Questions tagged [chess-variants]

Question 1

Ultima sounds intriguing, but when I tried playing it I was completely at a loss as to what I was supposed to do. (In fact it seems so different from chess that I'm not even 100% sure that it should ...

Question 2

I've been thinking about hexagonal chess for a while, and I've been wondering how the minor pieces (bishop and knight) would move. The rook would obviously move like this: (dots represent legal moves ...

Question 3

I have recently created a chess.com account and discovered that you can submit your own chess variant to be tested and such. As I looked at the chess editing board for custom variants, I noticed that ...

Question 4

See closed question, possibly a "merger" can be done. Assume White and Black independently choose a different shuffling of their pieces (one of the allowed 960 positions, with castling ...

Question 5

Does anyone know what the circeled Eve on I7 means in pychess server ? It's white turn.

Question 6

I've been long pursuing for incorporating Amazon (QN),Cyril (RN) and Eve (BN) into endgames with 4 or 5 pieces and to compute optimal mating sequence. Finally I've succeeded with this simple string: ...

Question 7

I was thinking about knight tours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour I also wonder about knight tours for bigger boards such as 10x10 or 12x12. Maybe this belong more in a puzzle group or ...

Question 8

I currently make API calls to lichess for mate-in-2 puzzles and it works great. I'd like to do the same for the variant Alice Chess. Pychess.org has Alice chess puzzles, but I do not see anything ...

Question 9

I recently played some torpedo chess online, and it got me thinking. Let's invent a new pawn: multidirectional pawns, which are like normal pawns (can double move on their first move) except they can ...

Question 10

Curious if there's either a variant or obvious solution to a chess variant where losing any piece is considered a loss, how big is the game tree? I can't find anything about this other than loser ...

Question 11

I recently played some shatranj games. I find King+Rook can not beat King+2 Ferzs of the same color (with stalemate count as draw). Rook can also hardly beat 2 Ferzs of different color in 50 moves as ...

Question 12

Fischer Random Chess is gaining traction (e.g. the Freestyle Chess tournament series), and the last few seasons of TCEC (engine tournament), a Double FRC tournament has been included - i.e. Chess 960 ...

Question 13

Official official rules probably exist only for official occasions. Our local house rules are: a) pawns are used b) no insert with check. Rule question: Ka6 Rc8 - Ka8, Black has only knights to insert....

Question 14

How to evaluate positions like this in antichess? [FEN "rn2kb1r/p1p1pppp/8/8/8/4P2R/PPPq2P1/RNB1K1N1 w Qkq - 0 1"] The natural impulse in such positions is to play Rxh7. But how can I ...

Question 15

This is a question about the rules of atomic chess. I just mated my opponent in this variant, but the game didn't conclude at that conventional means of ending a game, and, instead continued to ...

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Questions tagged [chess-variants]

Is there established strategy for Ultima?

How should the minor pieces move in hexagonal chess?

How does FEN4 work?

Different 960 setups for Black and White

Fairy pieces on pychess

Mansindam:a chess variant without a help

Zebra tours on a 10x10 board?

get variant chess puzzles via API

Torpedo pawns vs multidirectional pawns

Is there a chess variant where losing any piece is a loss?

Can Rook beat Alfil+Ferz (either of same or different color) in shatranj?

What would be the most fair way to play a Double FRC 'Draft' Chess?

Bughouse rule question

Evaluating antichess positions

Atomic chess ending rules query

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