agChess -- an agressive chess variant

[Ovyron]

My taste is for seemingly minimal deviations from the classical chess (or else it's not really a variant anymore).

Heh, I'd like to call them "metavariants"

When I was a kid I created several chess variants, then, when I got internet, I discovered that all of them already existed, though my implementation was different (for example, in my crazyhouse variant, pawns could be dropped anywhere in the board, promoting upon drop on the last rank, pieces could be captured and dropped on the same turn, etc.)

[JensBNielsen]

In fact this seems about the only situation in which I would consider capturing my own pieces. So in practical play, the new rule might not cause any difference whatsoever.

It will probably not occur often, but there can be many reasons for capturing your own piece.

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A white pawn on b7 is blocked by a black knight. White can play a knight to c8 and play b7xc8Q.

Bb2,Qc3,Pg7/Kg8 - Qxg7+ could be a mating move (depending on all the other pieces on the board)

Ra1,Bf1,Pe2,Pg2 - white wants his rook to the 8.th row.
It can be done with Rxf1, Rf8 or Bxe2, Rh1, Rh8 or Bxg2, Rg1, Bh3, Rg8 (depending on all the other pieces on the board)

Kh1,Qa8,Pg2/Qg3,Ng4 - Qxg2 prevents the mate.

Jens