Ideas for Chess With Mirrors

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Ideas for Chess with Mirrors

what is your favorite variant of chess to incorporate mirrors?

my first thought was a piece composed of a little mirror which can face 1 orthogonal direction at a time and whatever piece of pawn it reflects at the beginning of a move of the way it can move.

perhaps it's like the Weeping Angels such that if you get two mirrors lined up that they copy each other and neither can move until some other piece or pawn comes between them.

perhaps if they reflect a king, they can be promoted to a king (thus requiring capture or checkmate of both kings).

alternatively a larger mirror could be placed on or be part of the board and used to double the pieces, or to put the king's reflection in check.

I've also played a board game version of lasertag where the pieces were compared of 8 mirrors, a laser cannon, and a laser sensitive tower. striking the back of a mirror with a laser would result in that piece being captured and striking the tower by using the mirrors to build a reflecting pathway. the same principle could be used to check a king across reflections.