My take: Just add time and different scenery.
Some pieces couldn't move at night. Some could only move on grass land, some other only within woods or rocky mountains. And then there is a catapult where you can shoot pieces randomly back on the board.
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The Tank
Replaces a knight
moves like a rook, captures like a pawn.
can't be captured except by a knight or a tank.
The sniper.
- It moves like a king.
- It replaces one of the pawns on the board.
- If in any direction it has no more than one allied piece directly in front of it (cover), then at least (two? three?) unoccupied spaces between that ally and an enemy piece, it can take aim at an enemy piece.
- The next turn, if those conditions are still true, it can fire, capturing the target piece.
- An enemy piece adjacent to the target piece that could move into the line of fire can be sacrificed to take the bullet instead, though.
This is somewhat similar to cannons from xiangqi, which move like rooks but can only capture by leaping over another piece on the line of attack.
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I swear I once read about a variant called The Jack with a new piece called a Jack. Can't find anything online about it and don't remember what it did.
Maybe the Capablanca's idea could be a good solucion to avoid draws in classical chess, a piece caoabke to make a checkmate by itself, I mean, it only make sense for high level games, fortunately with chess 960 (ramdom chess) the opportunity of innovation and emotion is there.
Maybe it starts out on e4 and the current player can decide to either move one of their pieces or the singular beaurocrat.