Hi, everyone!

Has anyone heard of the variant called Duck Chess? It went viral after popular streamers such as Hikaru Nakamura, Eric Rosen, and Anna Cramling played it on stream.

In this game, the duck is an extra piece added that prevents pieces from moving through it or on top of it. The only pieces that can move through it are knights, but they can't go on top of it. Each move consists of moving a regular piece and then placing the duck on a different empty square. There is no check or checkmate because the duck can block checks, meaning you could ignore a check and make a normal move, and then block the check with a duck. You can also castle through a check, or into check, or out of check. To win, you have to capture the king to win. The stalemated player also wins. In this game, knights are worth more than bishops, seeing as they aren't as affected by the duck. There are all sorts of new "quacktics" in duck chess, as I hope you'll find out!

You can play duck chess on the variants page on chess.com. I look forward to playing this variant with some of you!

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