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| Oct-11-08 | | ThePawnOTron2: The best of all is obviously ThePawnOTron2 Chess, where captured pieces can be placed on the board by the player whose piece was captured? --ThePawnOTron2 |
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| Jan-02-09 | | WhiteRook48: what an opening!! |
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Jan-15-09
 | | GrahamClayton: Edward Winter mentions in "Kings, Commoners and Knaves" (Russell Enterprises, 1999) that there were several games in the 19th century where one player would remove their Queen, but would receive extra pawns as compensation. There are multiple games with one player receiving 8 extra pawns, plus 1 game where the player received 9 pawns - General Guingret v L Kieseritzky. White had extra pawns on c4, d4, e4, f4, g4, b3, c3, f3 and g3. |
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| Jan-15-09 | | TheaN: Knight mate:
http://www.chessvariants.org/diffob... RULES:
Same as orthodox with these changes:
1) On b1 and g1 there will be a White King and on b8 and g8 there will be a Black King as regular Kings without the King's characteristics. They cannot castle, may be attacked, the attack does not have to be negated and they may be captured as normal pieces. 2) On e1 there will be a White Knight and on e8 there will be a Black Knight as regular Knights with the characteristics of a King, although they move as Knights. They may castle where orthodox rules apply, an attack on them must be negated and they may not be captured. 3) Pawns cannot be promoted into Knights and may promote into Kings. 4) As in orthodox chess, an attacked Knight is in checkmate when the attack cannot be negated and the checkmated players loses, and if a player cannot move when he is not in check will result in stalemate with a draw. This variant can be immensely complex as one, the King's value cannot be easily disputed, two, Knights are easily checkmated and three, in the beginning it might be completely counterintuitive to move with Kings and let the Knight stay put. I enjoy this one from time to time. |
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| Jan-15-09 | | kellmano: Reading this page has given me a hunger to play some chess variants. The only one I have really played at all is chess960 |
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| Jan-29-09 | | patzer of patzers: Does anyone have/know where I could easily access opening theory on pawn and move (also possibly pawn and two) games? I recently played a game giving pawn and move, and responded to 1.e4 with 1...e5??? It was only by luck that my opponent didn't see the devastating 2.Qh5+... |
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Jan-29-09
 | | Phony Benoni: <patzer of patzers> Well, if you're not talking about <recent> therey: http://books.google.com/books?id=LC... |
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| Jan-29-09 | | patzer of patzers: Thanks, <PhonyBenoni>, once again you provide another solution to my trivial chess needs! Unfortunately, I don't have much time to look at that document, but I will, perhaps, consult a little bit of it each day. I do already know that 1...c5 (as played by Philidor) is a blunder, dropping a second pawn, so I won't need to study that... |
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| Feb-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: think I'll play Knightmate or pawnstorm |
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| Feb-19-09 | | WhiteRook48: patrol chess is a bit risky for me, though |
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| Feb-26-09 | | WhiteRook48: I'd want to play Four-way-chess |
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| Feb-28-09 | | WhiteRook48: too bad only premium members can do the upcoming Fischer-random |
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| Oct-28-09 | | randomsac: There is only one variant game in this database that NN has won. It was one of the Fisherrandom games played on the internet. |
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| Dec-26-12 | | Bengambit: OK found it it's called Chess variants (000) thanks again .......... |
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| Sep-30-13 | | framsey: Does the following variant have a name?
Standard chess, except that in the event of a draw the win is awarded to the player with more material on the board (traditional point system: 1/3/5/9), plus 0.5 points to black. |
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| Dec-03-20 | | Messiah: <TheaN: Knight mate:
http://www.chessvariants.org/diffob...
RULES:
Same as orthodox with these changes:
1) On b1 and g1 there will be a White King and on b8 and g8 there will be a Black King as regular Kings without the King's characteristics. They cannot castle, may be attacked, the attack does not have to be negated and they may be captured as normal pieces. 2) On e1 there will be a White Knight and on e8 there will be a Black Knight as regular Knights with the characteristics of a King, although they move as Knights. They may castle where orthodox rules apply, an attack on them must be negated and they may not be captured. 3) Pawns cannot be promoted into Knights and may promote into Kings. 4) As in orthodox chess, an attacked Knight is in checkmate when the attack cannot be negated and the checkmated players loses, and if a player cannot move when he is not in check will result in stalemate with a draw. This variant can be immensely complex as one, the King's value cannot be easily disputed, two, Knights are easily checkmated and three, in the beginning it might be completely counterintuitive to move with Kings and let the Knight stay put. I enjoy this one from time to time.>
This variant seems to be insanely complicated for our orthodox brains, I already love it after simply reading this description. |
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| Apr-07-21 | | Tadeusz Nida: LUBEK CASTLE 2000/0000 IS NO VARIANT BUT IMPROVEMENT IN CHESS:
https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.ph... |
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| Apr-07-21 | | Tadeusz Nida: Yo.... TO THOSE WHO SAY LUBEK'S CASTLE 2000 IS A JOKE, THINK TWICE, encyclopediasupreme.org/0000 /Rocky mywikibiz.com/0000 /2356, SCREW U, HERE'S WHY: 2000 SUPPORTS GAME IN MANY WAYS, KING'S SAFETY IS THE KEY AND AS YOU KNOW WHAT STEINITZ POINTED ON THE ENDGAME, BECAUSE OF THE CLOSER CASTLING OF THE KING, THE QUEENSIDE PAWN STRUCTURE IS WEAKER BUT WITH LUBEK CASTLE 2000, THAT IS NO LONGER THE CASE, DUH!@! |
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| Apr-07-21 | | Tadeusz Nida: <Yo, THE GREATEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO CHESS IS LUBEK CASTLE 2000!!!> |
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| Jul-26-23 | | ColdSong: Imo one has to think seriously to dissymetric Chess 960 (black has not the same position as white).It must necessary be very interesting. |
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| Jul-26-23 | | ColdSong: One can call it Chess one million.Or something. |
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Jul-26-23
 | | beatgiant: <ColdSong> Or how about "Pre-Chess": The starting position has only the pawns in their starting positions. White begins by placing a White piece on the 1st rank. Black replies by placing a Black piece on the 8th rank. The players continue taking turns placing their pieces until all are placed, the only restriction being each player needs to place a normal "bishop pair" with bishops on different colors. After that, they play a normal game of chess, with castling allowed only if the king started on e1/e8 and a rook started on a corner square. I've always liked this a lot better than Chess 960. Reasons: (a) Avoids the very non-chesslike introduction of randomness and the need for a random number generator. (b) Introduces a whole new phase of the game with interesting possible strategies. (c) Counters White's first mover advantage in the play phase with Black's second mover advantage in the setup phase (i.e. Black has a slight advantage in foreknowledge of White's setup). Of course, this also allows for a lot more starting positions than either 960 or your proposed 960 x 960 and almost guarantees asymmetry. But alas, it's never caught on. I'm not sure why. |
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| Jul-26-23 | | ColdSong: Yes of course.Why not.It's absolutely different.What please me in Chess 960x960 is searching for the best move in really weird positions,while immediately contemplating their own unwished aesthetic.,I'd be surprised really if this idea was not promising. |
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Jul-27-23
 | | nizmo11: <beatgiant> An interesting variant.\
If White starts with ♔e1, does Black has a better strategy than eventually do ♔e8 to preserve the possibility for castling. And if White now continues with ♖a1 and ♖h1? |
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Jul-27-23
| | beatgiant: <nizmo11> I'm guessing it's not a good strategy for White to start with the most committal move possible, namely placing the king. Black could reply by taking aim with the heavy pieces on the central files. And castling isn't nearly so crucial in this variant, because the king can be placed near the corner in the placement phase. But the truth is, nobody yet knows what's the right way to play this variant. Starting from scratch with no known opening theory is part of the package. |
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