best chess variant is shogi
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shotgun king followed closely by FFA 4PC
Two of those look like Musketeer Chess and the other is unmistakenly Gothic or Trice's Chess. Those Musketeer games look complex and well played. How did they make the notation? Was it a special font of some kind? Who played those games?
Gorgon_Slayer wrote:
Two of those look like Musketeer Chess and the other is unmistakenly Gothic or Trice's Chess. Those Musketeer games look complex and well played. How did they make the notation? Was it a special font of some kind? Who played those games?
Those Musketeer games where posted in the "other variants" section on our Discord server. The first was Wojtek (white) vs GothicChessInventor (black) from the old Jocly server. The second game was Ed Trice (white) vs. Doug Dysart (black) from the Trice's Chess Discord server where they play other variants sometimes also.
You guys should try echochess.com
Life.
War for the throne, followed by Chaturaji
So many good chess variants. There is one which the best for you, whoever you are. And if you like standard chess only and hate the rest, well, consider that chess was also a variant when it emerged around 1475. Read this:
https://www.amazon.com/More-Chess-Than-family-variants/dp/1447765605
https://www.lulu.com/shop/jean-louis-cazaux-and-harm-geert-muller-and-paul-rapoport/more-chess-more-than-chess/paperback/product-6gyw7w.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4
https://www.amazon.com/World-Chess-Development-Variations-Civilizations/dp/0786494271
diffchess wrote:
So many good chess variants. There is one which the best for you, whoever you are. And if you like standard chess only and hate the rest, well, consider that chess was also a variant when it emerged around 1475. Read this:
Any material by Rick Knowlton is very good and thorough.
But Jean-louiscazaux is bizzarre and just plain weird in my opinion.
Edward Lasker has some good out of print books.
H.G. Muller is probably the most knowledgeable of the entire group.
Makruk sir.
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It is the best chess variant.
My favourite one is bughouse doubles. Variants of chess tend to be less studied with no clear meta and some (Like fischer random) even discourage metas and force players to come up with their own moves.
For this reason, I see variants as a break from standard chess that are just meant to be stupid, wacky and fun. Doubles bughouse fits this description because you can go crazy placing pieces everywhere and success is not entirely based on your skill as you are tied to another player, it also encourages aggressive gambit lines as you can use pieces your teammate captured to keep the pressure on.