Talk:3139: Chess Variant

I should add support for playing this to my WIP chess library. 73.164.32.149 21:43, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I feel nerdsniped by this one, and I'm not even into chess. Should you either slide a tile or move a piece in your turn, or should you do both, or should you move a piece on your turn and slide a tile on your opponent's turn? Also, should it disallow sliding the board back to its immediately previous state, to avoid the back-and-forth situation on the title text (but would still allow moving in circles)? Which would be more fair, and reduce the chance of draws? So many questions... 185.81.126.164 22:00, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hooooookay. If 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 , it's Black's move in canonical chess. For the position shown in this variant, White would have to be allowed to move a piece and a sliding section: 3. d4 & ef34>gh34, Black to move. Why White would use the extra move to double down on surrendering the center of the board, sacrificing the gambit pawn for no apparent benefit, is beyond me. At best, this is taking hypermodernism to incomprehensible extreFOOOOOOOOM. Ow ... 2605:59C8:160:DB08:816E:805:44F1:B553 00:45, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

What is the starting position of the tiles? Can ranged pieces pass over the “gap”? Can you slide a row of tiles at once or only one? 2A02:AB88:7815:7E80:E212:8D1:BCBB:7DD8 01:03, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

How long do you think it will be until someone actually implements this? 206.193.5.5 23:04, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Do we specify positions for the transcript or do we just say "scotch opening"Mathmaster (talk)

Could you just slide yourself out of ladder checks then?