Chess Like Pieces from the Delirious Bughouse Variant

• Standard Ortho-Chess Pieces
• Cylindrical Ortho-Chess Pieces. If all pieces are cylindrical, we get the Cylindrical chess
• Reflexive (or Billiard) Ortho-Chess Pieces, that would view the a and h columns, and the 1st and 8th lines, as mirrors . They generate the Billiards chess
• The extended knights (Camel, Zebra, Giraffe, Nightrider) (using Betza's Notation , these pieces are L, J, [1,4] (not yet named) and NN or N7)
• Pawns with different captures or movements. The standard Pawn is, except for first double move, en-passant and promotion, fcFfmW. These extended pawns are fscNfmW (Pawn with sideways Knight Capture), fscLfmW (Pawn with sideways Camel capture), fsc[1,4]fmW (Pawn with sideways Giraffe capture), and a very powerful cFfcnAfbW. Again, check Betza's Notation .
• Two seemingly powerful pieces, that in fact were very weak when the board was crowded: they were forced to make two moves like a Wazir or an Alfil, and then jump as a Knight to any direction. On an empty board, each of them would control almost 30 different squares, but usually they were hindered by other pieces

• The Saltamontes (this is the Spanish name, it means he who jumps over hills ; I don't know it's English name), that moves as a Queen, but is forced to jump over a piece in all movements. In Betza's Notation , this piece would be pRpB ( p for cannon). For example, in the initial position, if the Queen were replaced by Saltamontes, White would be able to Play:

  1- Sh5+ (jumping over the e2 pawn and attacking e8 by jumping over f7)

  And this would not be a checkmate, since Black could play:

  1- (...) f6!

  Of course, the game could continue:

  2- Sxh8 (jumping over h7) Sa5+ (jumping over d7)

  3- d3! Sxa1 etc

• The berserk King-like, a piece that moves like a King, and, after captures an enemy piece (capture is not enforced!), keeps capturing all other pieces that are in line, even his own pieces. This piece can create curious mating combinations:

  		 Black
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | r | n | b | q | k |   |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | p | p | p | p | p |   | bk| p |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+   White to play and
     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   checkmate in 2 moves
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   bk = Black's Berserk King-like
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   | Q |   |   |   |   |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | P | P | P | P | P | R | P | P |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   | N | B |   | K | R |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  		 White
  

  Solution: 1- Qg8+ and if (bk)xg8 follows 2- Rf8++!!
• Checker pieces (Pawn and Queen): they move like a checker piece, and are forced to capture the maximum number of enemy pieces. The only exception is that the urge to protect checkmate is stronger than the checker piece hunger ( check for checker variant )
• Pieces that move twice. If all the pieces move twice, we get the Marseilleis Variant , if just one side moves twice (but with a reduced number of pieces), we have the Monster Chess
• Pieces that have double strength: any such piece can only be captured by an other piece of double strength, or when they are under a double attack. Example: if we replaced White's KP by a double-strength Pawn, a game could go like this:

  
  1- (P2)e4      d5
  2- (P2)exd5    Qd6
  3- Bb5+	       Nc6
  4- Bxc6+       (but not (P2)dxc6?? bxc6!)
  4- (...)       bxc6
  5- (P2)dxc6    and the P2 @ c6 can't be captured by the Queen
  

• The Pawn-Squeezer; it has the combined movements of a Fide-Pawn and a "Squeezer". After each movement, the Squeezer moves one step forward, squeezing anything in front of it. Example: if White's KP was a Pawn-Squeezer the game could go like this (the first movement is White's movement; the second is the PS automatic movement):

  1- (PS)e4        (PS)e5	     d5
  2- (PS)exd6(ep)  (PS)d7      (any)xd7
  
  or:
  
  1- d4		 (PS)e3      d5
  2- (PS)e4	 (PS)e5	     e6
  3- Bb5+		 (PS)e6      c6
  4- Bxc6+	 (PS)e7+     Kxe7
  

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