris of board games

A chess card game sounds interesting. All the chess pieces could be suited; maybe the pieces can be summoned by cards and different pieces can have different properties such as drawing cards or discarding current pieces in play. Maybe the board is smaller like a 3x4 to limit the pieces. Maybe there’s a campaign mode for solo play with different pre-existing board setups escalating in difficulty. Idk these are some things I’d like to see in a chess card game

wow thats very crazy

What about checkers piece stalling in the new spaces?

The back-row problem was weird for me because our version of checkers had a lot of weird rules when compared to the "normal" way(it's not normal to me hence the quotations). In the Philippines checkers(also called 'dama') pieces are way more overpowered. They can take backwards throughout the game but never move backwards. If you manage to promote, the promoted piece can move like a bishop. Also there's also a weirder nerf that you would not expect. Everytime you can take something you have to take it. Which means you can force your opponents to do what you want which makes for more interesting mind games. especially at the early game. This rule also makes for a fun alternate game where instead of trying to take all your opponent's pieces you want yours taken instead. It's like a reverse winning. you should try it.

cool game mod

Imagine chess vs 3d/4d chess. Probably would not be at all balanced but you do sometimes hear people saying they were playing 4d chess while you were only _______, often chess or checkers

I'm gonna buy a shogi board and some checkers so that I can play not just the games they were meant for, but also this beautiful thing Edit: I realized that shogi boards are 9x9 and not 10x10, and I am now sad

Why not let the checkers pieces eat forward?

1:08 La en passant

Will there be a beta testing or early access available?

I would've liked but its on 69 right now so maybe later.

shogi vs chess?

Tá, mas e se o rei se esconder na casa de cor diferente das peças das damas... Como que ganha?

So have the checker player play international checkers?

comment for the algorithm

cant the king just stay on the light squares and never get checkmated?