How about a Battlechess mode designed to rack up highscores? By saying BATTLECHESS CHALLENGE PLAYER TO , you would start a Battlechess game where the winner would be the person with a higher number of points, and the person who killed the opposite king would actually LOSE if they didn't have the requisite point value. This way, not every game would be a single rush to get the queen kingside. Point values would be as follows:

Pawn = 1 point
Knight = 3 points
Bishop = 4 points
Rook = 6 points
Queen = 9 points
King = immediately terminates game. If the capturing player does not have the point value required, they automatically lose.

Not a bad idea, and would require a bit more strategy. However, maybe make it so that the points-things are related to the piece doing the capturing as well: that is, a Pawn capturing a Queen would gain the most points, while a Queen capturing a pawn would gain almost nothing (perhaps just 1), while a pawn capturing a pawn might generate 3 or so instead. This way you'd really have to think about all your pieces and not just rely on the queen to do the damage.

I like your addition to the idea, Xenthos. In general, a low-mobility piece like a pawn would have a higher score modifier for capturing a high value piece, while a high-mobility piece like a Rook would have a lower score modifier. Of course, do bear in mind that Knights are considered low mobility or high mobility depending the skill level of the player using them.

Perfect.

And make capturing player pieces worth more points than denizen pieces.

I think it's a great idea!

Add points for promoting pawns too. Thats surely worth note!