How much do you know Variants? - Chess Forums

talliholic

Mar 16, 2021

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#1

Now it's 20 questions. Winner gets 7 trophies

1. How do you get to the variants server?

2. What is the game where you can only see 1/2 of the board at the start?

3. What is the most popular variant?

4. What is the 2nd most popular variant?

5. What is @rune_raider's favorite variant?

6. How many types of variants are?

7. What is the most popular "other" section variant?

8. How many common variants are there?

9. What is the least played section of variants?

10. Who is the best KOTH player?

11. Who is the best FOW player? (blitz)

12. What is the highest bughouse rating?

13. Explain chaturanga with a 4+ line paragraph

14. What is the most recent variant? (16 March 2021)

15. What happens when you capture a dead piece in petrified?

16. Can you checkmate in FOW?

17. Can you combine torpedo and sideways pawns?

18. What is the oldest variant in the "Historic" section?

19. How can 1 side win a queen and king VS queen and king endgame in atomic? Explain in a 4+ line paragraph

20. In a 8+ line paragraph, explain Variants, what it is, the most popular variants, Custom, and a conclusion.

Again, Winner gets 7 trophies!!

GLHF! Start people.

Miniongolf

Mar 16, 2021

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#2

1. Hover mouse over play then click variants

2. FOW

3. 4PC

4. Bughouse

5. horde

6. half a bajillion

7. XXL

8. Nine

9. mixed

10. idk

11. idk

12. idk

13.

14. Racing Kings

15. nothing… ?

16. capture the king

17. yes (bells and whistles)

18. Chaturaji (or Chaturanga im not sure which one is older)

19. keep checking the opponent king by putting your queen right beside the opponent king, and force it towards the enemy queen. The opponent can't take your queen because it would explode their king. When the king is beside the queen, capture the queen and blow up the king. You can also push the king to the edge to mate them.

20. im too tired lol

talliholic

Mar 16, 2021

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#3

lloool

2_faan_36

Mar 16, 2021

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#4

lol

MaskedSuperPakara

Mar 16, 2021

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#5

5. horde

MaskedSuperPakara

Mar 16, 2021

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#6

HOW LONG DID U TAKE TO DO THIS

MaskedSuperPakara

Mar 16, 2021

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#7

HEY DAT IS RUNE_RAIDER

samuelysfung

Mar 16, 2021

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#8

7 . p e t r i f i e d

lol

Miniongolf

Mar 16, 2021

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#9

idk

Garbage_speedrun

Mar 16, 2021

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#10

Miniongolf wrote:

1. Hover mouse over play then click variants

... And only true PROs would type "chess.com/variants" in the address bar instead

Garbage_speedrun

Mar 16, 2021

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#11

19. Queen & king vs queen & king endgame, assuming there are no extra pieces or pawns - very boring, rare and drawn (in the most cases) endgame (if there are pawns on the board, it's a whole different story).
Two cases to consider:
1) both kings are connected, the endgame is drawn unless 1 side can explode enemy's queen (whilst also exploding enemy's king near to their queen). so 1 side wins only if another player blunders.
2) kings are not connected: if 1 side can't block enemy's queen checks from the safe distance (safe distance === king is at least one square away from the exlosion area), they lose (alternatively, weaker side could connect kings if kings are close enough). otherwise, 1 side can only win in the case the enemy blunders.

talliholic

Mar 16, 2021

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#12

rune_raider wrote:

1. Hover mouse over play then click variants

2. FOW

3. 4PC

4. Bughouse

5. horde

6. unlimited because you can customize variants with virtually endless possibilities, but if you're not counting custom mode then it would be 28.

7. XXL

8. 9

9. mixed

10. howitzer14 https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/kingofthehill

11. baobab123 - https://www.chess.com/variants/fog-of-war/archive&p=baobab123&daysBack=0-9999

12. 3049 - https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/bughouse

13. chaturanga is the same as chess except the following rule changes are applied: 1. the bishops are replaced with elephants (alfil) and can only move in alternating squares diagonally...2. the queens are replaced with a ferz which can only move 1 square diagonally...3. the pawns can only move one square and there is no en passant...4. the rooks look different (they are called chariots) and castling does not exist.

14. Racing Kings

15. the piece you capture gets removed, but the piece you capture with turns into a stone and cannot move for the rest of the game nor can anybody cross through it.

16. yes, but only by capturing the king

17. yes (bells and whistles, or custom)

18. according to wikipedia, it is chaturanga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturaji

19. there are two ways, depending on whether or not the kings are touching gay. if the kings are NOT touching gay, then all you need is a queen to force the king towards the edge and deliver the mate (for example, white queen on d7 and black king on d8). if the kings ARE touching gay, then it is a draw UNLESS both sides have 1+ pawn(s) that cannot move, in which case the stronger side's king can put the weaker side's king into zugzwang by using the pawns so that the weaker side's king has to spend a turn moving away from the stronger side's king.

20. variants is the word you use to describe any game that derives from chess, or that chess derives from. for example, chaturanga is a game that chess derives from, since it is older than chess, but horde is a game that derives from chess, since it is newer than chess. the best way to think about variants is as a variation of chess, hence the word "variants" ...the most popular variants are 4 player chess, bughouse, fog of war, automate, automatic, giveaway, and horde. all of these are different variations of chess. custom is a mode found in the variants server which allows you to sort of build your own variants (although unrated) or a mix of variants by borrowing some properties which other variants already use. for example, a variant which you could invent could be something like "recon" where it is fog of war + 1-check, with a chess960 board, or you could also make atomic960 by mixing atomic with a chess960 board although this already exists so you aren't exactly inventing it. in conclusion, playing variants is a good way to relax or test training hypotheses, if you already take regular chess very seriously/professionally.

"So close yet so far" as the 6th bowser's fury isle said.

1 question wrong but every question matters.

[UPDATE]

Actually 2 questions wrong by rechecking

talliholic

Mar 16, 2021

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#13

rune_raider wrote:

1. Hover mouse over play then click variants

2. FOW

3. 4PC

4. Bughouse

5. horde

6. unlimited because you can customize variants with virtually endless possibilities, but if you're not counting custom mode then it would be 28.

7. XXL

8. 9

9. mixed

10. on variants server it is apparently ClashRoyalski, but outside it is howitzer14 https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/kingofthehill

11. baobab123 - https://www.chess.com/variants/fog-of-war/archive&p=baobab123&daysBack=0-9999 ... other good players include vsaxena, a1t19, and rubik87

12. 3049 - https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/bughouse

13. chaturanga is the same as chess except the following rule changes are applied: 1. the bishops are replaced with elephants (alfil) and can only move in alternating squares diagonally...2. the queens are replaced with a ferz which can only move 1 square diagonally...3. the pawns can only move one square and there is no en passant...4. the rooks look different (they are called chariots) and castling does not exist.

14. Racing Kings

15. the piece you capture gets removed, but the piece you capture with turns into a stone and cannot move for the rest of the game nor can anybody cross through it or capture it.

16. yes, but only by capturing the king

17. yes (bells and whistles, or custom)

18. according to wikipedia, it is chaturanga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturaji

19. Queen & king vs queen & king endgame, assuming there are no extra pieces or pawns - very boring, rare and drawn (in the most cases) endgame (if there are pawns on the board, it's a whole different story).
Two cases to consider:
1) both kings are touching gay, the endgame is drawn unless 1 side can explode enemy's queen (whilst also exploding enemy's king near to their queen). so 1 side wins only if another player blunders.
2) kings are not touching gay: if 1 side can't block enemy's queen checks from the safe distance (safe distance === king is at least one square away from the exlosion area), they lose (alternatively, weaker side could connect kings if kings are close enough). otherwise, 1 side can only win in the case the enemy blunders.

20. variants is the word you use to describe any game that derives from chess, or that chess derives from. for example, chaturanga is a game that chess derives from, since it is older than chess, but horde is a game that derives from chess, since it is newer than chess. the best way to think about variants is as a variation of chess, hence the word "variants" ...the most popular variants are 4 player chess, bughouse, fog of war, automate, automatic, giveaway, and horde. all of these are different variations of chess. custom is a mode found in the variants server which allows you to sort of build your own variants (although unrated) or a mix of variants by borrowing some properties which other variants already use. for example, a variant which you could invent could be something like "recon" where it is fog of war + 1-check, with a chess960 board, or you could also make atomic960 by mixing atomic with a chess960 board although this already exists so you aren't exactly inventing it. in conclusion, playing variants is a good way to relax or test training hypotheses, if you already take regular chess very seriously/professionally.

the 2 questions that were wrong are still wrong XD

talliholic

Mar 17, 2021

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#14

rune_raider wrote:

1. Hover mouse over play then click variants

2. FOW

3. 4PC

4. Bughouse

5. horde

6. you can customize variants with virtually endless possibilities, but if you're not counting custom mode then it would be 28. if you count custom mode as a variant of its own then it would be 29.

7. petrified

8. 9

9. mixes

10. on variants server it is apparently ClashRoyalski, but outside it is howitzer14 https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/kingofthehill

11. baobab123 - https://www.chess.com/variants/fog-of-war/archive&p=baobab123&daysBack=0-9999 ... other good players include vsaxena, a1t19, and rubik87

12. 3049 - https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/bughouse

13. chaturanga is the same as chess except the following rule changes are applied: 1. the bishops are replaced with elephants (alfil) and can only move in alternating squares diagonally...2. the queens are replaced with a ferz which can only move 1 square diagonally...3. the pawns can only move one square and there is no en passant...4. the rooks look different (they are called chariots) and castling does not exist.

14. Racing Kings

15. you can't capture a "dead" piece in petrified because it has already turned into a stationary stone which you're not allowed to cross nor can you capture.

16. you must literally capture the king in order to win.

17. yes (bells and whistles, or custom)

18. according to wikipedia, it is chaturanga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturaji

19. Queen & king vs queen & king endgame, assuming there are no extra pieces or pawns - very boring, rare and drawn (in the most cases) endgame (if there are pawns on the board, it's a whole different story).
Two cases to consider:
1) both kings are touching gay, the endgame is drawn unless 1 side can explode enemy's queen (whilst also exploding enemy's king near to their queen). so 1 side wins only if another player blunders.
2) kings are not touching gay: if 1 side can't block enemy's queen checks from the safe distance (safe distance === king is at least one square away from the exlosion area), they lose (alternatively, weaker side could connect kings if kings are close enough). otherwise, 1 side can only win in the case the enemy blunders.

20. variants is the word you use to describe any game that derives from chess, or that chess derives from. for example, chaturanga is a game that chess derives from, since it is older than chess, but horde is a game that derives from chess, since it is newer than chess. the best way to think about variants is as a variation of chess, hence the word "variants" ...the most popular variants are 4 player chess, bughouse, fog of war, automate, atomic, giveaway, and horde. all of these are different variations of chess. custom is a mode found in the variants server which allows you to sort of build your own variants (although unrated) or a mix of variants by borrowing some properties which other variants already use. for example, a variant which you could invent could be something like "recon" where it is fog of war + 1-check, with a chess960 board, or you could also make atomic960 by mixing atomic with a chess960 board although this already exists so you aren't exactly inventing it. in conclusion, playing variants is a good way to relax or test training hypotheses, if you already take regular chess very seriously/professionally.

you corrected one but edited a good answer which now becomes wrong

talliholic

Mar 17, 2021

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#15

rune_raider wrote:

1. Hover mouse over play then click variants

2. FOW

3. 4PC

4. Bughouse

5. horde

6. you can customize variants with virtually endless possibilities, but if you're not counting custom mode then it would be 28. if you're counting custom mode as a variant of its own then it would be 29.

7. petrified

8. 9

9. mixes

10. howitzer14 https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/kingofthehill

11. baobab123 - https://www.chess.com/variants/fog-of-war/archive&p=baobab123&daysBack=0-9999

12. 3049 - https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/bughouse

13. chaturanga is the same as chess except the following rule changes are applied: 1. the bishops are replaced with elephants (alfil) and can only move in alternating squares diagonally...2. the queens are replaced with a ferz which can only move 1 square diagonally...3. the pawns can only move one square and there is no en passant...4. the rooks look different (they are called chariots) and castling does not exist.

14. Racing Kings

15. the piece you capture gets removed, but the piece you capture with turns into a stone and cannot move for the rest of the game nor can anybody cross through it.

16. yes, but only by capturing the king

17. yes (bells and whistles, or custom)

18. chaturaji

19. there are two ways, depending on whether or not the kings are touching gay. if the kings are NOT touching gay, then all you need is a queen to force the king towards the edge and deliver the mate (for example, white queen on d7 and black king on d8). if the kings ARE touching gay, then it is a draw UNLESS both sides have 1+ pawn(s) that cannot move, in which case the stronger side's king can put the weaker side's king into zugzwang by using the pawns so that the weaker side's king has to spend a turn moving away from the stronger side's king.

20. variants is the word you use to describe any game that derives from chess, or that chess derives from. for example, chaturanga is a game that chess derives from, since it is older than chess, but horde is a game that derives from chess, since it is newer than chess. the best way to think about variants is as a variation of chess, hence the word "variants" ...the most popular variants are 4 player chess, bughouse, fog of war, automate, automatic, giveaway, and horde. all of these are different variations of chess. custom is a mode found in the variants server which allows you to sort of build your own variants (although unrated) or a mix of variants by borrowing some properties which other variants already use. for example, a variant which you could invent could be something like "recon" where it is fog of war + 1-check, with a chess960 board, or you could also make atomic960 by mixing atomic with a chess960 board although this already exists so you aren't exactly inventing it. in conclusion, playing variants is a good way to relax or test training hypotheses, if you already take regular chess very seriously/professionally.

now u made the correct incorrect :/

talliholic

Mar 17, 2021

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#16

rune_raider wrote:

1. Hover mouse over play then click variants

2. FOW

3. 4PC

4. Bughouse

5. horde

6. you can customize variants with virtually endless possibilities, but if you're not counting custom mode then it would be 28. if you're counting custom mode as a variant of its own then it would be 29.

7. petrified

8. 9

9. mixes

10. howitzer14 https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/kingofthehill

11. baobab123 - https://www.chess.com/variants/fog-of-war/archive&p=baobab123&daysBack=0-9999

12. 3049 - https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/bughouse

13. chaturanga is the same as chess except the following rule changes are applied: 1. the bishops are replaced with elephants (alfil) and can only move in alternating squares diagonally...2. the queens are replaced with a ferz which can only move 1 square diagonally...3. the pawns can only move one square and there is no en passant...4. the rooks look different (they are called chariots) and castling does not exist.

14. Racing Kings

15. the piece you capture gets removed, but the piece you capture with turns into a stone and cannot move for the rest of the game nor can anybody cross through it.

16. yes, but only by capturing the king

17. yes (bells and whistles, or custom)

18. chaturanga

19. there are two ways, depending on whether or not the kings are touching gay. if the kings are NOT touching gay, then all you need is a queen to force the king towards the edge and deliver the mate (for example, white queen on d7 and black king on d8). if the kings ARE touching gay, then it is a draw UNLESS both sides have 1+ pawn(s) that cannot move, in which case the stronger side's king can put the weaker side's king into zugzwang by using the pawns so that the weaker side's king has to spend a turn moving away from the stronger side's king.

20. variants is the word you use to describe any game that derives from chess, or that chess derives from. for example, chaturanga is a game that chess derives from, since it is older than chess, but horde is a game that derives from chess, since it is newer than chess. the best way to think about variants is as a variation of chess, hence the word "variants" ...the most popular variants are 4 player chess, bughouse, fog of war, automate, automatic, giveaway, and horde. all of these are different variations of chess. custom is a mode found in the variants server which allows you to sort of build your own variants (although unrated) or a mix of variants by borrowing some properties which other variants already use. for example, a variant which you could invent could be something like "recon" where it is fog of war + 1-check, with a chess960 board, or you could also make atomic960 by mixing atomic with a chess960 board although this already exists so you aren't exactly inventing it. in conclusion, playing variants is a good way to relax or test training hypotheses, if you already take regular chess very seriously/professionally.

wanna give up? still wrong :/ lol

weihou0

Mar 18, 2021

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#17

@rune_raider wow your determined

talliholic

Mar 18, 2021

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#18

rune_raider wrote:

can you tell me exactly which numbers are wrong? if not, then can you give me a hint?

11 and 7

PeaPer27

Mar 18, 2021

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#19

1. chess.com/variants or Play>Variants

2. FOW (fog of war)

3. 4PC (4 player chess)

4. Bughouse

5. Horde as he/she joined a tournament of Horde.

6. 28, or more.

7. Racing Kings

8. 9

9. Mixes (i don't play it too)

10. @ClashRoyalski (closed)

11. @vsaxena

12. 3049

13. the counselor is the queen and only move one square at a time. Pawns can only move one square at a time. The chariot is like the rook, but can't castle with the king. The elephant is the bishop and moves two square diagonally at a time.
14. Racing Kings

15. The dead pieces (captured piece) is turned into stone so you can cross or capture it.

16. You need to capture the king to win, you can check, but if the king don't escape the check you win.

17. Custom as i know

18. Chaturanga from India

19. If the white queen blunders at the middle (not near the king) it'll be draw as only the two kings.
It would actually be a draw, but if the kings are close, one side wins.
It is really hard to win in this Atomic endgame because if you capture a pieces it will disappear.
If you can capture the king, it'll be harder, as this endgame is already hard.

20. Variants is an another custom position from chess, which has different rules. Like from 4BC the chess game, people start to have xiangqi, Japanese Chess or Korean. It has different boards too. Example Chess.com's 4PC, bughouse, or Horde. You can try mixing them from Bughouse+4PC, you'll need 2 partners because it has 4 players, also you can grab your partners' (or partners' partner) pieces. Chess has these variants not in the site too, for example: Fairy Chess, three player chess (which has a different board) and hexagon chess (suggesting this : D). If you always lose games on regular chess, you'd try another method to win it right? Well you'd try variants, a different board, piece, and rules. Chess.com variants can also have unrated, no points will be added or minus.

weihou0

Mar 19, 2021

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#20

rune_raider wrote:

aakula wrote:

Ok so like not spamming lists but are u copy pasting

i want a lawyer

Lmao