The populist.'nMoves one square at a time and cannot take pieces, but when it is adjacent to a pawn, the pawn and any pawn that is in a square next to it flip colour.

[snornik@techhub.social]

@selzero The vibe coder.
Moves to a completely random tile. if there is a piece on the tile it gets taken out and the player owning it cannot move the next turn. (Can even take out your own King if your unlucky)

[snornik@techhub.social]

@selzero or another one:
The Facehugger:
Can move in a radius of 2 tiles. Cannot take pieces. Instead it infects a piece and the facehugger gets taken out from the game. Next time the infected piece is used or tried to be taken out. It turns into a xenomorph which can move in any pattern but only directly to a piece closest to it. (friend or foe alike)

[lmac1970@mstdn.social]

@selzero The Dalek. Exterminates any adjacent opponent piece, and occasionally subs off its own side. Can only move in straight lines and not diagonally until 1988.

[tinyfrights@social.horrorhub.club]

@selzero The Archer. Can take out any piece it has a straight-line shot at, without moving from the square it’s on. Can move one square any direction. (Can’t move and shoot on the same turn.)

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@tinyfrights @selzero alternative: limited range, but can capture any single piece within range, in any direction. Standard range is 3, but the Archer can climb onto a tower to increase the range to 5.

[toxy@mastodon.acc.sunet.se]

@selzero The “Investigative Journalist”. If it ends up adjacent to a bishop the piece is removed on paedophilia charges but if the IJ piece is taken by a king or queen piece then the bishop is returned to the board.

[wolfofthewisp@mastodon.ie]

@selzero the cursor wrapper : can move off any edge of the board forward, backward, sidewards, or diagonally and return from the opposite side to capture pieces or occupy squares so long as no other piece is in the way

[beemoh@mastodonapp.uk]

@selzero The Image In Microsoft Word

Launches the board across the room. All pieces in play must continue to play from where they land.

[selzero@syzito.xyz]

@beemoh this also introduces the piece "The Paperclip" which is unplayable, just blocks off a 3x3 area of the board that is out of play for 3 turns.

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@beemoh @selzero The IE6 third party add on toolbar(s), moves all pieces one row down on the board and reduces the size of the play area.

[artharg@mastodon.nl]

@beemoh @selzero The Autocorrect. Moves like a pawn, except that instead of capturing a piece, it degrades it. So bishop to pawn, knight to bishop, rook to knight, queen to rook and king to queen. Pawns are turned into kings. The Autocorrect itself is then taken from the field.

Reading this, you’d get a cross between chess and Uno 😄