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I really don't like it because it's inaccurate and moreover, it infantilizes the chess variants family. It's like saying that if you don't play orthodox you believe in fairies, and it's not that there couldn't be some pieces that are fairy themed. Without going too deep, the sage from courier chess represents a wizard, even I am not against mystical thematic, it's just that it's not just all and by this means it's not representative of all the variants family.The most popular chess sets in the history of occidental culture, are medieval warfare representations, and in my opinion that must stay a canon, what's metaphysical in an archbishop or a chancellor? they are real medieval figures! Should I not say that some variants nomenclature gets me sick, terms like alice chess, grasshopper, amazon, nuclear, lion, wolf, should be avoided and employed only once duke, count, prince, page and all other names are exausted, that's my opinion.Going back to the topic, the term variant is accurate but vague and misleading because it misleads with chess openings that are also called variants.I sugest that instead we use the terms extension,extended and non-standard, as is used in other type of games, because they are accurate and respectfull, we play extended chess games with extended chess sets, in extended boards with extension pieces, not fairies. However it's all chess and mad queen is just another variant of chess, I'm getting back on my words but I can't stay away from the fact that mad queen is considered standard, so in that pov the terms variants, unorthodox, extension and non-standard are ok when talking relative to fide standard, but by no means fairy, please stop using fairy as a term in this site.

Pls help me, I don't want play games with he. What I should do? I block him - but he still accept my challenges. I aborted games with him - and I got ban for 5 minutes. Thank you!

RULES:A cube says what piece you'll move. what do u think

(a.k.a. piece removal chess?) It'd be just like standard chess, except instead of moving a piece, you can remove it if it's legal in the traditional way (i.e. it doesn't discover your check on your King and similar). I found the idea here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/hypothetical-rule-changes I'd REALLY like to have this variant available at least somewhere online, so if you know any site that hosts it (or a way I could make it), please do tell me.

Teams Antichess obviously is played with two teams with 2 players each. But what if 1 player played for both of the team's colors. So one player plays red/yellow and the other plays blue/green. What do you think?

Make a board where each user can store it's personal chess army on a template instead of the whole board, so the contrincants could also use their own templates against each other.Two constraints to have in account: board size (mandatory) and army power in centipawns (the sum of the value of every piece in the template.By now my preferred army is fide because im not familiar yet with any other but i'll find one.

For those who haven't noticed, here's what you are really looking at ..point being the 4pc supports a boatload of variants already, but was lacking "2 player friendliness".All 4player games will eventually move over here to variants and the old 4player chess server will retire.

What if we have a variant that is normal chess BUT pawns can move 3 squares if they are on the second rank? Any suggestions?

Similar to crazyhouse, like fide but captured pieces return to it's intial square instead of dissapearing from the board. If the initial square of a piece that was taken is occupied already it will regenerate once this square is freed. Piece regeneration acts inmediately after capture and has no effect on turnss, in variance of bug house. If a piece of your's is captured you must put it back in it's initial square if allowed to and then you can make your move. If you know how to play this game with me online you can message me.

I did the bong cloud opening in the variant >No castling< and my opponent resigned after he lost his bishop. The match was like this: Can I show the link of the game where it happened? I dont want to embarass people.

Is it possible to add the original chess set for Gothic chess?In general, I think that we need a more stylish design for the fairy pieces. The present versions aren't that bad, but I think that we need some changes.

You could look at my profile and noticeI haven't played racing kings, but I do play in lichess so here we go! 1. What is the goal? 2. Where do kings start? (coordinates) 3. Can you check? 4. Can you checkmate? 5. Is 1 .Nxc1 by white possible? 6. What is the first best move for white? 7. What is the best response of black after white's best move? 8. What is (are) the best piece (s) ? 9. Is the queen really the most powerful 10. What date did chess.com out this mode? Winner gets 1 trophy! @rune_raider, u already won a lot so you won't participate.

in the variants we should add checkers to the others variants it's not really a chess variant but I think people would really play it and like it.

I was way ahead in a game of Fog of War but when I moved my pieces they moved back and my clock timed out. Every move I tried it wouldn't accept. And it didn't say I had disconnected

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/15482162 Why Kh2 on move 5 for white??? Why not Ah2 or Mh2??????

Hi! Under "Custom challenge" there is a "rating range" setting and I can't figure out how to make it work. It sometimes seems to work (waits several minutes to start a game with an opponent in the selected range), but most often it does not (starts a game right away with an opponent outside the selected range). Can someone explain the steps to make it work? After clicking "customize", do I have to click "done" before clicking on "Play" or do I have to keep it open and click "Play" right away? Or something else entirely? Thanks for your help PS: I want to play standard fog of war with lower rating range -200

I played Horde, but I got a strong opponent and I lost :-( It's a shame :-( Very-Very. That's why I always come across tough opponents ?! Either the site mocks, or a stupid random, well, or I'm stupid ... Well, you understand what you think?

Hello! I enjoy playing fog of war, it's my favorite variant. Does anyone have any tips for fog of war? For me it's just random and hoping your opponent made a blunder. Any strategies?

When u capture, that pc is frozen. So if u capture everything everything is frozen. So kings can’t capture. There is something abt this that makes me not like this new variant...idk

I was experimenting a little bit with the openings in FoW recently.I'm not such a good player in this variant, and whenever I was trying to play normally against higher rated players, they somehow have been revealing where is my king and crushing me almost instantly.What do you think about the early pushing a4 and h4 (trying to hide where is your king)? I came up with this crazy solution and also pushed all the pawns to the 4-th rank (as white) and that worked:https://www.chess.com/variants/fog-of-war/game/16714783/35/1