New Crazy Worlds

 


We can create a classification of crazy chess as a family of games. Or as a tree of variants. I will list the canonical games. All of them were created before the relatively wide popularity of Crazyhouse.


Bughouse – most popular variant that has a history of open tournaments. Bug is generally an ideal conceptual variant. This is conceptualism. Higher  league is the same as the top world chess players or virtuosos of art.

Many world chess players are fans of Bug - Susan Polgar, Levon Aronian,Yasser Seirawan, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, John Nunn. In 2018 for the first time in his life Garry Kasparov played Bughouse.

Thanks to the development of the Internet in the early 2000s a whole generation of strong players emerged Bughouse-online FICS. A couple of years ago there was an interesting discussion Reddit. It should also be noted that in such discussions, players from completely different generations are compared. Some of them are legends OTB. Others are the strongest players FICS.

We will try to understand the story Bughouse in another chapter. In the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s there was a sufficient amount of resources Bug. 

 

Nowadays site Neph Diaz has a very rare collection of newspaper publications, photographs and videos OTB Bughouse in USA. Neph Diaz multiple champion of open tournaments. On his website you can also find links to one of the oldest video recordings of live tournaments Bug. 

 

 

Neph Diaz together with Kazim Gulamali (VABORIS), who was considered the best Bug player in the world in 2000, they were experts on Bughouse for uschess.org. A small number of games played by Kazim Gulamali  posted in 2011 for iChess.net

 

In 2016 the Bug was implemented on chess.com but so far it is not as stable in the technical part as in FICS. 


 

 

Several factors at once, including the First World Championships Crazyhouse-2016 served as an impetus to the development of stream-channels Crazyhouse&Bughouse - JannLeeCrazyhouse, Nikolas Theiss, Thomas Crosky, helmsknight

 

Now chess.com is the largest popular platform of the Bug of our time. It becomes a good taste.

However, for fans there is also bughousetest something like a double clone from the very lichess for implementation Bug.

A lot of GMs also often take part in the game - there are different opinions about the mutual influence and the difference between Bug and regular chess.

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Crazyhouse 960 - second canonical extension. He appears right away together with Fischer's chess as a conceptual continuation.

It could be played on the Internet after 2017 on hellochess and chessvariants.training

Many people express the idea that the future of crazy chess is behind this option. In the spring of 2018 JannLee started playing Crazyhouse960

Also for the first time in history was played JannLee & TwelveTeen versus TheWorld

It should be noted this incredible game where the two best players of the world were confronted by the collective brain of more than 12 experienced crazy players ...

TwelveTeen known for FICS cheesybread is a member of the elite of masters and is the main competitor for the title of world champion Crazyhouse.

Hostage Chess - you can play in the software from the site of chess hostages. In this game, there are all the elements of zh and a set of complications with the failure of the exchange.

 

Around this variant was a definite discussion, until for a while the philosopher John Leslie continued to publish his games.

 

I must say that John Leslie has a parable about a man who remained unscathed after the execution. He was shot by fifty soldiers. I do not know whether it is possible to perceive it in the context of crazy chess. But it looks tempting.

 

Dark Crazy House– variant appeared no later than 2004 for www.schemingmind.com it can be played in correspondence.

 

«This is just about as outrageous a game as you can get whilst still being considered a chess variant. As far as we are aware it is unique to SchemingMind.com (Surely there isn't anyone else out there mad enough to try it!)

 

Your opponent's pieces are invisible (see Dark1) and start in normal chess positions. However, the playing rules are those of CrazyHouse (see CrazyHouse) so they can be dropped invisibly back on the board whilst you're least expecting it!

 

For those who really like to be kept in the dark about what your opponent is up to, this game's for you.»

 

This site also invented such crazy options as Dark Crazy House 2 and Crazy Elephant with elements of Shatranj.

Four Way Crazyhouse – the variant was invented on the website of Kung-fu Chess in the 2000s. He used elements of chess kung fu - the current for each part of the delay. As I know, he was never played in his original crazy version.

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CrazyWar –  variant from the game program Zillions-Of-Games

About this game posted a report in 2005 - «is normal Crazyhouse with extra pieces»

 

In Zillions, you can set up a network game - I must say that CrazyWar can be the next level of difficulty for crazy players.

Crazy No Retreat Morphy Chess – another variant from the shell of Zillions-Of-Games.

Invented in 2006. 

 

 

Fullhouse - the original version of the game is available at http://www.chessvariants.com/invention/full-house and also as Unachess (Full House Chess II)

 

Under the same name was invented by opperwezen in 2017 for hellochess with other ideas. After each move, your pieces bifurcated like in Japanese horror films. It was possible to create a fake king.

 

 

In chessvariants.com you can also find the idea of CrazyhouseKriegspiel ("CrazyKrieg") posted in 2003.

Fisher Random Bughouse –  this option existed on the Internet at some point. This idea originated right after the invention of Fischer's chess and she has frequent discussions. 

We also should not forget about the existence of WinBoard / Xboard with their huge capabilities. Of course, there are thousands of ideas for the development of crazy chess. In any variant, an element is added zh. There are ideas of chess variants, even with the possibility of self-devouring, the destruction of their own parts for further use in the attack. 

Sometimes it's kung fu, sometimes a vision, tactical or strategic elements, power solutions. These worlds can change your perception, your psychology, you can expand your consciousness and go your own way in reality

And appreciate my old joke – exist crazyhouse.com