Funny Events from the Delirious Bughouse Variant

Funny Pieces

• Pyramid: it must be kept outside the board, and dropped at will. A square occupied by a Pyramid must not be occupied by any other piece. There are some ways, however, to destroy a Pyramid:
  • Explosion of an Atomic Bomb or a Kamikaze near it
  • Smashing it with a Squeezer
  • It can be captured by a Pyramid Eater
  The Chess with Pyramids can be seen here ( procurar )
• Wall: these are four Pyramids, alined either Rook-like or Bishop-like. Once the Wall is dropped, it looses the individuality, and becomes just four Pyramids. The Wall is a Multi-positional piece.
• Atomic Bomb: when dropped, destroys everything in a 3x3 square. Kings are immune to radiation. Nothing else survives. There is a variant with ( find it! ) Atomic Bombs, but they destroy the Kings and are not free to be dropped anywhere. The Atomic Bomb captures as a Detonator.
• Inverse Atomic Bomb: fills a 3x3 square with random allied pieces
• Mutation Bomb: caused mutations in a 3x3 square
• Extra King: now, it's necessary to give checkmate to both enemy Kings to win; but if one of them is captured, it may be recycled to the ally ( check variants with two kings )

• The Disgusting Kid (it was created in "honour" to a relative that didn't like to take a shower, but I will not reveal his name in public :-))))) ), a piece that moves like a King, but is so disgusting that all pieces (friend or foe) that come close to it are forced to go back to the next square or to disintegrate if such square was not available (the King is not affected by this repulsion). Also, this piece is so detestable, that any enemy piece must capture it, and this capture has the same priority of the checkers capture (it can only be bypassed if the own King is in danger). Example:

  	       Black
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  
     | r |   | b | q | r |   | k |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | p | p | p |   |   | p | b | p |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   |   | p |   | n | p |   |    White to move and mate in two
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+    White has a Disgusting Kid at f3
     |   |   |   |   | p | n |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   |   | P |   |   |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   | p | Q |   |   |DK |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | P | B | P |   | P | P | P | P |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | R | N |   |   | K | B | N | R |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  
  	     White
                                        
  

  Solution: 1-(DK)e4!!! The immediate effects are: white's pawn at d4 is repulsed to c4, black's pawn at e5 is repulsed to e6, black's knight at f5, forced to flee to g6 and finding his escape square occupied, disintegrates. Then, Black is forced to destroy this source of obnoxiousness, and play 1- (...) N(f6)xe4 following 2- Qxg7++

  This piece is a Repulser.

• Kamikaze pieces, that moves and captures as any Chess-like piece , but, once captured, explodes all nearby squares. The King is immune to this explosion, unlike the rules in Atomic Chess . Kamikazes are Detonators.

• The Thief, that moves as an Amazon (combination of Queen and Knight), and whose sole purpose (besides blocking other pieces) is stealing Magic Items, when adjacent (King-like capture) to an enemy piece. The Thief can deliver the stolen item to his own King, whenever he is close to him

• Anti-aerial battery: it's a piece that doesn't move, except that whenever a piece is dropped (the bughouse variant characteristic), the battery can capture it from any position in the board .

• Pyramid Eater: the Pyramid is a structure that can never be captured by any piece. There are a few exceptions: explosions (like the Kamikaze's), atomic bombs or Squeezers can destroy it. The Pyramid Eater is the piece whose sole function is capturing Pyramids, so that they can be dropped by the ally

• Pyramid Builder: whenever this piece moves, it leaves a Pyramid in its source square.

• Wall Builder: whenever this piece moves, it leaves Pyramids in all squares that it passed through. For example, a Pyramid Builder that moved like a Rook, making movement R* a1-a8, would leave a Pyramid at a1. A Wall Builder, however, would leave Pyramids in a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, and a7!

• Squeezer Builder: whenever this piece moves, it leaves a Squeezer in its source square

• Piece Builder: whenever this piece moves, it leaves a random piece in its source square. This piece is random, and maybe anyone from the chess-like set, or from the funny pieces set, or an abandoned magic item, to be used by any piece that occupies its square

• Mutation Builder: whenever this piece moves, it causes mutations in all pieces that were adjacent to its source square. The mutations change the piece to an alternate piece from the same set ( chess-like to chess-like, and so on).

• Line/Column Destructor: whenever this piece moves, it destroys either the column or the line that it were occupying. Example:

  	       Black
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  
     | r | n | b | q | r | b |   | k |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | p | p |   |   | n | p | p | p |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   |   |   | p |   |DG |   |  White to move and mate in 4
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  The DG is a line/column destructor
     |   |   |   | p |   |   |   |   |  that moves as a Giraffe (4,1)
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   | p |   |   |   |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   | N |   | P |   |   | P |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | P | P |   |   |   |   | P |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | R |   | B |   | K | R |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  	     White
                                        
  

  Solution: 1-DGa2+, collapsing column b. The board becomes like this:

  	      Black
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | r | n | b | q | r | b | k |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | p | p |   |   | n | p | p |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   |   |   | p |   |   |  White menaces 2-DGf6, collapsing
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+  the h column and Black's King.
     |   |   |   | p |   |   |   |  There is only one defense
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   | p |   |   |   |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |   |   | N |   | P |   | P |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | P | P |   |   |   |   |DG |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | R |   | B |   | K | R |   |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
       a   b   c   d   e   f   h
  	     White
                                        
  

  The game follows: 1- (...) f6! 2-Ne4 c3 3-Bd2 Kf7 4-Nh5++
• Line/Column Builder: whenever this piece moves, it duplicates either its origin line or its origin column. It may even duplicate the King.
• Wizard with Turn to Stone: the attacked piece becomes a Pyramid
• Wizard with Charm: the attacked piece changes color. A piece that captures in this way is called a Converter .
• Wizard with Haste Spell: the allied piece affected begins to move with double speed. The affected piece, then, becomes an Inclusive Compound piece.
• Wizard with Invisibility: the allied piece affected becomes invisible. This variant requires a referee, for the invisible piece plays like Kriegspiel. An invisible piece that captures an enemy piece, or checks the enemy King, becomes visible
• Wizard with Touch of Intelligence: the allied piece affected becomes Intelligent, and always plays the best move (the concept of "Intelligence" is specific to the game)
• Wizard with Charisma Spell: the allied piece affected becomes "Charismatic", which means that forced moves to capture it become optional [it's hard to explain how this function...]
• Wizard with Teleport: the affected piece (either friend or foe) is changed to the other board
• Wizard with Strength Spell: the allied affected piece gets double strength.
• Wizard with Disintegrate: the attacked piece is disintegrated. The Wizard doesn't move, and the piece is lost forever. This is the capture mode of the Ranger.
• Wizard with Mutation Spell: the affected piece (either friend or foe) suffers a mutation
• Wizard with Dimension Door: the affected piece (either friend or foe) may be relocated at any square in the board

Structures

They are:

• Squeezer: it's an invulnerable piece, that moves always one step further, squeezing anything in its path. When it reaches the side of the board, it goes one step in the secondary direction, inverts the main movement, and keeps going with the destruction. So, a Squeezer that starts at a1 with main movement to a2 and secondary movement to b1 will move a1 - a2 - ... a7 - a8 - b8 - b7 - ... - b1 - c1 - ... - h2 - h2 - h1 - (to the other board, in the position homologous to a1) h8* - h7* - ...

  The Squeezer can only be destroyed by:

  • Exploding an Atomic Bomb or a Kamikaze over it or near it
  • Collapsing its column
• Anti-Squeezer: it's a Squeezer, that creates a new random piece in it's path
• Translation Mirror: two squares on the homologous boards become equivalent. It's possible to have two Kings in one board and none in the other
• Square of Combination: if an allied piece is occupying this square, and an other allied piece moves to it, the two pieces are combined.
• War Invasion: [explanation ommited; it depends on the rules of a War Game]
• Bacteria Invasion: some squares, randomly selected, are infected by "bacterias", that evolve in each movement according to Conway's Game of Life's rules
• Volcano: any time a new piece enters the game, the Volcano has a 1/13 chance of exploding, like a 3x3 atomic bomb. The King, as usual, is immune to it's effects
• Crowning Square: any pawn that enters it is automatically promoted

Events

They are:

• Ninth line or column (empty)
• Nith column with generic piece and generic pawn
• A random line or column disappears. Of course, it must not be one of the King's
• The Board becomes cylindrical. The game, in that board, becomes the Cylindrical chess
• The Board becomes cylindrical, but along the columns: an extra set of six lines appear, and the two "second" lines are occupyed by generic pawns. The game, in that board, becomes a ring of perimeter 14 and width 8, similar to the Circular chess (16 by 4). Check here to see how this variant can be played alone, or in toroidal board .
• The Board becomes a Moebius Strip, along the columns: an extra set of six lines appear, and the two "second" lines are occupyed by generic pawns. Check here to see how this can possibly work. If this is combined with the standard cylindrical transformation, the board would become a nice Klein Bottle!
• The Board becomes cylindrical, but breaks again, in a random column/column division.
• The Board acquires spin: any time a new piece enters the game, the board rotates 90 degrees. All pawns that suddenly appear in the eigth line are promoted randomly
• Add an extra dimension, with an empty board. In this case, the Queen gains the Unicorn movement, but a Bishop+Rook combination *doesn't*. The pieces will move like the 4x4x8 3D Chess , in a (usually) 8x2x8 board. This extra dimension will change the rules for extra line or column (to get an extra plane). It's even possible, with the extremely unprobably event of the repetion of this event, to get a Four-Dimensional Board. The combinations are endless: image if a 3D board suffers a "Moebiusation": there would be three ways of doing it!
• The King becomes Fat: it expands to a 3x3 monster. All allied pieces nearby get out of the board, and may be dropped at will. All enemy pieces nearby are captured. Check still applies, and the "capture" of the King's Fat has the unique effect of making the King smaller, until the King returns to the normal weight
• The King gets the extra movement of a random chess like piece
• The King may be replaced at any position at will
• All allied pieces that surround the King leave the board, suffer a mutation, and get back at a random position
• Pyramid Rain: some squares of the board are occupied by Pyramids
• Mutation Rain: some squares of the board are affected by Mutation
• Piece Rain: some squares of the board get a new piece
• Acid Rain: some pieces of the board get an acid drop, and suffer a downgrade

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