First of all, I can´t but appreciate the work of Alpha Zero team and be thankful to chess.com for making it available. That said, if they put in the effort to extensively test pawns moving always 1 square, which we all knew that can´t possibly add to chess, why not something like pawns capturing anything that gets in the way (one forward, besides the usual one diagonal). Another (worthwhile?) way to modify openings, middle games and endgames (non-castling and 960, for instance, only affect the opening stage) without bending too much. The tactics as well the overall strategy. Static positions are more or less not possible. At first I thought balance is an issue, but nah, black is fine, black has a shot even against slightly stronger players.
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pedropete1 Oct 15, 2020
Basically 2 player chess but first player to get their King to the middle, deliver 5 checks or mate wins.
the minor for 2 pawns sac attack the back rank what else?
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Crusader_For_Christ Oct 9, 2020
Combination chess-when a piece (not include pawn and king) capture a piece,it combines the power of the two pieces(example:a queen takes a knight becomes a piece that can move like a knight and a queen(amazon),a knight taking a knight is still a knight) additional rule if needed:when pawn capture a piece it becomes that piece(pawn capture bishop is bishop,pawn captures rook is rook and loses the ability to capture diagonally 1 square) another additional rule if needed:kings can combine too
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BabYagun Oct 6, 2020
i didn't even know this was possible lol
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chrisbao Oct 3, 2020
For example, the game would be much more decisive if started with 20 points. 35 points gives like 10 pawns making the game not decided upon strategy. what do you all think?
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randomperson76 Sep 27, 2020
Some IM farmed me fog of war rating but the sytem is broken and makes me loose lots of rating and keeps making me play him and etc
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???