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Old 10-31-2025, 02:54 PM
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A guy made chess pawns that can transform into the other pieces at specific points, making the game more interesting.


I know very little about how mechanisms like this work, so this kind of stuff is always impressive.
Neat!

The variant he came up with seems like it would be likely to degenerate into a few very distinct openings where the central queens get traded or rook pawns promote to attack across the way or something, but the mechanisms are impressive.
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