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Classic chess, but with the addition of four new pieces, which are placed on the last line (1 horizontal for white, 8 for black) New pieces: Hawk - moves like bishop+knight. Elephant - moves like rook+knight Prime-minister - moves like bishop+king Dragon - moves like rook+king

I haven't been online for a while and I just saw the chess.com/variants-test thing, and are all of those variants gonna be put on the "real" server? idk. I dont understand some of those variants

Casual games! Unrated games.

art by me

On the board.Their is a wazir instead rook,ferz instead bishop,xiangqi horse. alibaba instead queen.and the pawn is the royal piece (e1.e8) https://www.chesshouse.com/collections/unique-chess-sets (This doesn't matter with my idea.but i'd like you to watch.not buy)

i cant go to the chat boxthis always happens

This is how page will look in Russian

So I found the varients test page yesterday, and I made a bookmark for it, but when I click on it, it shows Connecting... and it doesn't change... Note: this was copied from the chess.com beta club

I have heard some unfortunate news that all variants are going to be removed later today

Idk why but whenever I go to 4 player chess there are at least 1 game or none. I think a cause might be that players rather don’t know how to create a game or they don’t know that they made a private instead of public. Post your reasons in the comments (if you want it just helps).

1. New players who visit chesscom variants may experience two barriers that will prevent them from becoming at least semi-regular players. First off, they may become 1.overwhelmed by the number of variants. Secondly, they are likely to pick 2.variants or time controls they are statistically unlikely to prefer. While there are many other (most outside of our control) things that hurt player retention, these are two that can be controlled. 2. It is in our best interest to fix these issues. I have heard many people make the argument that new players should choose what they prefer for themselves. While this is perfectly fine for experienced players, exposing new players to non-beginner friendly variants or time controls hurts both variants and new players. New players A. Don't know what they prefer and B. Are likely to play the first variant that pops up. It is important that the "first variant that pops up" is statistically likely to be what they prefer. There is a simple way to solve this issue. With the exception of the best ten or so variants and their main time control, all other variants should be locked to players until they have played a couple games. This solves both problems. New players are unlikely to be overwhelmed by the greatly reduced variant options while still being exposed to our best games. In addition, they it will be impossible for them to choose a bad (for them) variant. ---- When players first get on variants, it would be preferable for them to play someone their own strength. Obviously, the average person is more likely to enjoy playing someone their own strength. I think it should be considered, for our biggest variants (4pc; fog of war) to have an automatic 200+ rating ceiling for new players. --- Finally, I think, in addition to the rules, there should be an easily accessible strategy guide. This could be easily volunteer driven. I, and I'm sure many other people, would be happy to do this. This would help with the lack of easily accessible information (especially compared to this proposal) for 4pc and other games. Thank you for reading! Caleb

Umm... This is another variant that I made, and it's pretty confusing, but it's not so bad. If you like the variant, you can play it yourself (with your DIY board). Ok. Let's begin! 1. Set up Pieces are divided into two different coloured sets. While the sets may not be literally red and black, they are always referred to as "red" and "black". The players of the sets are referred to as Red and Black, respectively. Each set consists of 9 pieces: one king, one queen, one rook, one elephant, one guard, and four soldiers. The pieces are set out on a hexagonal board as shown in the diagram. There are only 61 points for pieces' movement. Pic 1: Initial position, blue pieces referred to Black, bishop-icon piece is the elephant. The correct positions of the elephant and queen may be remembered by the phrase "queen on the left" ─ i.e. the queen always begins on the left-hand side of the player. 2. How to play Red moves first, after which players alternate turns, moving or dropping one piece per turn. A piece is moved to either an unoccupied square or one occupied by an opponent's piece, which is captured and placed on the capture side of the table in plain view of both players. Captured pieces are retained in hand and can be brought back into play under the capturing player's control. On any turn, instead of moving a piece on the board, a player may select a piece in hand and place it on any empty point. 2.1. Pieces' movement The King moves and attacks 1 point in a straight line. (I think it isn't necessary to add the pic in lol) The Queen acts as the King. The Elephant moves and attacks 2 points in a straight line. It can hop over pieces. Pic 2: Elephant's movement The Rook can move and attack in a straight line from 1 to 3 points. Pic 3: Rook's movement The Guard is the most confusing. It can move and attack 1 point in a straight line and then 1 point side-outward (not straight) away (I mean it has to be 2 points far) from its former position. Pic 4: Guard's movement The Soldier acts as the Queen, but it can't move or capture backwards. Pic 5: Red soldier's movement 2.2. Dropping On any turn, instead of moving a piece on the board, a player may select a piece in hand and place it on any empty point. 3. Openings and evaluation Yeah... This is the new game, and I don't have so much time to find openings for this game. So, can you help me, please? I can only find 2 openings, and they are on the list: List of openings STT Name of openings How many moves will it take? Is it good for Red? Why? / Why not? 1 Left-centred pawn opening 1 Yes Red will get some advantage by taking the centre first and fast-developing. 2 Left-side castling 4 No It's wasting time. Black will get more time to develop, battery up the important lines, wrap more space, and get a huge advantage. Also help me evaluate the game, please. (:

Alice chess - Wikipedia This seems like a very interesting variant

This is the giveaway championship and to sign up just say join and your current rating! Pepole here @cFlour Pupose to see who is the giveaway chess champion! Format: Single Elimination 2+5 time control who ever gets the mos t points ingore draws 1 round per week Rules Please do not cheat in any way Please be a good sport Obey the Variants forum rules when reporting results and put the links to the game Prizes Pending thats it good luck

Hi, I love this variant and have been looking for a more truer form of chess (just my opinion). And it seems that not many share my view on this matter as there aren't many players playing this variant. This being said, I would love to be able to play against some bots and wondering if there are any plans to retrofit the current AI system to handle "capturing anything"

so I know the variants system is in a much better place than it was around this same time last year, but the ratings for variants especially atomic seem very inflated people that are rated 1900 dont play like 1900 and even I a 2200 am only a mere 1800 on other sites. I think the amount of rating you get needs to be scaled down as well as matchmaking, I feel as if most of the time im being matched up against people who have just started the game . its not a big problem as I know its just a variant in a small community but it would be nice to have a rating that means something as well as good opponents now and then

I want to start tournaments of some quality on chess.com for Giveaway but it's hard to when It's too difficult to reach people of the news. If we had a link to the verified Giveaway club then people would get more access to the community. Sadly even long term regular Giveaway players don't know about the club; also all other main variants should have verified clubs as well. Do i really have to make them first and invite people manually? :triumph: Beside the variant lobby link would be great. Big bold letters to have the people see it.

There is a new atomic chess website where if you have an atomic title, you may redeem https://liatomic.com our titles are based on your highest lichess and titles are given as followsA4 - This title for 1000-1399 rated playersA3 - This title for 1400-1599 rated playersA2 - This title for 1600-1799 rated playersA1 - This title for 1800-1949 rated playersAM - This title for 1950-1999 rated playersACM - This title for 2000-2099 rated playersAIM - This title for 2100-2199 rated playersAGM - This title for 2200-2399 rated playersASGM - This title for players that have more than 2400 rating

soon...very soon...

Just wanted to say happy new year!!! Hopefully 2022 will be better!