Hello, I found a bug/visual error in atomic chess. If you draw arrows or annotations onto pieces and then change your view to full screen, the board will resize but the annotations will remain the same as if the board was not resized. This can be seen here when I switched viewing modes. Additionally, a similar issue appears when the window is resized. I reported this issue 20 days ago, and have gotten little response, so I'm posting it here because it might get more attention.
JkCheeseChess Jun 13, 2023
and this "ghost" en passant move in seirawan was like this: d4 h5 d5 e5 until dxe6 where the ghost en passant or en passant happens but remember this is only pawn moves.
MapleSyrup4444 Jun 12, 2023
I don’t know if this suggestion should go in this group or in the beta test group, but here it is. On people’s profiles, you see their various ratings (including bughouse!). I think that at the bottom, there should be a variants section (with the variants icon), and it would list the variants that you’ve played (it would say something like “Teams, 3+, King of the Hill,… and 4 more”), but it wouldn’t show the rating right there. You’d have to click through to see all the different ratings. Alternatively, it would be a twirl-down menu and you could see all the variants ratings right there without clicking through. I just find it a little annoying how hard it currently is to find out someone’s variants ratings.
EnCroissantCheckmate Jun 11, 2023
They would have to guide restrictions so that players could still win quickly. If you can veto any move you want, there is no “Fool’s Mate” because, for example, White just vetoes Qh4 with pawns on f3 or f4 and g4 and a Black pawn on e6 or e5.
Regicide chess is capture the king and taboo is no captures so why not combine them?
Arjun1516 Jun 11, 2023
I just lost a game of "Variant: Petrified" I do not know why or how , but the opponent just claimed the win in a lost position. Is there a special rule or something that i missed? Here is the game link : https://www.chess.com/variants/petrified/game/49759345/65/3
Arjun1516 Jun 5, 2023
Like normal chess, but if you take a piece, the capturing piece becomes the captured one here. Here is an example: When the knight captures, it will become a pawn.
Tomato_LSN Jun 5, 2023
Read this article and you’ll know about it. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/12/we-have-a-winner-in-the-worlds-first-quantum-chess-tournament/?amp=1 Just an idea, I think it would be really cool to have quantum chess in chess.com.
Tomato_LSN Jun 5, 2023
does anyone know some piece values for the game?
riccuadra May 30, 2023
It's Chess, but if a piece move then it keeps moving in that direction until it captures or can't move any further in that direction.Knights will also move in that same movement trajectory (like a Knight-rider) but can't land on it's own pieces or into a wall so just moves until no more moves are valid.
kirfickleslups May 28, 2023
What is the theoretical ratings range (the lowest ratings possible to the highest ratings possible) of the Chess.com Variants? What is the lowest Variants ratings reached by Chess.com players?
JkCheeseChess May 19, 2023
Here's a bug that seems to come and go for me. When it happens it's annoying and it continues irrespective of which browser I'm using, or if I exit and restart my browser, so I presume it's a problem on the server. When in the "Watch" area of 4PC I'll click on a game and, if I'm eligible to play, I get a "Play" button and an "Exit" button at the bottom of the right hand column.If I click on either of these menus I am taken to some player's profile. It is generally a player I know, and sometimes is someone offering to friend. On a given day it's always the same player, and it happens EVERY time I click down there. On some days when this starts happening I'll hit Play and in addition to having that game added to my pending challenges I'm taken to the other player's profile. On other days it will not be added to my pending challenges, and the only way I can join games is in the Play or Lobby areas.Two days ago it was doing this, for about half a day, and an additional behaviour (which I'm unsure was part of the same bug or something else) my pending challenges would randomly disappear.Today it's behaving properly.
nora_master May 15, 2023
Chess but each player makes three moves at a time.
Green_Sleeves May 14, 2023
https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/47785407/12/1 speaks for itself
Max_Wolfe May 11, 2023
Is it a draw if one player only has a king and the other player loses one time? In regular chess that would obviously be a draw due to insufficient material, but in duck chess technically the player with just the king could still win if the opposing player moved his king to the wrong square.
ZurichGhost May 5, 2023
R-0,1,0,1-1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-0,0,0,0-0- {'lives: ('5,5,5,5),'pawnBaseRank':5,'wb':true,'noCorners':true}-yW,yI,yS,yW,yI,yS,yK,yF,yS,yI,yW,yS,yI,yW/yP,yP,yα,yβ,yγ,yδ,yδ,yδ,yδ,yγ,yβ,yα,yP,yP/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/rP,rP,rα,rβ,rγ,rδ,rδ,rδ,rδ,rγ,rβ,rα,rP,rP/rW,rI,rS,rW,rI,rS,rK,rF,rS,rI,rW,rS,rI,rW is the FEN. Rules: Check 5 times is checkmate Stalmate=Draw Bare Piece Rule Pawns promote to a alfil, ferz, wazir, or a dabada on the 7th rank Any capture (make it real! sacrifice your army in a war) What do you think? And should I call it just mini war?
ChessMasterGS May 3, 2023

Quick Links to other official variants clubs:


Chess.com Community Championships




Variant tournament schedule
on the Live Chess server

Format Time Control Start Time (PT)
Bughouse
Arena 3+0 4:15, 10:15, 16:15, 22:15
Crazyhouse
Arena 1+0 2:45, 5:45, 8:45, 11:45, 14:45, 17:45, 20:45, 23:45
Arena 3+0 3:15, 9:15, 15:15, 21:15
Swiss 1+0 00:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40, 12:40, 15:40, 18:40, 21:40
Swiss 3+0 00:20, 6:20, 12:30, 18:20
3 Check
Arena 1+0 2:45, 5:45, 8:45, 11:45,
14:45, 17:45, 20:45, 23:45
Arena 3+0 3:15, 9:15, 15:15, 21:15
Swiss 1+0 00:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40, 12:40, 15:40, 18:40, 21:40
King of the Hill
Arena 1+0 00:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45, 12:45, 15:45, 18:45, 21:45
Arena 3+0 00:15, 6:15, 12:15, 18:15
Swiss 1+0 2:40, 5:40, 8:40, 11:40,
14:40, 17:40, 20:40, 23:40
Swiss 3+0 3:20, 9:20, 15:20, 21:20
Live960
Arena 3+0 2:15, 8:15, 14:15, 20:15
Swiss 3+0 5:20, 11:20, 17:20, 23:20
Swiss 10+0 2:35, 8:35, 14:35, 20:35

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