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Today I was looking at my own WoF, "Too Much to Chew," and saw an error. The blue general is one step ahead of where it should be (c7 instead of b6). I thought of posting this message in the Bug Thread instead, but was not sure that it was exactly a bug. I think this is more of an error with creating the tournaments than involving the code, so I posted it here.

Another idea for a chess variation..i think its simple and kind of fun. PARASITE QUEEN or PIGGY BACK QUEEN Queen moves like a king.. Queen has the ability to mount/dismount friendly and enemy pieces(mount and dismount are considered a turn) FRIENDLY PIECES the piece now MOVES (together with queen) using its own moves OR the queen moves (1 square all directions) this new piece can CAPTURE using only the mounted piece moves if the piece is captured queen goes down with it queen CAN CAPTURE enemy pieces during dismount ENEMY PIECES queen attaching herself to an enemy piece now controls this piece lets say your BLACK queen hijacked a WHITE rook it CANNOT CAPTURE its fellow white pieces and CANNOT BE CAPTURED by its fellow white pieces....basically you hijack an enemy piece and move it to your part of the board to bring it to a more risky position..off course during dismount it can escape... you CAN use it to capture your own pieces and you can CAPTURE it with your own black pieces but queen, if not dismounted, goes down with it it moves ONLY with the moves of the piece hijacked BOTH KINGS of the game CANNOT get hijacked queen exists in PAWN PROMOTION ....i believe i covered everything..have fun and if i missed something plz comment........................also death to castling

I have a custom variant that needs some additional coding if it were to make it on to the site. I’ve played this with my students over the years, tweaking the rules in several different ways, and it’s been a lot of fun. It begins with an empty board like SetupChess and players take turns placing the pieces as usual, but pieces may be placed anywhere on the board. The key difference, and where some coding is needed, is that a player may only begin moving and capturing once their own king lands on the board. The remaining pieces are stored in the bank and can be later dropped into the game. Dropping your king too early often leads to getting drop-mated. Dropping too late leaves you with less flexibility in future attacks/defenses. Dropping too late after your opponent mobilizes is nearly always a fatal mistake as it means you can’t recapture. Play continues with standard rules until checkmate or draw. Variations for Over the Board Sets:1) All Pieces + 3 Pawns. Pawns are restricted to the ranks 2&3. Pawns promote normally.2) All Pieces + 2 Quadripawns (pawns that move 1 space horizontal & vertical, capture 1 space diagonally in all directions) No promotion. I’ve come to prefer using the Quadripawns as you can set up your base in any part of the board and still direct your attack in any direction. For the same reason, I think a good variation on the site (without having to code new pieces) would be: 3) 39 Starting Points available KQRBN (no pawns) I’d also enjoy seeing other additions that the site would allow for like adding other pieces, changing the board dimensions, bricked squares, etc. Let me know any thoughts. And how do I propose this idea for additional coding?

Here are the current rules of my invented chess variant:Two players must take turns placing pawns on the board. The pawns conquer a 2x2 square however way the player wishes. However, when you place it, it can't be next to an enemy pawn but it can be next to a friendly pawn, where it's obligatory to fuse into 1 whole bigger island, which takes multiple hits to kill. A fusion must be no more than 3 pawns big.During the game, islands can move 1 square in any direction except diagonally. Just like the start, if you go together with another pawn and there will be less than 4 fusions, you can fuse them together. If you decide to challenge another island, enter its territory and start a battle. Depending on the number of pawns on an island, you will get that many dices. However, if it's a minority, for example 2 pawns V 1 pawn, the 1 pawn will get a D8 dice instead of D6. After both players roll their dice, whoever got the bigger number gets to take one pawn off of their island. If it's a tie, then both islands die.To win the game, you must conquer all islands and still have islands left.Do you have any ideas on how I can improve the variant? What should I add? How can I add the other chess pieces into the game? Let me know in the comments! This was copy-pasted from another forum of mine because I'm too lazy to write it again.

New pieces: I think these 4 pieces should be added: Modern Elephant (Ferz + Alfil) Xiangqi Cannon (a Rook that must jump over a piece to capture) Champion (Wazir + Alibaba) Wizard (Ferz + Camel) I think the Modern Elephant and the Xiangqi Cannon should be added because then Shako (https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/Shako) would be possible on chess.com I think the Wizard and the Champion should be added because then Omega Chess (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Chess) would be possible on chess.com Colored KOTH squares: basically KOTH squares can have colors: no color: if a king/royal piece of any color move to a colorless KOTH square then the owner of that piece wins the game white: if the white king/royal piece moves to a white KOTH square then white wins the game black: if the black king/royal piece moves to a black KOTH square then black wins the game 4pc colors: red: if the red king/royal piece moves to a red KOTH square then red wins the game blue: if the blue king/royal piece moves to a blue KOTH square then blue wins the game green: if the green king/royal piece moves to a green KOTH square then green wins the game yellow: if the yellow king/royal piece moves to a yellow KOTH square then yellow wins the game Pieces mobility zone: this allows you to restrict a piece movement to a certain zone, theres would be a blank text box on “edit rules” that allows you do that, theres how it works: [a lower case letter (abbreviation of the color of the piece)]:[a Uppercase letter (notation of the piece)] = [squares or ranks or files], theres a better example: wB = 1 2 3 4 bB = 5 6 7 8 wK = e1 e2 d1 d2 bK = d7 e7 d8 e8 wR = A H bR A H the text above basically means that: the White and Black Rooks are restricted to the A and H files, the White Bishops are restricted to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Rank, the black bishops are restricted to the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Ranks, the white king is restricted to the d1, e1, d2 and e2 squares and the black king is restricted to the d8, e8, d7 and e7 squares custom promotion: this allows custom promotions for non-pawn variant and promotions only on certain ranks/squares/files theres a example how this would work: N(*) = ON R(a* h*) = E Q(e1) = A the Text above basically means: * means last Rank Knights promote to Knight or Knight-Rider on the last rank Rooks promote to Chancellor on the Last Rank (only on the A or H file) Queens promote to Amazon on the d1 square backwards: this option appear as button on “edit rules”, if enabled all pawns and pawn variants can move 1 square straight backwards (move only) Moves per turn: appears on the position editor, allows you to set how much times a player has to make a move in a turn, you also can set different amounts of moves per turn for the players: example: White: 2 moves per turn Black: 1 move per turn this allows Monster Chess (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_chess) and Marseillaise Chess (https://www.chessvariants.com/multimove.dir/marseill.html) to possible on chess.com

new zombies: puncher: it will push a pawn and if it cannot, it captures. if it cannot do that too, it does a random move. f-puncher: it will push a pawn and if it cannot, it captures. if it cannot do that too, it does a futer move. musher: it will capture and if it cannot, it pushes a pawn. if it cannot do that too, it does a random move. f-musher: it will capture and if it cannot, it pushes a pawn. if it cannot do that too, it does a futer move. mecker: it will capture and if it cannot, it checks. if it cannot do that too, it does a random move. f-mecker: it will capture and if it cannot, it checks. if it cannot do that too, it does a futer move. chuncher: it will check and if it cannot, it captures. if it cannot do that too, it does a random move. f-chuncher: it will check and if it cannot, it captures. if it cannot do that too, it does a futer move. pucker: it will push a pawn and if it cannot, it checks. if it cannot do that too, it does a random move. f-pucker: it will push a pawn and if it cannot, it checks. if it cannot do that too, it does a futer move. chesher: it will check and if it cannot, it pushes a pawn. if it cannot do that too, it does a random move. f-chesher: it will check and if it cannot, it pushes a pawn. if it cannot do that too, it does a futer move. stockfish: (unbeatable) ranter versions: double ranter: (has 50% chance of playing a ranter move or playing a futer move) panter: (has 50% chance of playing a patzer move or a futer move) new pieces: rock: it cannot be captured. it can only be placed on opponents' promotion ranks. check it 3 times to remove it. it does not remain as a dead piece and it just dissapears. you can place it only one time. it is used to stop promotion or a back rank checkmate. in this postion, if it is 1 check and black already used the rock, white could use the rock to stop promotion and white will win!

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57708446https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57709164https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57857982https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57858215https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57858334https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57858542https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57858676https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57859506https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57859853https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57860666https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57859962https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57858847https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/57858893

rules: 2 kings. win by checkmating both of them. castling works both ways, but in order for both to castle it must be short castle. pawns can promote to king, making another king the opposing side has to checkmate. check rule does not apply when there are more than one king on the board (opposing side can capture.)called dual chess but i think thats a bad name lol

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 10 | 15 Gamerules Bare Piece, Stalemate wins Promotion Chancellor, General, King, Ferz, Knight on the 8th rank Note Just a remake of Seirawan chess with Asean-like rules. See here at https://www.pychess.org/variants/asean The bishop is a ferz that can move one square forward so I used a king. The queen is a ferz. These fix the balance issues of the Chancellor and Archbishop in normal Seirawan chess.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 45 sec Gamerules RB Teams, 6-check, Fog of War, Stalemate Loses Promotion Rook on the 11th rank Note My first attempt at making a teams wof, hope ya like it! You can either win by surviving 24 moves, checking yellow 6 times or capturing yellows king. If one player has no pawns left, the whole team loses. Oh, I changed my variant name to that as a joke. If it is accepted, call this Circle Challenge.

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/61506984

new pieces

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/61166426 look

I'm making a variant where every piece is bad (moves always 1 square) and I want to make an option for pawns to skip promotion. How do I do this? Oh, and can we get spell 4pc?

Have you ever wondered what a game will be like if you had to get your QUEEN to the middle? (Suggested rating composition: Queen of the Hill = QRBN: 40%, KOTH: 30%, Positional: 20%, Blitz: 10%.) Hope it gets accepted! One more NCV before I go on vacation! Also, why is Glass House still UR? I bet GD 2.2 will come out before it gets reviewed btw. https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54506812/24/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54506921/36/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54507056/23/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54510442/8/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54514240/11/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54572819/21/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54572911/8/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54575053/14/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54594220/5/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/54594331/46/3

I actually wanted FoW, but there was a bug. In this variant, you get setup pieces, and you need to check your opponent once. https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53373349/13/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53373457/21/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53373523/18/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53380689/45/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53600743/20/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53606163/16/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53373362/11/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53373392/39/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53662821/19/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/53663249 IT GOT DECLINED CHECK ON VARIANTS WORLD

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/60926318/0/3

Every time i make a new custom position and i set the promotion rank its always on the wrong rank. Ex: set rank to 10, actual promotion 8. please fix this

how do I make the n-checks different?

i made a new variety of chess...nothing crazy or demanding..not even new pieces..just different rules..looks interesting..unfortunately i am not too familiar with forums..if somebody wants me i can describe it here..thanks in advance..