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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 3 min Gamerules 7-check, Bare Piece Promotion Queen, Bishop, Rook, Knight on the 8th rank

Timecontrol 4 | 4 Gamerules 6-check, Any Capture, Sideways Pawns, No Zombies, 40-point Checkmate, Alfil -> Elephant Promotion Bishop, Camel, Alfil, King, or Knight on the 14th rank

Board is 6x6 Pieces (but not king) on the back rank are randomized The light-squared bishop is not in the corner

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 3 | 2 Promotion Bishop, King, Queen, Rook on the 8th rank Note Overview: The moveset of the knight and king are swapped. This one simple change has a surprisingly big cascading effect on openings, attacking, defending and endgames.

As a Variants player who loves using Fairy-Stockfish to analyze new variants, there's a thing I wanna ask: Which range of centipawns, in the starting position of the game, is called "fair"?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 5 min Gamerules Play for Mate, 15-3-check, Takeover, Stalemate Loses Promotion Queen on the 8th rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 10 min Promotion Chancellor, Archbishop, King, General, Queen, Wildebeest on the 11th rank Note The original idea of this game was to implement Courier de los Combinados on chess.com. However Courier de los Combinados has the weaknesses of doubled pawns in the opening setup and supplementing the original Courier setup with several pieces which are worth no more than a Knight (the second Ferz and Wazir and the two Camels). So now the board is 14x8 and there are a second Mann and Wildebeest in place of the Ferzes, Wazirs and Camels. Capablanca’s pieces also came into the game to fill in the gaps in the starting position. There is also the General to complete the set of the Knight compound pieces.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 30s | 1D Gamerules 88-1-99-check, Fatal Capture, Capture the King Promotion Queen on the 13th rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 3 | 2 Promotion Queen, Bishop, Rook, Knight on the 8th rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 30s | 3D Gamerules Play for Mate, 88-check, Fog of War, Fatal Capture, King of the Hill Promotion Amazon on the 13th rank

The king is locked two ranks away from the main board, camel and riders checks are the only possible interactions. It takes a bit of lateral thinking since it's not allowed in this site to have a mann (an unroyal king) when there is no royal piece on the board, so the solution I found was to lock the king inside a wall deep enough to prevent most interactions. In this case it doesen't work against camels, though two more brick ranks can be added, but it's unsolvable for riders since they have unlimited range.With this exception it works excellent for FIDE as well with any variant without reaching riders.

I want to add the Giraffe, Mann, Zebra, Shogi Gold, Shogi Silver, Shogi Lance, Shogi Knight, Shogi Horse, Shogi Dragon and Xiangqi Cannons

I found this setup after making my deathmatch setup The idea is to checkmate the king by converting pawns, however, it's mostly a recipe for stalemate, since it's too hard a goal. This other however is a much simpler an easier proposal: king can only be checked by knights you can only checkmate by positioning an unatacked night on d1, f1, d8, f8 I also had more fun playing it, but once you and the opponent realize that pawns are key the game is not as fun. A more complex and elaborate setup where poawns are not as interesting id this final one: Space added for leapers to hide and aditional pieces to defend it Pieces on the sides prevents lame checkmates from RN combination pieces, however those Dababas are very nasty on knights. I personally don like a lot games with so many pieces. The only limitation I found is that castle must be done only against rooks, where a chancellor in place may be more useful.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 5 min Promotion Wazir on the 8th rank Note This is as similar to Xiangqi as I can manage, try out your skills in this slightly modified version of this Chinese Game.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Timecontrol 30 | 30 Gamerules Game of Points, 50-check, Bare Piece, King of the Hill, Capture the King, Sideways, Diplomacy, Stalemate Loses Promotion Amazon on the 14th rank

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 5 min Gamerules Play for Mate, 50-check, Fog of War, Any Capture, Bare Piece, Sideways, Diplomacy, Stalemate Loses Promotion Amazon, Bishop, Camel, Chancellor, Archbishop, King, Camel-Rider, General, Knight, Knight-Rider, Queen, Rook, Wildebeest on the 8th rank Note With the armies of Black and White fighting, what could the smaller lesser in-between kundoms do? Fight back of course. While White or black could always opt in for a draw by letting zombies capture their royal piece as mentioned here, the zombies are checkers, which would mean that if they could, they would always opt in for a check instead. I would still consider this an interesting varient, for a WOF as I later realized that it is not really a NCV because, once again mentioned in the original forum, the zombies can disrupt ones strcuture and put them at a great disadvantage.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Timecontrol 1 min Gamerules Giveaway, Any Capture, Bare Piece, GhostBoard Promotion Knight on the 8th rank

The requisite for presenting a variant is that a game be played 10 times with no bots, I have many of those that worth the effort and accomplish the requisites, the thing is that I have to search them one by one in my match history. There could be a way to save a position and easily find all matches without searching one by one. It's no novelty that the variants part of this site is pretty made on place, so it should be improved, there's no way to name an unrated position not even in one own's saved positions, you have to browse them visually! by the shape of the board you created, no naming allowed, no description intended.

Quoted from https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/requirements-for-submission No aborts Testing games are not valid if they were aborted or quickly-resigned (two to five moves into the game). Do timeouts count?

Time control 3|2 Gamerules Bare Piece Rule, Seirawan Setup, Crazywan, Game of Points, King of the Hill, Capture the King, Sideways, Torpedo, No En Passant, Diplomacy, Spectator ChatNote Pawn promote to an Amazon at the 14th rank, 50-check, Stalemate = The opponent receives the points, Points for Mate = 40, Each player has 99.999.999 points