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People are talking a lot about the new bot, Mittens. Well, I want to see Mittens play 4PC and Gothic and Duck Chess and some of the other variants.

Red’s one:https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/33584554 Green’s:https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/33572646/34/1 In the first game, I was about to promote, and I saw the Berolina turn into a king, but it then went back, and I can’t move it again. I’m sure this game has sideways, and the Berolina is on the 6th rank, the promotion rank. Please fix this glitch, thanks

Millennium Chess is played on an 8 by 15 size chess-board, and each player controls nearly twice as many pieces (two queens, two kings, four bishops, etc.). Most of the rules of the game are the same, with some special rules regarding capturing and check-mating the kings. A player's first king can be left in danger of capture and actually captured - once the first king is captured, the remaining king can then be put in check and check-mate as in normal chess. Millennium Chess is played on a 15 x 8 board, divided into 120 squares that alternate in color. This is very similar to the same set up on the Classical Chess board. Our squares are designed so that you get feel that the playing area is the same as it is on a regular chess board. All moves on Millennium Chess Game Board are no different then playing regular classical chess. The goal of the game is to win by trapping your opponent’s king (known as checkmate). Rules White is always first to move and players take turns moving one piece at a time. Movement is required, no passing is allowed. Each type of piece has its own type of movement. A piece may be moved to another empty square or may capture an opponent’s piece. Capturing is done by landing on the occupied square by the opponent’s piece and removing the opponent’s piece from play. With the exception of the knight, a piece may not move over or through any of the other pieces. There are a few new rules to the game to compensate for extra playing pieces (such as the King): * Dark pieces must be set up on white corners. White pieces must be set up on dark corners. * When pawns make it to the opposing back row, only pieces already captured can be reinstated. (Example: You lose a Knight. If that is your only man captured by the time your pawn reaches the back row, only your Knight can be reinstated.)* The first King to be captured is called your “Keystone” King. Once captured, the Keystone King cannot be placed back on the board for the duration of your game.* Respect Thy Queen! When setting up the board, Queens are always placed on their color. White queens on white squares, dark queens on dark squares.* You can only be placed in “Check” after one of your Kings has already been captured.* Kings cannot “Castle” past the center Rook, nor from end to end.* When only one King remains, that King cannot “Castle” to remove himself from Check.* In Classic Chess, a player cannot “Castle” if an opponent’s piece intervenes or intersects with the castling area. In “Millennium Chess”, when a player has 2 Kings on the board, some normal King rules are suspended. Therefore, this is the one time a player may “Castle” through an intervened area or “Castle the King out of Jeopardy”.* Players should not announce when they are taking their opponent’s first King.

Elimination Chess logo hints Think of it like this But the pawn is black This is just my opinion. What do you think?

Please, please, make it more moble friendly. Because it sometimes gets anoying not seeing every thing.

That means checking mating either king or taking both Kings to win!!

i thought i had posted in this club but i forgor 💀 here is link to regular chess.com forum where i posted. i also have played one game against an irl friend who's also on chess.com

I have heard that after 1.e3 its a guaranteed win for white with perfect play. Then why hasn't someone memorised all the lines yet and has won every game that he plays? Also what are the billions of lines that I need to memorise? Also are there concepts behind every move in the sequence?

the catch is "you can only play with knights"

Hello, I recently had a lot of fun playing a variant I am calling Doubles Chess. The principal idea of it is that on each turn, you get to move twice. I suggested this to chess.com and they said I should also post it here and get the opinions of the community, so here it is: Here are the rules:1. The main rule is that each person gets two moves per turn. This means that on your turn, you get to move twice. You can make any two moves you want as long as they don't break the other rules. The moves can be any pieces, they don't have to be the same piece twice. 2. If you are put in check, your first move has to be to escape or block that check. You cannot wait until your second move to get out of check. 3. If you check your opponent on the first move of your turn, you do not get a second move. 4. You cannot move through check on your turns. 5. The game cannot end in the king being taken, it must end in checkmate, stalemate, or a draw of some other kind. The king cannot be taken. 6. In one turn, if you move a piece on your first move, you cannot move it back to the same square on your second move unless it has taken a piece or it is a pawn that promoted. I have a lot of fun playing this, so if you think this would be a fun variant feel free to show your support!

I was so happy to see the announcement of Setup Chess, as I have contemplated such variants myself. After a couple games, I quickly realized that the variant is broken. Large groups of bishops give a lot of "bang for the buck" and are simply too powerful. So there's not much point in selecting other pieces, so it's rather monotonous. Perhaps there could be some kind of adjustment to avoid this. E.g.: 1) Market prices: Piece "prices" are not fixed, but depend on how often a piece is selected (e.g. queens at 8.4 and bishops at 3.2) 2) Overloading penalty: Pieces get more expensive if you select more than 2 of the same kind (e.g. first 2 bishops cost 3, the 3rd bishop costs 4) However, I feel such adaptions make the game a bit too convoluted. But I think some kind of setup chess is the best way to play chess, as there's no opening theory and you can start planning and outsmarting your opponent already before the moves start. This works very well in a game like Arimaa. Here's how I would do it if I could make my own variant: 1) The 16 pawns are placed on their regular positions on 2nd and 7th row. 2) Black player draws a random piece from the 16 other pieces and places it on the board, in any position behind the pawns of its own color. 3) White player draws a random piece from the remaining 15 and places is. 4) Proceed until all pieces have been placed 5) White makes first move and play follows DFRC rules (Double Fischer Random Chess) Any thoughts?

One idea I was having for a variant is one, in which pieces can capture pawns En Passant by going to the square the pawn passed through So for instance here if White Played c4 the black Bishop could capture the white c pawn En Passant by going behind it.

Hi all! Recently I sent a message to Chess.com regarding a new Chess variant, but they said I should probably also forward it here to get some opinions from the community, so here it is: Terachess on Jocly Game Control I'm proposing for the Chess.com Variants Team to add to the website my personal favourite Chess variant: Terachess! Terachess is a variant of Chess where the board is much, and I mean MUCH bigger (16x16 to be exact); there are a ton of new pieces (64 pieces per side! You can read about how each piece moves on the link section at the bottom.); and a lot of chaos and fun to be had. Although the mechanics of the game and the goal (checkmate the King) is still the exact same as in regular Chess, in terms of Chess variants which add new "fairy" pieces to the game this has got to be the most creative and fun one that I have tried so far. Currently, however, it is impossible to play Terachess online against other people, which is why it would be great if it could be added to Chess.com, also so that more people can learn about it. That's basically it! Let me know what you all think, and if you agree that Terachess is suitable enough to be added as a Chess variant to Chess.com, I guess feel free to show your support by liking this topic! Thanks guys, and thanks Chess.com for replying to my suggestion Some useful links: - Learn the rules of Terachess: http://abstractstrategygames.blogspot.com/2010/10/fairy-chess.html - Did you know that there is already a Terachess 2? http://history.chess.free.fr/terachess.htm - Currently, if you want to actually play Terachess and try it out for yourself, you can actually do it here (but only against the computer!): https://mi-g.github.io/jocly/examples/browser/control.html?game=tera-chess

I've been experimenting with the FEN4 parameters recently and I found one that looks like this which I haven't been able to figure out what it does: 'royal8x8': ('','','','') does anyone have any idea? (I've tried setting royal pieces on an 8 by 8 board, that only changed the royal parameter)

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My friends and I play 1 day / 3 day / 7 day chess almost exclusively. Largely because we like to put in a couple of moves at lunch or during downtime at work, but don't want to synchronize our schedules or commit a large chunk of our day to playing a game. Is there any way to play variants like this? The longest I seem to be able to make a game is 30 minutes. The few times I have played variants with my friends, it's been great fun, but we'd love to be able to play these more regularly.

The game ends with the king being captured. However, the outcome of the game depends on the numbr of bishops (black and white combined)that are still left in the game. If there is an even number of bishops in play you win if you capture the opponents king.If there is an odd number of bishops in play you lose if you capture the opponents king. Additionally capture is compulsory when there's an odd numbers of bishops on the board.Example Game: 1.bxc5(capture is now compulsory) Qxg2 2.Kxg2 d5 3.Bxd5 Bd3 4.Bxd3(rules are normal again f3+ 5.Kf2 fxd3( rules are inverted again) 6.Kxf3: And the game goes on. Example Position: White to move, wins. Example position 2: white loses because the game ends when the king is captured,not when the pawn promotes.

I recently started dabbling with 3-check chess which is fun, and I wonder now is there any defense at all against 1. e4? The common answer to 1. e4 seems to be 1. .. e6 which is a good move, but often white gets much more space in the center as a result, and ultimately wins the game quite often. Of course black can move the knights in the first move but this tends to lead to similar positions with just a different move order. Thoughts?

Chess, but with a whole new twist that requires both luck and skill. You start the game with a 52-deck card. Each player gets 7 cards. Before you move, you pick a card and then move. The cards can give you an advantage or a disadvantage. Some of the cards would say: Make a normal moveLose a turn Randomly gives you a pieceRandomly takes away a pieceMove twice in a rowForces you to move a piece, if possible. These are some suggestions that would need to be refined.

I am having issues connecting to the variants server, but not to other areas on chess.com. I was in the middle of an atomic match when I was having disconnection issues. Can anyone help me? Thank you all!