chess960 OR suicide chess
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Which is your favourite chess variant?
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Jul 12, 2009
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#23
I prefer standard chess -- it's plenty interesting & challenging enough for me.
I have been known to play the occasional game of bughouse, though.
Jul 12, 2009
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#24
Skwerly wrote:
Actually, Progressive Chess is probably my absolute favorite, but very few folks know how to play it. I'm going to write a Web article on it and when it publishes I'll link all you good people to it!
Any other progressive fans? :)
I'm a pretty big progressive fan as well. It's probably my favorite true variant, though I probably prefer good ol' standard.
My favorite variant by far is Alice Chess. Alice chess is played on two boards, and after each move (which must be legal on the board it begins on), the piece is transfered to the corresponding square on the opposite board. A piece may only capture another piece that is on the board the move begins on, so no piece can move to a square that is occupied on the opposite board.
transefer chess
Suicide and atomic
either siamese (bughouse) or suicide.
CRShelton wrote:
My favorite variant by far is Alice Chess.
I love Alice chess, I think it's a classic game, I play it as much as possible!
I'm also a fan of progressive chess, as well as atomic, crazyhouse, suicide and many others. Hey I wonder if anyone has ever tried atomic crazyhouse Alice chess? It would make a pretty wild game!!
Chronotis wrote:
Any purists here? Forget about variants. Chess is great as is.
Agreed...but chess is like anything else in life. Used to be just rock and roll. Now there so may variants its rediculous. I think we as people spend so much time trying to pigeon hole things in life. And we wonder why we never get along.
Conquiscador wrote:
Ghost Chess is the same thing as Kriegspiel
Actually there is another variant called Ghost chess, totally different from krigespiel. Ghosts of captured pieces reappear as soon as the square they were captured on is vacated and cannot be recaptured, hence they become invulnerable! It's a pretty old variant but hardly anyone seems to have heard of it.
bughouse rules 
Bughouse is awesome! Or maybe endless bughouse, where the king is just another piece and can be traded off instead of checkmate.
monster chess
Hi guys,
I used to play a variant called 'Transactional Chess'. It is much like Chess960 except both sides back ranks are mixed (differently then each other). For castling, on a players first move only, they were allowed to swap the king with any other piece on their backrank. I still consider this varient better than Chess960.
Watch your backrank.
what's the one called that is like crazyhouse with teams?
Is that bughouse? I get those ones confused.
Ghost Chess is the same thing as Kriegspiel