Prime Chess

1. e4 e6 . ... Qf6 (something missing ? No, read on below)

Prime numbers are one of the most elegant set of numbers. Here is the list of first of them:
2-3-5-7-11-13-17-19-23-29-31-37 etc ... these are numbers that are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. In this variant I took these numbers and "plug" them as move numbers. Prime numbers changes the order pieces traditionally move. Every time moves get to prime number, BLACK moves first and WHITE follow ... this is my contribution to make the game of chess more equal.
Here is the list of the first moves, prime moves in red:

1. White Black
2. Black White
3. Black White
4. White Black
5. Black White
6. White Black
7. Black White
8. White Black
9. White Black
10.White Black
11. Black White

Every5 Chess

4th Row and 6th Column are frozen

If you like unexpected in chess you will like this variant ... what you see above is the situation after the 5th move ... every time black player plays 5th, 10th, 15th etc. move, one row and one column is frozen ... it stays frozen only through th 6th, 16th, 26th and so on moves ... and it means no move OUT , WITHIN and INTO this tandem is possible ... long range pieces cannot attack through frozen rows and colums and Kings are immune from attacks when inside frozen rows and columns ... Knights can jump over and pawns cannot move 2 fields from their starting position if it would require jump through frozen row. And it also means if white King was checked before frozen process began, white looses the game in case the only defence would be possible within affected row or coulmn (the same applies to black King) ... also, if either of the sites cannot move at all, game is lost ... it's easy for the software to manage this situations. When playing head to head, use two suits of cards from Ace to 8 and draw one card from each suit ... assign red suit for rows and black for columns ... enjoy.

Back to Back Chess

Another crazy variant ... all the rules remain unchanged. What is funny is the board and placement of pieces. White play downward (south) and continue at the top of the board ... Black play also downward (from its perspective of course) and continue at the top of the board (again, from its perpective) ... rows 4 and 5 DO NOT touch each other even if you see otherwise, lol

Revolt Chess

1. White has only noble pieces, without pawns ...

2. Black has no Rooks, no Bishops, no Knights (they were beheaded) , only Mr. Robespierre and his Wife Chessina ... Mr. Robespierre moves like a king and Chessina like a queen ... emtpy fields in the 8th row are populated by common soldiers (pawns) and 7th row is like in traditional chess.

3. As you can imagine, revolutionary war is going to start soon ... royal forces (white) against revolutionary crowd, lead by Mr. Robespierre and Chessina ...

4. Pawns at the 8th and 7th row can move two squares initially ... en passant is available for both rows.

5. Goal is like in chess ... check mate the opponents king (Louis XVI for white or Mr. Robespierre for black pieces) ...

6. Black commoners can promote to another commoners (pawns) or lady Chessina, and they can be put anywhere on the board ...

7. Mr. Robespierre cannot castle ...

Grunwald Chess

600 years ago, in 1410, there was one of the biggest battle in Europe called Battle of Grunwald. Predominant role was played by knights and I decided to commemorate this big event by creating a new chess variant called Grunwald Chess ...
The rules are exactly the same as in traditional chess, with the exceptions:
1. Knights can move also as pawns (including double move from starting position)
2. Knights can promote as in traditional chess only when they reach 8th or 1st row as a pawn ...
3. En passant is possible as long as knight moves two fields from its starting position as a pawn ...
4. Knights are entitled to move two fields as pawns as many times as they wish after reaching the 2nd and 7th row on their sites ...
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Hope you like the idea ... no special equipment is necessary, playing at home, use pawns as knights.

Battle of Grunwald

Hi, this is my new blog entirely devoted to my chess variants. Enjoy being here
and I welcome you to participate and express your opinions ... all the variants
are my own creations and in the most part were not tested ... they are a product
of pure imaginations and impulses that arise in me from time to time ... I do not like complicated rules and do not want to compete with well established chess variants.
I create them for fun, some of them can be used only with a help of computer software, and some can be played with standard chess equipment ... their purpose is to bring joy
and relaxed atmosphere ... try them at your leisure and let me know what you think ...
There are chances that these variants have some logical erros I wasn't of aware while creating them ... please notify me when you find them ... here I would like to thank Filip Rachunek (Fencer)for creating the best site to play chess variants, along with tons of other games ... I am especialy thankful for implementing my 3 chess variants at brainking ...