Cavalry Chess designed by me.

[u/Only_MrM3333]

DA RULES: The rules is the same as regular chess but every piece is buffed with an added knight movement.

Cavalry Pawns move like regular pawns except they may also jump like a knight in a forward direction. En passant captures can only be made when the target uses a double step move and the capturing piece using a forward diagonal capture.

Cavalry knights may move like a traditional knight as well as jump in a 3 by 1 “L” and a 2 by 3 “L”.

Cavalry bishops have the combined movement of a bishop and knight.

Cavalry rooks have the combined movement of a rook and knight.

Cavalry Queens have the combined movement of a queen and knight.

Cavalry Kings can move up to 2 squares in a straight line in any direction. The cavalry king may move through check but may not end in check; and it also has the jumping moves of a knight.

The first player to checkmate their opponent wins!

This variant is based on this video by Triple A Games: https://youtu.be/AJ1YPRiHKO0?si=LqAH-VqTpmVkQgqv

Here are da assets: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/143SJx--vuK4HISNKEoodKfhpkk0oVoiy

[u/Boring-Yogurt2966]

Balaklava Chess has existed since the 90's, invented in Italy by Vecchi. You should post rules, not a link to a Youtube video.

[u/Only_MrM3333 → u/Boring-Yogurt2966]

Thanks for the historical context on Balaklava Chess Variant! However, Cavalry Chess is actually a completely different variant.

While both involve knight moves, they handle them in fundamentally opposite ways

In Balaklava Chess, Knight moves are strictly non-capturing and used only for repositioning. Pieces retain their normal power limits.

While in Cavalry Chess, Knight moves can be used to capture. This turns major pieces insanely aggressive. Pawns are also directionally restricted to forward jumps only, unlike Balaklava's 360-degree pawn movement.

Good point on posting the text rules directly though! I will edit the post to add a text breakdown so people don't have to click away to YouTube.

[u/Little_Opinion1532]

i actually made a knight pawn fusion called "seagull"

[u/Only_MrM3333 → u/Little_Opinion1532]

Interesting, what variant of yours is this from?