Alt text: The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.
Alt text: The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.
Where does the empty tile start?
I think E/F-3/4
That way, you need to slide a tile before playing King’s pawn (I assume this costs the turn), meaning at the start of the game, white has to choose to either go for a normal E4 opening or to functionally give up the first turn in order to get a tile available on E3 & E4.
I don’t know how this would affect Queen’s pawn openings.
I saw this comic yesterday and thought about it for a while though; I think the game would probably be likely to draw by repetition as you are capable of undoing your opponent’s last slide, referenced by the alt text:
It would be fun to try out though. You could also add some rules to balance if like “you can’t slide a tile if a majority of pieces on it belong to the opponent” or something
I think it should start in the center so traditional King and Queen pawn games get messed up.
Would banning slide reversal until a different slide has been moved work?