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I think Fairy Stockfish should be added as an engine we can play against in variants, and possibly to evaluate games in variants. I think having an engine that's actually strong would be nice for variants.

During the Gupta Golden Age of the United Kingdom of Musical Instruments world, there are are references to the existence of the first clear predecessor of the Royal United Chess Association/Academy (Associazione/Accademia Scacchistica Reale Unita, ASRU) within the United Federations/Universal Federation of the Greater Game (Federazioni Unite/Federazione Universale Giocata Maggiore, F[F]U[U]GM) of the modern United Kingdom of Musical Instruments. Out of what little remains of the records of the history of this organization, archaeologists have been able to learn the rules this organization was using to govern official play: Dvisenā must allow space for a second copy of the King’s row of pieces to start on the board and only the King on the player’s second rank is royal. All Chaturanga moves are legal and the pieces must have consistent moves. (The Chaturanga Chariot was not necessarily a Chess Rook yet and multiply-colorbound pieces would often be avoided even if not strictly commanded by this rule) Any piece may promote on the ranks of the opponent’s pieces. (Promoted pieces have the moves of the Chess King and often retain their primary longer moves, but the Kings would often start promoted)

This is a new VARIANT that is very fun and has been tested and refined for over a year. The Idea is EVERY TIME ONE OF YOUR PIECES GETS CAPTURED YOU GET TO CHANGE THE VARIANT Rule doc PLZ READ : Rules document for switchy chess

1.Crazyhouse should have these fixes :- point mode-Instead of getting the piece,we get the points to buy new piece.It will be more flexible. Seirawan rule-We should get a option for selecting Crazywan rule and one for keeping crazyhouse and seirawan separate.(Seraiwan starts first.) Setup back rank limit-We should get a option for selecting if we want crazyhouse to be limited to back ranks or keeping crazyhouse and setup separate.(Setup starts first.)

Do Comment if I am wrong. Queen - 7 Knight/Rooks - 5 Bishops - 3 Pawns - 1 I like knight more than rooks because it jump over walls. Sometimes the Queen is useless when all the files and diagonals are blocked (which is very rare). Some Strategies: Allow your opponent to capture your pieces. It will gain time for you. Bishops are the second weakest piece after pawns. Always try to exchange them. Blockade a passed with a king/bishop. Try to block files with the bishop. Try to stop a capture if it blocks your pawns. Also note that Petrified variant is drawn if 1 player moves only his pieces.

In Drawback Chess https://www.drawbackchess.com you win by capturing the enemy king by capturing, and moving through check is allowed. Castling through check, and out of check is also allowed but if you try to castle out of check or through check then your opponent can take your king en passant by moving to a square your king passed through or the square your king moved from. For instance in this game https://www.drawbackchess.com/game/4d1b07a82a8e8097bb981fc242ebca36/white my opponent tried to castle out of checkmate by castling queenside, so I placed my queen on the starting square of the enemy king in order to capture it. I think similarly on this site there should be a variant of capture the king, in which if your opponent tries to castle out of check or through check you can take their king en passant by landing on the square their king left from or a square their king passed through even if you aren’t attacking the square their king landed on. As a compliment to that I think there should be a variant for games that aren’t capture the king, in which it’s possible to castle through check or out of check so long as the square you land on is safe. For instance in this second variant, in this position White could get out of check by castling like this I also think there should be a variant, in which it’s possible to castle when there’s pieces between the king and rook, so long as those pieces are enemy pieces, with those pieces being captured. In this third variant if there was a position like this Black could castle queenside like this Which would capture the two white knights, and so it could be denoted something like O-O-Oxc8xd8

Hi, I am not sure who to report these bugs to, so I'll just put it here (I also sent a bug report but I am not sure where it goes): 1) Long castling jump: Consider a case where one can castle long, except that a piece occupies b1/b8. Then one should be able to cast the skip spell and castle, but it does not work. 2) Castling while the king/rook is frozen should not be possible by the freeze spell's rule. However, if only the rook is frozen, the king can still castle, and the frozen rook moves as if it wasn't frozen. Interestingly, I had both situations in games, but you can verify it in the analysis board too.

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hello, Lucas is here on this club i have been posting a lot of my variant ideas: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/great-and-greater-chess-probably-one-of-my-last-variants-ideas https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/rate-my-chess-variant-idea https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/rate-my-variant-idea-again https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chaos-chess-my-variant-idea and some more... but all of them have one thing in common: none of them are playable, the problem is that all of them use custom fairy pieces, meaning theres no way i can publish them on chess.com, the best solution is making pages on chessvariants.com with Interactive Diagrams, but theres two problems the first one is that making pages on chessvariants.com requires HTML, this problem is easy to fix, i already have the entire code for the intecrative diagramof one of my variants and theres some text to HTML converters out there so i can use them to make the rest of the page the second problem is something much less technical, i should probably talk with someone who uses chessvariants.com thesecond problem problem is: i think chessvariants.com is the worst place i can possibly post my variant on, almost or maybe even all chessvariants.com users show their real name, and most of them look like serious variant creators, actually, variant creators are called "Game Inventors" meaning creating variants is something very serious, and i only create variant ideas for fun, and when i was about to create a account for myself, i immediately stopped when i saw this: i made this post to show how i like my variant ideas and how i want to make them playable, but i dont know if you can create variants for fun, or any kind of chess variant creation is serious

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Well, last days I have been thinking much less about chess variants, I don’t know if I will keep showing my variants ideas, well there is: there are the pieces: Queen: unlike the Queen from standard chess, this one also can move and capture like a Zebra ((3,2) Leaper), well, if one day I make this variant playable then I will probably change the appearance, name and notation to something else, it also have a special ability: any enemy piece adjacent to it can’t capture anything, but if it captures a piece then it loses that ability, with the ability it’s worth 13 points, without the ability it’s worth 11 points, Notation: Q General: it’s the same as Chess.com variants, it’s the royal piece and it replaces the king, but it can’t do castling, Generals can’t face each other orthogonally (they can’t be on the same Rank/File without atleast one piece between them), just like Xiangqi, Value: ∞, Notation: K Crowned Bishop: Bishop + Wazir, value: 5, Notation: B Pawn: pawns on this variant combine Stone General and Berolina Pawn, they can always move 2 squares diagonally (move only), they capture En Passant the same way as Berolina Pawn, value: 1, Notation: P Mammoth: Camel + Zebra, value: 5, Notation: M Light Cannon: moves like a Rook but to capture it must jump over a piece, but unlike the Xiangqi Cannon, this one can jump over pieces without capturing, value: 4, Notation: L moves and captures the same way as the Janggi Cannon (a Rook that must jump over a piece to move or capture) but unlike the Janggi Cannon this one can jump over cannons and capture cannons, it also can jump over two pieces to capture, value: 4, notation: H Elephant: the same as Seirawan chess, value: 8 Lion: Ferz + Wazir + Alibaba, value: 5, notation: I other rules: pawn promotion: pawns promote to Lion, Light Cannon, Heavy Cannon, Elephant, Mammoth and Crowned Bishop the 14th Rank stalemate: Stalemated player loses

.The main feature of Mansindam is that all pieces are powerful and there are no draws. In addition to that, the game is very complicated because of the Drop rules and Promtion rules. However, the balance between white and black is almost equal If you want a game that is more complex than Chess and has stronger pieces than Shogi, I recommend Mansindam The rules are very intuitive and consistent, but complex because there are so many variables+++Rule page: https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/mansindam.Playable site: https://www.pychess.org/

So , Members of this club please tell me how should I make a variant like Lucas I am new in this club I don't know anything guide mew to make variants I want to make it PLEASE someone guide me 

Every time I try to place a piece in crazyhouse, a pop-up appears saying "Oops! The move you have made is not a legal move". I've read all the rules, and according to https://www.chess.com/terms/crazyhouse-chess, the only ones that should have any restrictions when placing are pawns. I have tried it both while in check (to block the check) and out of check, but every time the same pop-up occurs. 

Anyone intersted in hosting videos of variants or playing in those videos? (platform could be chess.com, youtube, twitch, etc.). It could be existing variant or new. If interested, react positively to the suitable post(s) below from the following: "I would like to host", "I would like to play (in hosted videos)". Since advertising is not allowed, don't post your channels/handles here. Instead, simply express your interest, and if many are interested, we can make a club for that (I hope posting invite link to the new variant-related club is okay in this case).

I already posted this in Beta but I want to see what you guys think about it something like this

How can I get my rating 2000+ in atomic, any tips...

What is the meaning of these stats?: 1670 60% Chaturanga (26) 1572 20% Blitz (29) 1557 20% Fairy Pieces (26)

Now I am (as a man who always wanted to become a serious part of history) working on the largest playable chess variant, on an extremely big board (I'm sure that you can't even imagine it, like me!), which will be much bigger (but still visible and playable, using special markup) than Taikyoku shogi. This game was known as the biggest playable chess variant for many years.Now, It's about time to say our own word! My game will be based on Western chess and I believe that we'll get something to be proud of! This game will contain special and full-described rules and all known playable fairy pieces (except wazirs, ferzes, dabbabas and other useless stuff like that). But even more, I'll create my own chess pieces for this game. And this game will be named after me.It will be a serious project, perhaps, the most difficult project in my chess life. Perhaps this project will be seriously ridiculous, and at the same time ridiculously serious. At least I'll try to do my best.Stay on!

I realized that it would be too hard to chess.com create the option of creating custom fairy chess pieces. so theres my suggestions of fairy pieces that i think chess.com should add, and i dont think this would be too hard to code Champion: this piece combines wazir and alibaba, this piece is from Omega Chess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Chess) Description on chess.com: "combines alibaba and wazir" Notation: Σ Wizard: this pieces combines ferz and camel, its allso from omega chess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Chess) description on chess.com: "combines camel and ferz" notation: Π Crowned Rook: combines Rook and ferz description on chess.com "combines rook and ferz" notation: μ Dragon Wazir: it combines wazir and xiangqi horse description on chess.com "combines wazir and xiangqi horse" notation: Γ Actress: it combines Queen and Wildbeest description on chess.com "combines queen and wildbeest" notation: Φ