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A friend of mine and I were playing several OTB games last night and we started playing games with alternative rules. All standard rules of piece movement applied. Here is a list of what we played:

Losing Chess: If you have a capture, you must take it. First one to force his/her opponent to take all his/her pieces wins.

Counting Chess: White starts by playing one move. Black responds with two consecutive moves. White then plays three consecutive moves. Black four, etc.

Instant middle-game: A divider is placed across the middle of the board. Both players set up pieces in random places. The divider is lifted. Hilarity ensues.

Games we have played in the past:

Knightmare Chess: A card game to be accompanied by a chess set. At the end of each turn a player has an option of playing a card which allows certain moves to be made. For instance, a card may allow the user to move a knight twice, or switch positions of knights and bishops, or allow a pawn to capture backwards. This game is a bit more random and is suggested to be played by people who can play to just have fun.

Four-player chess: Played on a cross-shaped board (a regular board with three rows attached to each side). Play like normal chess.

Knightmare Four-Player Chess: Combine the last two variations. If you are one to get mad easily, don't even bother.

So, what variations can you come up with?

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Originally posted by neonpeon41
A friend of mine and I were playing several OTB games last night and we started playing games with alternative rules. All standard rules of piece movement applied. Here is a list of what we played:

Losing Chess: If you have a capture, you must take it. First one to force his/her opponent to take all his/her pieces wins.

Counting Chess: White st ...[text shortened]... re one to get mad easily, don't even bother.

So, what variations can you come up with?

np
I've been playing a lot of Shuffle chess on my computer program, Fritz. The back rank pieces are arranged randomly, and Black's pieces mirror White's. The rules are the same. and castling can occur where it is legally possible. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes frustrating because all your opening knowledge is lost.

There's a ton of chess variants and at least two or three books on the subject that I'm aware of. Here's a Website devoted to the subject:

http://www.mattbengtson.com/Chess/variants.html

Good luck!

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>A couple of kids who were quite talented in chess got into this idea last week at the chess club, playing with different rules. They decided to play losing chess, in other words, whoever loses wins!
>So, cleverly, one said, "You can have the White pieces," which his opponent gladly accepted, figuring this would somehow give him an advantage.
>When White made his first move, Black replied with, "I resign," thereby winning!
>So much for that idea.

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn
>A couple of kids who were quite talented in chess got into this idea last week at the chess club, playing with different rules. They decided to play losing chess, in other words, whoever loses wins!
>So, cleverly, one said, "You can have the White pieces," which his opponent gladly accepted, figuring this would somehow give him an advantage.
>When W ...[text shortened]... de his first move, Black replied with, "I resign," thereby winning!
>So much for that idea.
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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
I've been playing a lot of Shuffle chess on my computer program, Fritz. The back rank pieces are arranged randomly, and Black's pieces mirror White's. The rules are the same. and castling can occur where it is legally possible. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes frustrating because all your opening knowledge is lost.

There's a ton of chess varia ...[text shortened]... devoted to the subject:

http://www.mattbengtson.com/Chess/variants.html

Good luck!
Shuffle chess is a lot of fun, about the only variant I have any use for. I've played several set-piece games here on RHP with a randomized backfield. I'd very much like to see Fischer Random Chess (Chess 960) implemented here -- shuffle chess with the number of positions permitted limited such that castling, by special rules, is always possible. Maybe it's on the To-Do List, after conditional moves, wet bars for clans, etc.

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Originally posted by luctruc
Shuffle chess is a lot of fun, about the only variant I have any use for. I've played several set-piece games here on RHP with a randomized backfield. I'd very much like to see Fischer Random Chess (Chess 960) implemented here -- shuffle chess with the number of positions permitted limited such that castling, by special rules, is always possible. Maybe it's on the To-Do List, after conditional moves, wet bars for clans, etc.
When RHP have Fischer 960 as a feature in its already rich repertoir, with a separate rating system - I will abandon ordinary chess, from then on only play Fischer 960.

Why? Because the tedious opening theory can be forgotten and the game starts with tactics and strategy from the very beginning. I hate when I am overrun by a nerdy youngster with a lot of theory in his little head, but not knowing why to play this or that...

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I haven't actually played it but Fischerandom seems a good alternative. It is implemented in another website I'm registered in (I don't know if outside competition is allowed here).

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