Aliya Explains Chess Variants: KINGHOUSE

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.

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BY ALIYA SALDANHA-SURI
NYC LAB MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES
COACH AND COLUMNIST

Chess variant, Kinghouse, is the second of fifteen variants in our special article series focusing on other chess playing games. Chess variants are one of the most enjoyable parts of chess. 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.

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KINGhouse

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. However, if you have a lot of friends and you want all of them to participate together in one game, kinghouse might be the right variant for you to play! This variant is played with three chess boards, and teammates will sit next to each other on individual boards facing the other team, exactly like in bughouse. The middle player will be the opposite color of the two side players, who will both be the same color.

Rules: All of the rules for kinghouse are exactly the same as the rules for bughouse (see previous article posting), except since there are more boards, capturing is a bit different. All pieces captured by the two side players go to the middle player. If a piece is captured by the middle player, that player can choose who to give the piece to.