Chess Variant

How many chess variants do you know ?

Gliński's hexagonal chess...

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I actually played that game last weekend. It's a tricky variant to get the hang of. For example, bishop and pawn movement doesn't translate the same, so they don't have the same relationships.

looks like power of bishop has been reduced. Probably power of knight as well.

Interesting, I love the three bishops... The algebraic notation takes some getting used to -- I'd like a board with the f-file labelled 1-11 too... it would help.

Question about bishop movement -- In the initial position, can White's dark square bishop (dark, medium, and light) on f2 move to d4, or do the pawns block the bishop? I'm strongly inclined to think they do not block the bishop, (why should they, they aren't on dark squares)...  Do pawns promote at any back edge? 

The more I look at this variant, the cooler it seems!

Woot, I want an opening named after me! 1.g5  -- immediately threatening to win the k7 pawn (Bxk7 supported by the Queen) -- but it's an empty threat because if 2.Bxk7? i6 and the bishop is trapped and lost.

The Jg27pyth patzerpawnsnatcher opening

 Yes, Bd4 is a legal first move for white. And note that after Bd4, that bishop is attacking f8 and g10 behind black's pawn line.

chess 960, Losers chess, Atomic Chess, Crazyhouse, Gliński's hexagonal chess, Prime minister chess (check my topic Did you hear?, to see more about that) and thats about it