If you Could Make a chess Variant what would it be like?

If you Could Make a chess Variant what would it be like?

Democratic Chess - No kings or queens. The pieces vote on moves. They have to take all the opponent's pieces

Anarchy chess (4 kings per side playing on four board with 2 pawns each as followers and 2 bishops and 2 knights)

I've come up with a couple of silly ones which have sort-of caught on in the local chess scene.

Snatch chess - you are allowed to remove your opponent's pieces from the board at any point during the game. Not the king, but anything else is fair game. For this to count, you have to lift the piece from the board, place it on the table off the board, and let go. It doesn't count if you drop or throw it. The catch is, if your opponent successfully grabs your hand in the act of removing one of his/her pieces, you lose the game on the spot.

Pirate chess - Any piece which is defended by one of it's own pieces inherits the properties of the defending piece. So for example, the standard opening move is a2xa7, as the a2 pawn is moving like the a1 rook. Or even if you have a pawn on a7, and move a knight to b8, you can promote the knight to a queen, as it inherits the promotion property of the pawn. The only exceptions are: 1) the king doesn't pass its king-like properties, so if the king is defending a pawn, you can't attack the pawn and call check, and 2) the king doesn't inherit properties (otherwise it's too hard to checkmate). This is totally insane but once you get used to it it's great.

I have enjoyed Alice chess, although the strategy is to complicated for me (played with one normal board and one board that starts empty, after you make a move with a piece on one board it switches to the other one).

Football chess. d1 and e1 is the goal that black must score in, and d8 and e8 is the goal that white must score in. The piece 'in possession' has to go in one of these squares. The black king starts 'in possession', and if the piece in possession is taken the capturing piece becomes the piece in possession. There is no check or checkmate. The white pieces start on the second and third ranks, and the black pieces start on the sixth and seventh. Pawns cannot move 2 squares on their first move.

How about strip chess, every time a piece or pawn is captured, the person whose piece it is has to remove an article of clothing. You couldn't play this in a public place since the players might get arrested. 

All of the rules are the same in the game accept every fifth move the powers of the bishops and knights exchange!

I've seen a similar game using a coin as the ball, and the pieces kicking the ball in the direction they normally move in, but I don't know the full rules.

4-d chess

That sounds a lot better than regular strip chess, where a player only strips if he/she loses a game. If I played your version of strip chess, I'd be trading pieces all the time.

As I recall, in the 1930's, a variant called One Check Chess (or First Check Chess) was popular, where the first to give check won, even if it could be stopped by  capture, blocking, or by moving out of check. I played it for awhile 20 years ago at a chess club, but later we discovered that white had an out and out bust that couldn't be stopped, forget what the sequence of moves was, I think it was with the Knight. Some big brain GrAnd MaxSt0r3 discovered it 80 years ago and after announcing it to the world the game disappeared.  

There's a watered-down version of that still played, where the king isn't allowed to move (it can capture and it can castle), but there is no 1-check rule. As far as I know there is no bust for this.

Atomically American Bughouse Three checks

Use a doubling cube so that we can get it over with.  This would only work with matches and would not double one's rating.

triple chess

The chess variant I would like to make is one in which I always win!

How about just put two board side by side.  You get two sets of men.  You can travel to either board.  But at the boarder, you can only move one square into the next board, then resume normal powers of the piece on the next move, so it would take a rook three moves to get from the far left side to the far right side. 

Move #1.  Rook moves from far left to edge of it's original board.

Move #2.  Rook moves one more square, from the Left board to the Right board.  

Move #3.  Same rook can continue all the way to the right board's right edge. 

Or you could have the same two boards side by side, but no hesitation going from one board to the other. 

Here's the rub, if EITHER of your kings is check-mated, games over.  

I would say "chess pawn mental trainer" All we need is a 2 square chessboard and a black pawn. All you have to do is sit there and wait until white moves. Imagination is a must!

Very Zen.

Somehow, I'd manage to lose.