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Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by aaron_seattle on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:42AM (#25484146)
Here's a variant my 8 year-old niece invented, and it has some great playability:

normal rules, except each side makes two turns in a row.

Constraint: the second move cannot logically depend on the first move in any way.

We've played a few dozen games this way. Really opens up some interesting possibilities.

Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by mikk_w on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:11AM (#25484279)
This is already a known variant (modulo the constraint on the second move not relying on the first). Best way to play it is that the white's first turn is only one move, then black starts with the first double move - this is the 12* protocol (first implemented in a game called Connect6), and it practically eliminates any first move advantage
Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by ketzo on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:59AM (#25484216)
That sounds so fun. Honestly, I wonder how you could enforce that on more experienced chess players; is there a way to make a second move "forgetting" what you did first?
Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by vaniver on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:07AM (#25484260)
"Logically depend" has an easy interpretation: the second move must be also be valid if performed before the first move. [You could do a harder variant where both moves must be legal simultaneously.]
Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by ajkjk on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:07AM (#25484261)
I assume it just means that, for instance, you can't move the same piece twice, or for the second move to one only legal once the first occurs.