Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Variants

Some chess variants which are available on FICS:

  • Chess - it is usually played with different time controls : Standard (15 minutes or more), Blitz (3 minutes or more but less than 15), and Lightning (less than three minutes).
  • Suicide - capturing is compulsory, a player wins by losing all his pieces; the king has no special significance
  • Loser's chess - like suicide, but with additional rules pertaining to the king and check
  • Atomic - pieces "explode" when captured, removing all adjacent pieces except pawns
  • Wild - several variants similar to regular chess, including Fischer random
  • Bughouse - fast paced, four player game, in which two teams of two players face each other on two boards
  • Crazyhouse - two player version of bughouse

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