Variants & Leagues - Chess Forums

samueldeyoung07

Oct 24, 2022

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Why doesn't chess.com incorporate variants in the leagues? That would be fun!

Martin_Stahl

Oct 24, 2022

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#2

samueldeyoung07 wrote:

Why doesn't chess.com incorporate variants in the leagues? That would be fun!

Some were part of leagues for a while (those in live) but it was too easy to rapidly gain trophies over standard and 960 so they were removed.

samueldeyoung07

Oct 24, 2022

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Ok. That makes sense. I just thought that it would be kind of cool to get points when I won variant games.

Drawgood

Nov 1, 2022

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Because it takes time and money to incorporate them into the website but no incentive to. If anything, I think chess.com should first add existing traditional historic variants of chess before adding any experimental variants. I think things like xiangqi (Chinese chess), Makruk, and shogi are the biggest and very important alternatives to international chess for the reason that there is an established base of people already playing them and doing competitions. It means that for an average player there is at least some kind of incentive to spend time on a variant. They can actually sign up and compete somewhere.