does chess.com make members variants playable on site if popular ?

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Mirr0rEdge

                   Hi !        the title says all.

i have many ideas to reinvent Chess & make it more fun.   

would chess.com site edit & make playable a member chess variant idea or not ?

vickalan

Chess.com has a few playable variants (here) but I'm not sure how they were chosen. Most of the variants there seem to be rule changes ("capture anything" is where you can capture your own pieces).

If you make your own variant I think it would need immense widespread appeal before they even think about doing any new programming or editing to make it playable.

ArchbishopCheckmate

Bobby Fischer was set to play a variant right before he died with Anatoly Karpov.

https://nypost.com/2006/10/29/bobby-tolya-maybe-game-for-gothic/

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/homepage/20080119_Fischer_started_reign_with_a_win_in_Phila_.html

 

The player Nuclear Lightning on here invented the game and raised $15 million for their prize fund.

ArchbishopCheckmate

He also played GM Susan Polgar over the board

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=prVYwsBpHb8

Mirr0rEdge

thanks much for the infos ArchBishopCheckmate ! i checked up yours links i never heard of that before.  yeah Fischer WAs the man happy.png (before Carlsen & kasparov era i mean )

 

ArchbishopCheckmate

https://GothicChess.info has more

ArchbishopCheckmate

HSCCCB

I believe that the hope of the persons in charge of variants is that people will be able to create their own variants, and perhaps make them playable with others. You could ask @spacebar, or in the chess.com variants club forum