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I wonder who invented this one and when? Someone here at chess.com or elsewhere?

Does anyone know the name of the variant where squares marked with an x don’t exist on the board? I couldn’t find it anywhere

queens are also subject to check and checkmate. Queens can also castle both ways. Same castling rules apply. When pawns promote to queen, that queen is also subject to check and checkmate.

call it "Capture All". The goal is to capture all the pieces, including the king. Not sure why this isn't there already.

Hi guys can you tell me what is the fastest checkmate in XXL chess?

The rules are the same, as regular chess, except for this changes. And the change is several variants of castling. Short castle (0-0) Long castle (0-0-0) Long kingside castling (K0-0-0) In this castling, white king going on f1 and white rook going on e1. This is one move. Short queenside castle(Q0-0) In this castling, white king going on b1 and white rook going on c1.

Missile, bombs, nukes and tanks. Make your creativity fascinating and cool.

Hey everyone! In 2012 I had a crazy idea: what if not just material and position is important in chess, but also the number of squares you own? I loved the idea so much that I hired a programmer and made a game out of it: Economy Chess There was a small community on chess.com playing it and it could be downloaded in the now long gone chess.com/download section. And I had it on my laptop. But it died and I forgot about it. However, I wanted to play it again and a former admin of the group still had the game! So its possible to play again! You can download it here Economy Chess Download (windows)I understand that people don't like to just open a .exe that some random dude posts on a public forum. Unfortunately I cannot do anything else than to promise you that it's not a virus, it's just the game. How to play Economy Chess? See all the rules here in a 4 minute videoThese are videos of example games: Boletus_CZ vs DeKaleaas and another game These are the basics: conquering a square on the board Getting income from the board: #squares - #of pieces = income Purchasing pieces with your money: only on squares you own Unfortunatly when you open the game, the defaultsettings are not selected. These are the default settings. Those are the rules that play best, the other are variations on the rules.

two kings. win by defeating both. when a king is checkmated, it is gone from the board. same rules of chess apply, except: pawns can promote to king, but no matter how many kings there are on the board, the opposing player has to defeat all of them. castling works both ways, but castling with both kings you need to castle on the shorter side. starting position:

My knight is stuck it cannot move beacause a rook is stuck to it

I think an interesting variant would be one, in which one player would have the same visibility as in Fog of War, but the other player can see the entire board. I think this might work provided that the player who has the same visibility as in Fog of War has more material at the start than the player who can see the entire board.

Variant 1:Black starts with no Queen, but white is blinded by love, so fog of war vision applies to white, while black can see the whole board all time Variant 2: Normal fog of war chess, but if you have no queens (of your color) on the board you gain full vision of the board

Standard chess setup, except that there are no chess pieces on the first and last rank. The rest of the pieces appear on the board during the game. The movement of pieces and their 'reproduction'. Chess pieces move across the board as they do in ordinary chess - according to the standard rules of move and capture. After a piece leaves the square on which it stood, a new chess piece appears on this square, according to the following chain of cycles: Pawn - Knight - Bishop - Rook - Queen - King.Thus, after the pawn's move, a knight appears on the square where this pawn stood. On the square where the knight stood, after its movement, the bishop appears, and so on until the king appears. So one piece generates (or spawns, idk which word is better) another, and only the king does not generate any pieces during its movement. With each move, the fields of the board fill up, turning a chess battle into an unprecedented opposition of chess pieces. The advantage of the first move in the 'Battle of the Kings' does not matter at all, since by making the first move you trigger a self-destruction mechanism - sooner or later all your pieces will evolve, filling the surrounding space, and a collapse will occur. If you let your opponent do it first, then you have won. The paradox of the game is that, on the one hand, you have to fight for living space, constantly increasing your strength and power, and on the other hand, do not become a victim of your own strength and power. It is not possible to calculate anything in this game. We can be guided by intuition and instincts, which tell us that the appearance of kings should be postponed as late as possible, and hence the appearance of queens and rooks is not desirable. However, for each move a new piece appears on the board, and the appearance of new pieces, and more senior in the rank, cannot be avoided. Nevertheless, in all this chaos there is strict harmony and consistency, although what is happening on the board is difficult to explain. More here https://www.chess.com/blog/Pokshtya/battle-of-the-kings-is-a-chess-variant-that-drives-you-crazy and here https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/battle-of-kings-

Would do you like this. Share with your opinion. Here is the rules: Pieces transform into more or less powerful pieces when they move.

The rules are the same, as regular chess, except for this changes. True, the goal is to checkmate any opponent's piece. Example: But, you can mate ONLY the opponent's pieces, not pawns

I don't see many people playing historic variants but wouldn't a variant as complex as Tamerlane chess be quite the attraction? Of course, it's easier said than done as it would take a lot of coding effort but what do you all think about adding this variant?

So I have posted a forum about the Reinforcement chess, and just wondering if it would get added

You can't win by KotH (bring king to the center) because there's black hole in center. Why it's allowed?

How about adding flairs for variants that can be shown next to username? (e.g ☢️ for atomic chess)

So u guys must have realized hey! this is a variants club so u click join then what are u supposed to do? Maybe we should chat in the chat or type in the notes, so u do. But after that u think it's boring just to do that so u leave. What are u supposed to do in this club???