Best Chess Variants

Capablanca is great because he was only one champ who with GM (engineer) Maroczy had realized the inevitability of reforms in order to prevent the death of the classical chess!

But still there are another ways to play the current luxury chess set.These were chess 960 and FE chess.The difficulties stage of FE chess could be enhanced to maximum three pieces swap mode.For now the two pieces swap mode is sufficient.

New chess variant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQyjs1XhRT0

This is interesting: when we start to play it all on chess.com?
The time delay is a measure of FIDE officials' stupidity.

17.12.2016

Dont know if its already postedbut-

Arabian chess- When a minor or major piece(all pieces except king and queen)moves to file that they do not start on their move restrictions change to the piece that does start on the file i.e-

1.on the A and H files all minor and major pieces will be treated as rooks

2.on the B and G files all minor and major pieces will be treated as knights

3.on the C and F files all minor and major pieces will be treated as bishops

4.on the D file all minor and major pieces will be treated as queens

5.on the E file all pieces will have the same move restrictions as they have in standard chess.

                      Very fun mode in which you really have to think to get tactics to work and to checkmate the opponent. Improves tactical thinking and calculation.

The chessboard Carrera introduces the Centaur and the Champion on a 8x8 board with a hypermodern aproach. 
There are in total 8 special squares (blue) structured on the move of the Knight.
King and Queen pass from these squares as if they are classic and the same goes for the Knight's and pawns.
Only the Rooks and the Bishops know how to use the blue squares and they may move as a Knight on them.
In this way we have images on the board of the (Bishop+Knight combine) and the (Rook+Knight combine) and we also maintain the balance of the game.
The chessboard Carrera offers a more complicated game on tactical and strategical level, while all chess rules and all pieces remain the same as in the classical chess.

 

Brilliant! I like this chess board and your concept very much. But perhaps it is unbalanced? The blue squares are not arranged symmetrically and I guess white could have an advantage with the blue square c4 (xf7) with two white-field Bishops.

Perhaps it would be better if the position of black's king and queen are switched to classical chess.

I still have the feeling that the game is not balanced. Are you really sure that white does not have an additional advantage? For example, the bishop c1 can move in three moves to c4 and is then on a white square and threatens the weak square f7. Black does not have the same possibility on his side. That's why I think it would be better if the position of black's king and queen are switched to classical chess. Then the game would be balanced by a symmetry of the blue squares for the King and Queen.

Breaking the symmetry of the pieces is worst...we change all the opening theory and the castling symmetry as well... in this way bishop c1 can attack c7 weakness in 2 moves also. It is an intresting idea after all and you can try it with your friends if you want, but the original version is already tested and works well!

Give shogi a shot if you ever get the chance. Drops will always keep me coming back to it. Complexities aside, they really hype things up in my opinion.

Imagine yourself setting across the board from your opponent, who's busy calculating tens of different lines like you - and then you make a drop. That drop. Five or ten moves later, the game's over, and all you can say to him is, 'gotcha.' To me, that's what makes every checkmate in shogi so satisfying.

Chess 2 the sequel is really fun but I dislike the stone bidding aspect. Midline invasion is nice because it gives the king something to do other than sit around hoping he doesnt get killed. Also, over the years my friends and family developed a variant that we polished and balanced over the years. Mainly it involves using different variant pieces that suit your style of play and your opponent might be using a completely different set of pieces which lead to interesting strategic and tactical match ups.

I feel the same about Chess 2.  I actually made recently a chess variant that's called Super X Chess and I might be biased, but here's pretty cool gameplay trailer of it. It's chess where you can merge your pieces and they inherit their properties, but can't unmerge to make decisions count and have enough drawbacks for game balance purposes. The trailer includes few cool things from traditional chess too to also get exited from chess in general. Traditional chess is a subset of the legal moves in Super X Chess, so you could play it so that you wouldn't know the difference.

more info:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/814990/Super_X_Chess/

So your chess game is that your dropping pieces into the position before the game starts? I think that it looks a bit intimidating at least at first. Is there easy way to get into it that's easy for the learner of your game. Maybe some video clip, have you tried to make a video of it?

Nice! I like the concept and I will definitely buy this on my next pay day. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I am impressed that you made this. Was it difficult to do? I would like to bring to life my own chess variants. 

What did he mean by this?

Don't forget that Reaper vs. Classic is a forced win for Reaper no matter the colour.

One game that hasn't been mentioned is Knightmare Chess. As a card game it is inherently imbalanced, but it's fantastic for bridging the chess and card game worlds together. So many people I know who play YGO, Magic, and others, but would not dare touch a chessboard, have loved playing this.

Just hope that when they shuffle the deck, they aren't the ones who end up with Warlord...

Yes, unfortunately video games are very hard to do. But nowadays there are tools which make it easier and the biggest tool of them all is the Internet and all the resources here. But just like in chess, you just can't be good at it without some practice and knowledge. Usually you need to build that skill over many years, but you can become quite good in shorter time too. The problem is that making games is really multidisciplinary and highly competitive field. So all the success stories about games made by one person are big anomalies and they are even bigger anomalies each year we go forward as you need to compete against games made by teams of highly specialized and skilled programmers, artists, designers, etc etc.. It's a challenge that feels a bit like your just an ant and your trying to build great ant colony structure on your own. So you need to do small scope games if your doing them on your own. Chess games are quite simple and small scope games to make, so it was not impossible.

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To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

Since we've got our friendly neighbourhood Steve posting again... here's a few wee bits of Final Wars trivia that you may or may not know:

• The original Final Wars - which I'm calling Version Zero - was played on a 9x9 board and included the Pawns in the queues you see on the side of the board. It also had an extra piece, a non-royal King (probably known to you as the Guard). Version Zero is the origin of the game queue.
• Any piece + a King forces mate on a bare King in Final Wars; this is because the win condition in Final Wars is actually capturing the King, not checkmating it as we would know in FIDE chess today.
• The idea of creating an opening position while the game is being played, and the idea of the game actually starting once both players are fully deployed, is novel, but it's not the first chess game to do this. That would be Burmese chess, where the pawns are placed in a pre-defined structure, and you have to develop your pieces behind the pawns before the game truly begins.
• The first ever Final Wars set - for Version Zero - was a modified Dubrovnik set. This is interesting to note, because the Dubrovnik men were a particular favourite of Bobby Fischer. Likewise, Final Wars has been subtitled as 'Fischer's Revenge.' (because it's like Fischerrandom, but better)

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