Favorite variant

Occasionally, when I go to a chess club, I play variants of chess. I'm just curious: which is your favorite? Here are the ones I know of:

Chess 960; Chess 256; monster chess; special ability chess; plunder chess ; suicide chess; atomic chess; stealth chess; handicap chess.

Personally, I have no favorite.

If you don't know how to play any ask of these, feel free to ask me.

I only play standard chess. Don't see the reason to play any other variations

I forgot. I also know of bughouse.

Bughouse is absolutely great, but my favorite chess for two people is atomic - the tactics are really quite rich. I also enjoy progressive where White gets one move, Black gets two, White gets three, Black gets four, etc. and a check ends your series of turns.

Sometimes after the third or fourth round I think I'm playing missile command.

1. Blindfold

2. Bughouse

(Sortta) recently I participated in a bughouse tournamant at a chess club I go to (Winchester Chess Club). The highest rated player is teamed with the lowest,  the second-highest with the second-lowest, and so on. Our team tied in second with five other teamss. We got six out of ten possible points. We were in clear second until I played IM Vivek Rao, who destroyed me. It was extremely fun to play.

Magnet chess, where pieces automatically get sucked to the h-file whenever possible. 

Flick chess, when players must execute their moves by flicking the pieces. An illegal flick leads to a lost move.

I sometimes indulge in a game of Sniper Chess, where you capture pieces by shooting them in the head from a distance.

Reminds me of the Monty Python exploding shrubbery.

Looked on wikipedia: included like 50 variants I have never heard of.

I don't play much Chess, but I like to watch computer programs battle each other.

A very simple variant I like is Knightmate (Knights move as King, King moves as Knight and has to be mated). It is close enough to standard Chess to look familiar, yet different enough to give it a fresh feel.

I also like Gothic Chess, because of the violent tactics. After watching a tournament of Gothic Chess for a few hours, even standard Chess bullet games look a bit boring...

Once you get used to the way the pieces move (especially the fact that Horses do not jump over pieces, like Knights do), Chinese Chess (Xiangqi) is also a very exciting game. I have to watch it in western board representation, though, because representing chess pieces by draughts chips with Chinese inscriptions on it is of course awful!

When I was a member of NOST (Knights of the Square Table), I often played Chess Variants, my favorite being Triplets, the rules of which can be found at

http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/triplets.html

I like the game b/c it is easy to learn the rules, fun to play, and a long game will last only about 15 moves. 

If it doesn't have lasers and sharks, it's just a gimmick.

Antichess (aka losers or suicide), enjoy the forced moves you can calculate further... Anyway i don't know why chess.com won't include these variant, it shouldn't be too hard