That… was about as ridiculous as expected. I’m impressed that someone actually made a functional game out of such an insane idea.
In other news, I just stumbled across this… uh… free flash game of questionable quality. Basically the developer made up about a hundred new pieces, sort of like making a magic deck, you pick which ones to play. Sadly it does not have a lot of active players, despite being obviously superior to normal everyday chess.
I play correspondence chess schemingmind.com, which has a wealth of variants and a great (mid-sized) community. After a free trial period, it does eventually require a (reasonable) annual membership.
Sorry, I can honestly say that that is probably my worst variant of them all.
I was a HUGE fan of Kriegspiel (Kriegspiel (chess) - Wikipedia) back in the day, and I enjoy 3-check a bit. There are a number of other variants I find fun. But I have always been awful at giveaway.
Antichess, suicide, loser’s chess are also some of my least liked and lowest skilled variants. This is the first variant I learned as kid. And I was “good”. But now that I play good players, I routinely struggle.
My favorites are LaoTzu and Racing Kings. I also enjoy Kriegspiel.
I’m currently in first place in the 2021 Variants Tournament there with 1.5 rounds to play. I have never won before, but usually finish in the top 5 or so.
I used to play on SchemingMind, and was going to reference it in this thread and offer to play some variants. Except, whoops, I don’t know my username any longer and I’ve definitely never paid since they went not-free, so it’s kind of not going to do anything for me. I wouldn’t get enough value out of it to make it worth the subscription price. I barely get enough use out of my free chess(dot)com account as is.
I just created a general tournament for everyone to join. I know there was some demand for a no-vacation “just for fun” tournament and I said I’d create one for the middle of this season of the more ‘official’ GoA tournament.
It will be large groups, so up to 11 games at a time depending on how many people join. No rating requirements or separation. 3 days per move. No vacation. Just for fun!
I’m so bad at doing anything fast. I’ve been doing a ton of the puzzles this week and realize that once I hit like 30sec I tend to panic and make a move that wasn’t thought out. But then you get those gainz when you solve 'em fast