In Free-for-All Chess, teaming is NOT ALLOWED! That means you are not allowed to communicate, team up, or make alliances with any other players.

Four Player Chess boards may be hard to find because of their unusual shape. Still, it is worth the search, just to play simultaneous chess with more of your friends!

Horde Chess is the variant version of a zombie apocalypse, but with more strategy and fewer brain-eating undead.

This may be one of the most common chess variants among young players because it is easy, fun and quick to play! However, this chess variant is not very helpful if you want to improve your actual chess playing.

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.