What is the best existing variant?

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Meredite

 

My favorite variants of chess are:

stare
disturb
cross legs

 

Chess me

https://www.chess.com/blog/Meredite/chess-me

 

Komstratyx-Spiele

Final results:

1. Trice´s Chess 39

2. Atomic Chess 30

3. Bulldog Chess 24

4. 4-Player Chess 10

5. Antichess, Chu Shogi, Janus Chess 8

8. Automate Chess and Stargate 7

10. Bughouse, 3 Check and Crazyhouse 6

13. Superchess, Bollwerk 178 and Musketeer Chess 5

16. KOTH 4

17. Horde, Shogi, Werewolf and Seirawan Chess 3

21. Trice´s Bughouse, Kriegsspiel, Chess960, Dice Chess, Schach 80, Siedeways Pawn, Shogun and Infinite Chess 1

ruikasa_real

nice.

raphaeleliekakou
Komstratyx-Spiele wrote:

Final results:

1. Trice´s Chess 39

2. Atomic Chess 30

3. Bulldog Chess 24

4. 4-Player Chess 10

5. Antichess, Chu Shogi, Janus Chess 8

8. Automate Chess and Stargate 7

10. Bughouse, 3 Check and Crazyhouse 6

13. Superchess, Bollwerk 178 and Musketeer Chess 5

16. KOTH 4

17. Horde, Shogi, Werewolf and Seirawan Chess 3

21. Trice´s Bughouse, Kriegsspiel, Chess960, Dice Chess, Schach 80, Siedeways Pawn, Shogun and Infinite Chess 1

Hello

I'm a cousin of Zied.

 

My vote will be as follows:

 

1. musketeer chess

2. titans chess, same as musketeer chess adding possibility to use bishop and knight as additional pieces

3. bughouse

ruikasa_real

.? .-.

ArchbishopCheckmate

There's no more voting in this poll. It is done.

musketeerchess2017

stone cold said, that’s not the bottom line.

rychessmaster1
musketeerchess2017 wrote:
Komstratyx-Spiele wrote:

Standings:

1, Trice´s Chess 15 points

2. Bulldog Chess 13 points

3. Atomic Chess 12 points

4. Antichess 8 points

5. 4 Player Chess 5 points

6. Janus Chess, Stargate, KOTH and Automate Chess 4 points

10. Bughouse, Horde and Crazyhouse 3 points

13. 3 Check 2 points

 

 

1. Musketeer Chess

2. Seirawan Chess

3. Shogun

No bias here

laurengoodkindchess

I enjoy bughouse and sac city!  I also like horde chess too!  

ericyancovid

xxl chess

musketeerchess2017
laurengoodkindchess wrote:

I enjoy bughouse and sac city!  I also like horde chess too!  

Hi, what is sac city and xxl chess?

MataMachar

1.Crazyhouse

2.Bughouse

3.XXL Chess

4.Horde

5.Automat/ 4 Player Chess

ruikasa_real

xxl chess is a variant u play on a large chess board. Like, a rly large chess board.

ericyancovid

bullwork 178

 

ericyancovid

taiyoku shogi

infinite chess

orda

synochess

ramanvis1988

I always love diverse number of pieces in the board, different designs of the board and playing with different fairy pieces during each game.
I have played different types of chess variants in www.jocly.com from June 2017 to October 2018 with different players until on Wednesday, 24 October 2018 www.jocly.com got shut down due to confiscation of game server by attackers.

Based upon my own experience, top 3 chess variants that I had ever played according to me are:
(1) Metamachy
(2) Grand chess
(3) Wildebeest chess

I can also provide my top 10 preferences according to my own tastes that are not still implemented at www.chess.com as of still:
(1) Metamachy (2) Grand chess (3) Wildebeest chess (4) Shako (5) Musketeer chess
(6) Glinski chess (7) Balanced Marseillais (8) Kriegspiel (9) Extinction chess (10) Shogi

Note that BabYagun told to me that Balanced Marseillais will take lot of developer resources and time to implement it with different engine, different PGN format, different UI, etc.

Yes that the voting is now closed but I do not know about the voting during the time at which it took place. May be I will stay tuned and participate in the next voting, with these same top 3 chess variants as preferences according to my own tastes being carried over, over thereby.

My top 3 chess variants as preferences according to my own tastes are those which no one have voted for, because no one would have been familiar with or tried out such chess variants, so that it would have no effect on the overall score for the previous poll,
but my voted chess variants can be carried over to the next voting of poll that would ever happen over hereby for the next time.

ramanvis1988

See also www.pychess.org and www.musketeerchess.net, each of them containing different classes of chess variants from each other and from https://jocly.jcfrog.com/joclymatch/gamespanel.php.
Unlike www.chess.com and www.lichess.org, chess variants over thereby are less popular and human players will occasionally come to play for a rated game. Most of the time anyone ends up trying out unrated games with AI, although AI there is quite strong especially level 8 and there are 8 levels of AI difficulty to play with any chess variant over thereby (unlike www.jocly.com demonstration page at https://mi-g.github.io/jocly/examples/browser/control.html?game=metamachy-chess which has only weak AI of single difficulty level to try out with for all of two player strategy board games available over thereby).
At www.musketeerchess.net, players can read the rules of each of type of chess variants that are available over thereby or play with AI online over thereby but not try out two player online games over thereby.

saintbenidict1
Chaturaji
ramanvis1988

So by my count, the current standings are:
1. Trice's Chess 39
2. Atomic Chess 30
3. Bulldog Chess 24
4. Bughouse 23
5. Crazyhouse 16
6. 4 Player Chess and Musketeer Chess 10
8. Antichess, Chu Shogi, Bullwerk 178 and Janus Chess 8
12. Automate Chess and Stargate 7
14. 3 Check and XXL Chess 6
16. Superchess, Metamachy, Horde and Chaturaji 5
20. King Of The Hill 4
21. Shogi, Werewolf, Titan's Chess, Shogun, Sac City and Grand Chess 3
27. Trice's Bughouse, Kriegspiel, Chess 960, Dice Chess, Schach 80, Sideways Pawn, Wildebeest Chess, Infinite Chess, Taiyoku Shogi and Shako 1

 

Sharkboy2021
960 FOR NOW