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Welcome to Her News Variants!
Her News selects these chess variant games
to Inform and inspire our community.
Get ready, get set, go! The aim of Racing Kings is to get your king to the 8th rank before your opponent does.
Three Check Chess is a chess variant in which you will have to keep your king even safer than in regular chess!
Most chess players know that in chess, you should keep your king safe and try not to have it stuck in the middle of the board, but this chess variant is exciting because one of the goals of the game is to get your king to the center!
Got only 2 players? Crazyhouse is a chess variant that is similar to bughouse when you don’t have a team. This variant is more frequently played online given some of the technical challenges.
Got 6 players? Kinghouse is a chess variant that is very similar to bughouse. This variant is not at all a well-known variant, and there is not much information online about it, simply for the reason that it is more complicated to set up than bughouse.
Whether you’re goofing off with your friends, playing by yourself on a computer, or even competing in a chess variant tournament, chess variants offer many different ways to have fun playing chess and improve in different aspects of the game.