Talk:Chess/Variants

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I think 2 variants considering mention are the one where I believe the goal is first to lose the match as well as 3D.--Billymac00 19:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yea, various options using a standard board and pieces have wider appeal.
 * Variations I've played include. Start with piece down, or piece plus the move.
 * Play to lose. In this case lose means you have no pieces other then king left.
 * Doubles - great fun. When you win a piece give to your partner who can then as an alternative to a move put it on his/her board as long as it's not mate.
 * Start with normal position plus two rows of pawns each.
 * Play one extra move each time. I.e you play one move, your opponent plays two, you play three, your opponent plays four moves etc. don't last long that version!
 * Start win normal position, except pawns are going other direction. So if you are sat with white piece in front of you, you are actually playing black and can therefore play 1. Nc6 2 b8(Q) etc.

E5ricky 22:55, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Random Known-Opening Chess
I would have a chess variant in my mind, I would name it Random Known-Opening Chess:

A balanced selection of 1024 equal openings from the ECO (Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings) is randomly chosen, avoiding specific opening preparation, and saving opening theory.

The main problem is how to find such equal openings. However Martin Thoresen (author of the website TCEC closed in July 2011) has used a database of about 800 drawn GM games as such equal openings (considering its first 10 moves and roughly testing the equality by computer programs) to let play strong computer programs in tournaments between themselves.

It could be named also "Chess1024" on the analogy of "Chess960" for the Fischer Random Chess (a very liked chess variant too, although it doesn't save opening theory), and also to distinguish "Random Known-Opening Chess" from "Random Opening Chess", a completely different chess variant.

Another name could be "Random KO Chess" since KO is the acronym for both Known-Opening and Knockout, in fact this variant could be useful also as blitz game tiebreak, to not waste time in recalling variations. --PCMorphy72 (discuss • contribs) 06:53, 23 July 2011 (UTC)