What is the best chess variant ?

Gothic is the best in my opinion

A rectangular board may not exactly be pleasing to the eye. One small minus

A square is also a rectangle.

The game above shows Doug Dysart (USCF 1950) as black playing tough against game inventor Ed Trice. White gave up the Light Exchange early (chancellor for archbishop) then the medium exchange later (queen for chancellor) to be down the equivalent of the heavy exchange (queen for archbishop ). Yet the archbishop delivers the win. Proof that you can’t rely on piece weights alone to guide your play,

But some rectangles are not squares

So Why didn't black play Bxb2 around move 29 and later about move 31 Cxc4 when he had the chance?

Is variant chess a limited thing in India @astrologerdevanand

As for black's Bxb2 it would fall into a trap where white can sweep away all of the queenside pawn after Ng3 [reveals the Queen attack the B on b2) so Bd4 then Rb2 and the black pawns will fall like dominoes.

Another great attacking game

George Tsavdaris of Thessaloniki shared this game recently but it was from 2004 USA vs. Greece! Purple diagrams are side variations

bobby Fischer fan (joke)

I think Three-check is the best variant for training, but Atomic and Giveaway are also fun.