Chess Variants

Why I Love Chess Variants (and You Should Too)

A King from Shuuro stands above all others with the help of Rogue Chess.

I know two things to be true:

• First, Cards Against Humanity is a shit game.
• Second, you can never take chess variants too far.

I own an unhealthy number of chess variants. Some are add-ons that change the rules of traditional chess. Some are replacements with their own boards and pieces. Some are playable with one another. Some are too weird to integrate at all. And I love nothing more than mashing them up.

Some of these mashups are way broken, but balance isn’t really the point. The point is experimentation. Trial and error. Variation and selection. Like evolution. Without this constant evolution, I wouldn’t have experienced the pleasure of watching an opponent shit a brick when I played Onslaught to move 12 pawns forward. And you haven’t lived until you’ve seen 7 queens on the same board, all belonging to you.

Knightmare Chess/Tile Chess mashup rules are included in Tile Chess. We use Proteus dice as markers.