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30 seconds-the first player to bring 2 pawns to the 8th rank wins

Hi As you know, im co-founder from 8 player chess, which has some updates. 1. 8 player sandbox Bye bye paint, you have been replaced by a drag and drop website which downloads images. This includes a piece menu for placing more pieces, including fairy ones. https://www.themidnightdispatch.com/chess 2. Official club This club is now official Chess.com staff made it official. You should see an official checkmark when visiting the club https://www.chess.com/club/8-player-chess 3. Needed checkmates for teams. Now, instead of having to mate 2 players in teams, you have to mate 3 4. Future change of piece colors, notation system and namings. We will soon change some things. We will switch Green-Purple-Orange and change the notation method on player indication to roman numerals, and change gamemode names FFA - Singles FFT - Pairs Teams will remain as teams. Thank you for reading this and make sure to join just to try a game. You can join an unrated singles game where you wont prejudice anyone else or lose rating. Try it out, now that its easier with the sandbox!

disclaimer i didnt come up with this henry the 8th chess club you can sacrifice you queen as much as you like but the first 4 moves if you dont sacrifice your queen you will loose

Hi! I am co-founder of the fast-growing variant "8 player chess" I would like to share it to you all: 1. Board This variant is played over a 24x24 board 2. Gamemodes there are 3 gamemodes: FFA - Free for all (goal: earn points and win) FFT - Free for Teams (goal: earn points and win) Teams (goal: checkmate the opponent team) 3. Variations There are many variations you can use in this variant. You can use one of the standard variations or create your own More information To play, join the 8 player chess club The club is going to become official. join or take a look Currently, we use a forum correspondence method with image editing. BUT, there is being developing a system by @ollie_g that allows drag-and-drop and creates the final image (available in a few weeks) and a complete app by me (featuring collective board, game chat and team chat, personal account, a categorized forum, etc.) We DO have a rating system created by me So, why to doubt? join now 8 player chess!

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I’m kinda surprised NO1s else has thought of this b4! But anyway, here it is: pieces can share a square.

Simple! When pieces capture a piece, it gains the powers of the piece it captures.

Any piece can fly away and return at a different square.

every move the board mirrors. for example: white plays e4 black plays e5 and then the board mirrors, it would look like this: em passant does not apply. you can still promote. whites first move:

Simple: 10 x 8 board, with a prince next to the king, and a princess next to the queen. If the king or queen is captured/checkmated, the prince or princess becomes the king or queen. The prince moves like the king but doesn’t have any check-rules, i.e. royalty. The princess moves like a queen with a limited range of two squares up, down, sideways, or diagonal. Also, when a prince/princess stays on the a or j ranks for two moves, it loses royalty and becomes a commoner, moving like a king but can’t promote to a king or queen if they get checkmated or captured. One more thing: Pawns can promote to a knight, bishop, rook, queen, prince, princess, or king. When pawns promote to a king then the opposing player has to checkmate both. If there is a possible move, when the king gets checkmated and there is no prince, the pawn can promote to a king the next move IF that square is not attacked Do you like it?

Board: Main Rules: The game is played on a 10 x 10 board, with additional files for the new Marshal (Knight/Rook) and Cardinal (Knight/Bishop), which are both placed on the king side. Because of the larger board size, most of the starting pieces are moved up one rank, with the exception of the rooks which remain in the last ranks. In addition to the pieces and setup, there are three other significant differences: Pawns can promote when reaching the eighth or ninth rank. Promotion must happen upon reaching the 10th rank. If not possible (see next point), then the pawn can’t move. Pawns can only promote to pieces of the same color that have been lost. There is no castling. Special Piece 1: The Marshal The marshal is a piece that can move like a rook and knight combined. When writing the move use the letter M. e.g. 1. Mg4 or 1. Md1 Above are some examples of how the marshal looks. Special Piece 2: Cardinal The cardinal is a piece that can move like a bishop and knight combined. When writing the move use the letter C. e.g. 1. Cf4 or 1. Ch1 Above are some examples of how the cardinal looks. Strategy: Relatively little is known about many of the variants here. Creativity and attention to detail are always important. And so the following advice is tentative. Try not to make "routine" developing moves. Sometimes it is worth spending more time to reposition fewer pieces optimally, rather than to develop many pieces suboptimally in less time. Even the variants which appear to resemble chess cannot be played with routine chess moves for very long. Whoever answers the below tactic correctly first will be the first contestant to play with me. Explanation required for points. Good Luck!!! Should black trade the queen for the marshal?

So this new variant will be called Acceleration chess. Basically, it's normal chess but you can make 2 moves in 1 turn if you want to. You can use it 3 times in one game and here are some rules to make the acceleration skill not too op. Rule 1: You can't move one piece twice during the acceleration skill Ex: When you play e4 and Bc4, you can't accelerate and go Qf3 or Qh5 and then go Qxf7 mate as it is moving the queen twice during the acceleration skill. (You can, however, move the queen on your second turn and in your 3rd turn, accelerate and go Bc4 and then Qxf7 mate as it is moving the Bishop and the Queen.) Rule 2: You have to get out of check immediately and you can't be in check during the acceleration skill Ex: When your opponent checks you, you can use your acceleration skill but you have to get out of check during the first move. Another ex: You can't move an absolutely pinned piece unless you unpin it in the first acceleration move. You can move it in the second acceleration move if you get unpinned during your first acceleration move. Rule 3: You can check during your first acceleration, but, however, you cannot check again after the first acceleration as double check will be too op lol Rule 4: Acceleration has a cooldown of 3 turns before you can use it again. How does it sound? Is it good? You can criticize me in the comments and suggest what to fix to make it more fun.

Chessguy149 plays as white, Superstargod as black. Rules Strategies

AliRockStar is white, M_Svat is black. Rules Strategies

Superstargod plays as white, chessguy149 as black. Rules Strategies

starting position: if you're going to move a knight, u have to capture a piece with it. first one to capture all opponents' knights wins

This variant is called counter check. So basically the second check wins. The players have to react to the second check, or if they don't you can capture their king. If this was a real game white would be totally winning because they'd be up a bishop. But in the new variant i created we can play Bxf2 from black side. The players have to react to the second check. I made this variant so that people have a chance in middle games where one side has a huge attack, but the other side loses by one tempo or something (hope you get what i mean)