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1: chess.com variants pros: -Easiest option -theres a lot of rules options -large community (kinda of) -you can easily save your variants and even publish them cons: -no option of making custom fairy chess pieces 2: omnichess.club pros: -you can make your own individual fairy chess pieces, save them and use them in a variant -the second easiest option on this list -you can make a 2PC variant up to 8PC variant (but there’s no option of using bots) -you can make variants where players can make multiple moves -you can save your variants, and even play them with bots (unfortunately I don’t think the option of publishing still works in 2024) cons: -its probably the worst option in this list when it comes to rules, the only rules you can set are stalemate, promotion, castling, en passant, moves per turn, and win condition -the only fairy chess pieces you can make are: Leapers, Sliders, Leaper riders, limited sliders, pieces with different move and capture, and pieces can’t have more than 24 move capacities 3: Making a variant playable with fairy stockfish (ini file) Pros: -This is the best option when it comes to rules -You can make fairy chess pieces Cons: -the second hardest option on this list -the board size can’t be bigger than 12 files and 10 ranks -even after finishing the ini file it’s hard to show to people -the option of making fairy chess pieces is really limited 4: making a interactive diagram for chessvariants.com pros: -you can make nearly any fairy chess piece you can imagine -its also pretty good even it comes to rules -you can easily this to make the code for the diagram cons: -its really hard to save, to save a interactive diagram you need to create a page on chessvariants.com, which requires HTML, making it the hardest the hardest option on this list

Hi, some chess variants I introduced (along with some other existing variants) are presented at this github page. I am presenting variants in 3 categories:1) Good for learning chess [could be used in coaching] (e.g. chess 960).2) To promote chess [could be used in fun events] (e.g. human chess).3) Just for fun (e.g. 4-player chess).

The value of a fairy chess piece is subjective yet objective I don’t know how do we know how much a fairy chess piece is worth? in my opinion the Rook, Wildebeest and General are all worth the same (5 points) but most people say the general is worth 6 points and I even saw some people saying it’s worth 6.75 (only 2.25 less than a Queen!), and someone told me the Wildebeest is worth 5.5 points (I know it’s only 0.5 point more than a Rook but I don’t know why people always underestimate the Rook infinitely long sliding moves) I also don’t know why the Non-royal King aka Mann/guard is worth the same as a Knight, in my opinion the Non-royal King is worth 2.75 at its peak during end-games I seriously don’t know how we know the value of fairy chess pieces, when I give a value to a fairy chess piece I always use my scale: Knight: 3 Bishop: 3 Queen: 9 Rook: 5 Non-Royal King: 2.75 Alibaba: 2 Alfil: 1 Dabbaba: 1 Camel: 2 Wazir: 1 Ferz: 1 and many more… the Answer is: I don’t know.

It starts as standard chess, this worls like the title says: for example: if you say "replace the queen with a rook" then the queen will be replaced with a rook you can change: Rules Pieces Board Size

Chess.com fairy chess pieces: Pawn, sergeant, berolina pawn, soldier, alfil, dabbaba, wazir and ferz: 1 grasshopper, alibaba, non royal king, alfil-rider, camel and xiangqi horse: 2 dabbaba-rider, knight and bishop: 3 alibaba-rider and camel-rider: 4 general, wildebeest and rook: 5 dragon bishop and knight-rider: 6 Archbishop and Chancellor: 7 Queen: 9 amazon: 12 Other fairy chess pieces (not present on chess.com variants): Xiangqi Cannon (a rook that must jump over a piece to capture): 3 Dragon Horse (Bishop + Wazir): 4 Dragon King (Rook + Ferz): 6 Janggi Cannon (a Rook that must jump over a piece to move or capture): 3 Zebra (3,2 Leaper): 2 Buffalo (Wildebeest + Zebra): 7

what is the best chess variant put you gess

Some chess variants have only a few added rules/changes. For others, there are several changes. At the extreme, there are a lot of changes so that one could rethink actually calling them chess variants. But, how does the dynamics of the game differ from chess?Sometimes, the change is so small but the game dynamics changes a lot (e.g. duck chess). Sometimes, there are many changes, but the game doesn't feel too different from chess. So, I invite you to rank the chess variants you are familiar with in the order of how close the game dynamic is to chess (top one closest to the game dynamic of chess, in your opinion). Please write why you think the game dynamic is close to or far from chess in a few words. The variants you include need not be playable here in chess.com, but should preferably be already recognised as a variant by chess community. Recommended formats:Format 1  <variant1>: (short reason for rank) <variant2>: (short reason for rank) Format 2 <variant1> <variant2> Reason for ranking: .....(detailed reasoning)....

1. The +# symbol should be replaced with #.  There's a variant called chess and it's literally standard chess, it says +# instead of # in the notation2. I played king of the hill but didn't get achievement for 1st koth game. same goes for 3 check and crazyhouse

do u guys still have the flair? comment  if u have

is it possible to force mate with only a king and archbishop (bishop+knight)? just wondering

Same rules like in classical chess. King moves three squares instead of two when castling. Pawns can move 1, 2 or 3 steps forward from the starting position, so that en passant capturing is two times possible (each time a pawn passes an enemy pawn by moving more than one square forward). Chancellor moves like a Knight or a Rook. Archbishop moves like a Knight or a Bishop. The Elephant moves and captures one or two squares horizontally, vertically or diagonally. It can jump over other pieces.

This is a Variant idea created by myself, i took a lot of inspiration from Ultima Chess, it has a lot of pieces with special forms of capture, there’s the initial position: And there are the pieces: King: the Exact Same as regular chess, except that it can’t do castling, it’s the royal piece Pawn: Pawns here are very different from most chess variants, it moves like a Rook but to capture it must make a sandwich of itself and 2 enemy pieces, then it captures the 2 enemy pieces: Pawns on this variants are pretty much the opposite of the pawns on Ultima Chess Crocodile: a Long Leaper from Ultima Chess that is restricted to Bishop directions Demon: a Long Leaper From Ultima Chess that is restricted to Rook directions Star: captures like a Queen but it can’t move that way without capturing, to move without capturing it moves like the last piece your opponent moved but it can’t capture that way, the value of this pieces can be different depending of what was the last piece your opponent moved, this is the only piece (other than the King) without any type of special capture Furnace: moves and captures like a Dabbaba, but when it moves or captures, any enemy piece on its path gets captured, and yes: it can capture 2 pieces in a single turn, after making 2 capturing moves it becomes a giraffe Giraffe: the giraffe on this variant is much stronger than the Giraffe of most chess variants, it moves and captures like a Zebra: a (3,2) Leaper but when it moves any enemy piece on its path gets captured: The path the Giraffe makes is: 2 squares orthogonally, one square to the side and then one square diagonally, and yes it can jump over piecesAntelope: the Antelope on this variant is probably the strongest piece on this variant: it combines King, the Long Leaper from Ultima Chess and the Withdrawer which is also from Ultima Chess, and it can capture like a Withdrawer and then capture more pieces like a Long Leaper and it also can capture like a Withdrawer and then capture one more piece like a King:Catapult: moves like a Rook but it can’t capture anything, but any friendly piece orthogonally adjacent to it can jump over the catapult and then move or capture like a Rook: The catapult is meant to support friendly piecesClown: moves like a Queen but only up to 4 squares on each direction and it can’t capture anything this way, to capture it has to capture like any enemy piece attacking it (but it can’t move this way without capturing) or like the last piece your opponent moved (but it also can’t move this way without capturing), when it captures something it also captures itself (Kamikaze capture), the Clown is more meant to be used against strong enemy pieces.Other rules:Stalemate: Stalemated player loses Pawn Promotion: Pawns don’t promote to anything Castling: there’s no casting En passant: there’s no en passant Pieces notation: King: K Antelope: A Catapult: C Crocodile: R Clown: L Demon: D Giraffe: G Furnace: F Star: S Pawn: P Feel free to rate this variant idea, I really don’t know about pieces value, you can suggest values for the pieces if you want

If white takes blacks knight then the black king can take back, but then is that a win for white or a draw? (Bare piece rule is enabled)

Probably play over top players' games? I don't find analyzing my games with an engine to be super-helpful. Playing a million games will also be helpful, but I'm looking for a more efficient method. :-)

I made my own variant comment on this to play me and I will challenge you when I can

Today's WoF "Too Much To Chew" is missing a wall on b9.

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https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/64167455

The title says it all. I think it would be cool to add a wazir-bishop hybrid piece. The main perk behind this would be that you would basically end up with a bishop that could switch from being light square to dark square and back at will. It would be a weaker version of a queen, essentially. To CGAs and Variants players: does this sound like a good idea? Would it be hard to make/code? I don't know what this piece would be called, but it could look something along these lines, graphically.