New Variant Idea

It's a very simple one, here's the differences from normal chess:

1. There is no royal piece, the king is now just like any of the other pieces. The ways to win no longer involve checkmating the king.

2. There's no more castling. (There's no royal piece to protect, so it would be kind of pointless to leave this move in the game.)

3. Stalemating the opponent is a win. (It would be pretty lame if they just had 2 pawns left and then stalemated themselves for a draw.)

4. Players with one remaining piece are forfeit. (Otherwise, you could have a situation where a player is up a queen to a bishop and its would just be a draw.)

Name Ideas:

1. Democratic Chess (There's no royal piece.)

2. Antiantichess (While the goal of antichess is to get rid of all your pieces, the goal of this variant is to get rid of all your opponents pieces.)

Comment any changes you think should be made and/or which name idea you want, or a name idea of your own if you thought of one.

You know you can play this already, right? 

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom (use your own rules)

https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess (royal piece settings)

oh i didnt

What are you talking about 

I don't think there is an option for this game rule

Which specific rule? In 4pc if you set Capture the King or Capture Everything as a rule then there are no checkmates. You can set royal pieces and castling. The only one I'm not sure of is if you can set the one piece rule; (I think in 4pc interface they call that draw by insufficient material.)

can you also set up stalemating your opponent is a win in 4pc?

Capture the King or Capture Everything rules would force your opponent to move into check so you can take the opposing piece.

So yes.

no im talking about pawns getting stuck on each other

If it is just two pawns left... I'm not sure. I'll test rn and post the results.

Here is a game I just tested in (2 moves; just watch it). Yellow gets stalemated. The reward for being stalemated is 20 points but then you are knocked out. I was unable to find a setting for stalemate is a loss.

https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9434822 

ye they should make that available so ppl can play this

This sounds good, but how would you win? Eliminate every opponent piece?

those and your opponent resigning are the ways to win

or timing out

So you cannot win by capturing all the pieces?

while capturing all the pieces is kind of the gist of it, the actual goal is to get them down to 1 piece, so the short answer is no you can't because you would win before you could

ok I see