Super-simple variant: Amazon Chess

Hi Chess Variant Community,

I tried making a super-simple custom variant which I call Amazon Chess.  It is simply a regular two-player 8x8 standard setup except replacing the queens with amazons (which have a combination of queen and knight moving abilities in a single piece).  I played a couple of games against the futer to make sure it works and it was super fun.  The futer wanted to bring out the amazons quickly and they have terrifying power so I opted to trade them off.  Thus, the games transferred back to standard chess rather quickly.  However, I think most people would probably keep them on the board longer so the games would probably be more interesting yet still be close enough to familiar chess for new folks to try the variant.  If anyone wants to give it a try, hit me up, or make it yourself and try it with another player.

Cheers to fun chess variants,

Dean

How to play chess variants

Hi Vedant,

On the desktop chess.com website application, the variants are available if you hover over "Play" in the upper left under the subheading "4 Player & Variants". The Variants are mostly unavailable on the mobile chess.com app (only Chess960 variants are available there).

Cheers,

Dean