FYI: in shogi (Japanese chess), you can give up a turn to reclaim a captured piece. It goes where it started IIRC. Shogi also features a 9x9 board, new pieces, and all the pieces are white tiles with black kanji. When they reach the ninth rank, you flip them, the kanji is red, and they gain new moves. The tiles are directional and that’s how you know whose are whose. It’s insane but it’s popular in Japan.
That’s pretty cool. It figures Japan would add a level up and gain new powers feature (#Pokémon #Digimon)
Plus games take forever.
Where do they respawn? What happens if that space is already taken?
Respawn in their original location.
If the space is taken, both pieces occupy the same space.
If an enemy piece is already present on that square, the enemy piece automatically captures the respawned piece.
If a friendly piece is already present on that square, they both occupy the same square until one of them moves. If an enemy moves on to that space before either piece moves, the enemy captures both pieces.
Call it Oblivion Ring
I could swear I remember hearing about a variant with rules kindof like that. Vaguely, I remember that the variant involved a rule where as a turn, you could put a piece back on the board. I’m pretty sure it had to be placed on “your half” of the board. Like, you couldn’t just place it right on the square right next to the enemy’s king when the enemy’s king hasn’t even moved yet.
I don’t recall for certain whether it was your previously captured pieces that could be respawned (like, if your rook was captured, you could respawn it) or something more like you could spawn a piece of your enemy’s that you’d previously captured (like, if you’re playing white and you capture a black knight, you could spawn an additional white knight on your side of the board).
And I can’t remember if that variant had any particular name.
Wasn’t there a card game that did this back in the 90’s? I am vaguely aware of certain rule changes that would make the board larger or knights get 3 to 4 moves…damn…what the hell was it?
