Every Chess Variant Explained

Eight chess variants you can open in a browser tonight, and every rule in this video was checked by an engine before it was spoken. A king that wins by walking into the middle of the board. Thirty-six pawns against a full army. A castling move that does not move the king. A game that has already been solved by a computer. And one where seventeen of Black's twenty legal first moves lose on the spot. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 King of the Hill — the king wins by walking into the centre 1:20 Three-check — fifteen points of material lose to one check 2:42 Horde — thirty-six pawns and eight legal moves 3:54 Racing Kings — the variant where giving check is illegal 5:14 Chess960 — the castling that moves the king zero squares 6:12 Crazyhouse — checkmate from a piece sitting in a pocket 7:16 Antichess — the variant a computer already solved 8:38 Atomic — seventeen of twenty first moves lose by force 📋 Sources Chess960: the rules, the 960 positions, Fischer's 1996 announcement and the 2008 FIDE appendix — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer... Antichess: compulsory capture, and Mark Watkins weakly solving it in October 2016 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_... Subscribe for more.