your favorite chess variant

I don't get how  bughouse works

Crazy house all the way

it's like 2 crazyhouse games going at once, only you give the pieces you take to your partner (who can then place one of them on the board rather than move, since they play as the opposite color):

pawns may not be dropped on the first or last rank, promoted queens revert back to pawns when captured, you only communicate with your partner in chat, one decisive result ends both games & you want to stay ahead of your partner's opponent on time in case you have to abruptly stop playing (about to lose), since then they can't just sit & flag you.   🙂

One thing this makes me curious about: Do promoted queens become pawns in Crazyhouse? I've been promoting to knights because I don't know whether or not the opponent will get a queen if I promote to one (in the situation where I'm usually taking a guarded piece).

My favorite variant is probably Atomic, if I can't count ones I made myself.

Shot chess 🥂🥳

liquor can kill you.

So can chocolate! I'm not about to give either up in moderation! 😂

you'd be healthier for it.

Horde is pretty fun. Bughouse and 4 player is also fun

i like behind the mirror and XXL chess

Chess960 no discussion. 

I bought an opening repertoire on chessable and realize that most of the work to improve at classical chess was brute force memorization. 

Now I play 960 mostly, the dynamic is different because you have to think on literally ALL your move especially at the beginning. The situation can be imbalance but that's even out with the matches and playing imbalance position is fun. 

I have trouble understanding why there is no more 960 going on, make more sense than classical chess. 

Horde, four player, and King of the hill.

Fog of war 

I love 960 because I am rubbish at memorising openings. Curiously, though, my daily 960 rating is about 100 points below my standard daily rating. 

shogi