Chaff / Christopher
(writer, creator of incomprehensible sword chess game)


Patreon / Bluesky
Lichess / ch*ss.com



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Anyone know of examples of recorded "immortal" or great games of chess played in variant formats? I welcome any variant. What I'm looking for could be:

  • Brilliancies or master-like play utilizing variant pieces/rules
  • Recorded games (notation or even just video content) that showcase the central features of a particular variant in especially illuminating or exciting ways
  • Recorded games where new techniques arise that were not written directly into the variant rules, similar to a windmill, poisoned pawn, staircase, etc.

...something like that.

I posted this question to the chess.com forums, but I am not expecting much. The variants forum category there seems like kind of a hellscape, as does the whole forum—or the whole website as a corporate entity cough cough. Anyway, the search terms available to this subject have given me no results when searching around. Maybe I should remember that libraries exist.


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