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hah, what a fun variant. Some of the most fun I've ever had playing chess has been "bughouse" (aka tandem chess). It's basically 2v2 chess with the trick being,
by kbyatnal 4y ago
hah, what a fun variant. Some of the most fun I've ever had playing chess has been "bughouse" (aka tandem chess). It's basically 2v2 chess with the trick being, you and your partner play opposite colors. Whenever you capture a piece, you hand it to your partner, and they can drop it anywhere they like on their board.
- Invictus0 4y agoYou can play this on lichess.org with the crazyhouse variant set.
- Buttons840 4y agoIndeed, you can watch a live game right now, no account needed: https://lichess.org/tv/crazyhouse https://lichess.org/tv/crazyhouse
- icelancer 4y agoOnly 1v1 on there at the moment; Bughouse (2v2) is limited to chess.com (and their implementation is extremely buggy) unfortunately.
- bmacho 4y agogoogle en passant .. it's not that extremely buggy. Once in a while you can't move or something, but then a page refresh solves it. Less than in 1 game out of 1000 games or so. (I just estimated according to the number of my games and memories.)
- icelancer 4y agoI'm referring to starting games - I've had no end of trouble getting 2v2 working properly there.
- stevage 4y agoDoes freechess.org still work? It's had bughouse for decades.
- sharken 4y agoAh yes, playing it in the library at school was good fun, in Denmark it was mostly called Babyskak. It was also an excellent way of introducing chess in a fun way, much like Duck Chess. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess
- erehweb 4y agoYou might also look at Japanese chess (Shogi) - when you capture a piece, you take it off the board and then can drop it back on the board as your piece as a future move. The pieces are not colored, so you tell who has which piece by their orientation.