Probably, the thought of watching, 'chess-boxing' mixed age competitions; Between those players, lucky enough to be in their 'forties'; Vs. their 'sixties' decade, elders. ..{weak joke; if manifesting.. Too much, 'time-to-kill'!}.
Favorite Chess Variants
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Gothic Chess, Spartan Chess, Team-Mate Chess, Elven Chess and Werewolf Chess.
I haven't played Looking-glass Chess for forty years, but for a while regular chess seemed dull by comparison.
Kriegspiel is fun, for the spectators as well.
Spartan Chess is awesome because it succesfully pits two different armies against eachother with roughly equal odds.
I have a soft spot for XiangQi (leaving aside losers chess, bughouse and atomic chess, it's the first proper chess variant I learned to play) and Makruk. Capablanca/Gothic Chess is ok, but to me it's not all that different from other variants that add more super pieces on a larger board. I have a fascination for Tamerlane Chess, but so far I've never played it (I normally just make computers play these variants) and suspect that the game is actually quite dull in practice...
I find the mentioned variants to be a bit too gimmicky: Fischer is just the same game with shuffled pieces and obnoxious castling rules, 3-Check and King-of-the-Hill have somewhat arbitrary extra rules that to my taste don't add much to the game and Crazyhouse lacks the fun part of Bughouse (playing with a partner) and is inconvenient to play over the board.
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Apr 13, 2016
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I like Millennium 3D Chess. :) If you wanna know what that is, check out my blog here on chess.com.
Hello everybody! I'd like to introduce a developing game called "The towers fall" which is inspired by the game of chess and which research players to test it and if necessary to help balance it. I hope it will interest you!
https://www.facebook.com/LaChuteDesTours
Interesting. But I see no rule description there (and it is all in French...).
Scottish or Progressive Chess, Giveway chess, Knight Relay Chess, Co-Regal chess. Years ago I was chess variations and non-chess game tournament director for the NOST (kNights of the Square Table). Would enjoy hearing from others as I'm creating a website devote to chess variant games and chess problems
I am looking forward to see your website. Note that I hve developed an 'Interactive Diagram' web applet that is ideal for showing rules of Chess variants with unorthodox pieces, and can be very easily configured for almost any variant. (E.g. http://www.chessvariants.com/invention/elven-chess ) You would be welcome to use it on your website.
In the future I might even expand it to become an actual computer opponent, rather than just a passive Chess board.
In your travels have you come across either Philip M. Cohen or Ralph Betza?
Unfortunately not. Ralph Betza already seemed to have retired from the Chess-variants community when I made my re-entry into Chess programming in 2007, after a 25 year pause. I don't know what has become of him.
Mr. Cohen's name I had never even heard before. I looked him up in Wikipedia, and he seems to be a quite productive inventor of Chess variants.
Jun 25, 2016
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I do not play chess variants. I only watch people play chess variants.
Jun 25, 2016
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Diplochess, a cross between chess and Diplomacy, looks interesting. Never played it, though.
Bughouse. It is totally awesome! One of my favorite activities in Bughouse is to go on the "Queen Hunt". I drop pieces to hunt the queen (only if my partner is super-good at chess and gives me a million pieces)
King Of The Hill and Crazyhouse.
May 23, 2017
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I adore watching people play 3-check and crazyhouse, but personally never had that much fun actually playing them. I love king of the hill and 960 though. 
What is your favorite chess variant?
Live 960, 3 Check, King Of The Hill, Crazyhouse, or Other?