Insane Types of Chess You can Play!

Have you heard of Monster chess, Give away chess, 3 Checks chess, Progressive chess or Pawn war? Here is a brief introduction to all those.

While teaching chess, it is important to keep the kids engaged with some fun stuff that indirectly helps them learn different aspects of chess.

For instance, Give-Away chess also knows as Suicide Chess, Killer Chess or Take-all Chess. Give-Away chess is a chess game where losing all the pieces is the objective.

Rules

1. The board setup is the same as a normal chess game.

2. If one player has a capture, then he should take it. If one has many captures then he can choose which piece to capture.

3. No check, no checkmate, King can be captured and Pawn can be promoted to any piece including King.

4. Castling is not allowed.

5. If the game ends in a stalemate then the player who has the least number of pieces wins.

Why is this important?

Give-Away chess is important because many times - though they have a good capture - kids will not realize that they have a capture. But in Give-Away chess one has to look for all kinds of captures possible! This way it helps them see what capture they have instantly in a normal chess game.

Some more types of Chess Game

Pawn Game

Here one side will have just pawns and King and the other side will have everything! This is good to teach checkmate to beginners. I take the pawn side and ask my students to checkmate me.

Kids feel good about themselves if they can checkmate you. In the meantime you can analyze how long they take to do that and where they are doing mistakes./

Rules:

1. All the general chess rules apply.

Pawn War

In Pawn War both the players will have all the pawns and respective Kings.

Rules:

1. All the general chess rules apply.

Queen and Pawns

Here one player will have King and a Queen while the other player will have all the pawns.

Rules:

1. All the general chess rules apply.

Monster Chess

This is a little strange kind of game. Here one side (monster) will have a King and 4 pawns (as shown in the diagram). The other side will have all the pieces and pawns. But the funny thing is that the monster gets two moves at a time.

Rules:

1. White has to make two moves either moving a piece twice or moving two different pieces.

2. All other general chess rules apply.

3 Checks

3 Checks is a very simple variant of chess. Here whoever gives three checks wins! This is important for kids because it tests their ability to carry out a simple task. You can also make your variation like ‘whoever captures the Knights wins’ etc.,

Rules:

1. Whoever manages to give a total of 3 checks first, wins.

2. All other general chess rules apply.

Progressive Chess

Progressive chess is the most insane variant of chess. Here the number of moves will increase after every move. Initially while will make one move. Black will make two consecutive moves. While now plays three consecutive moves and Black gets four moves at once and so on.

This is important for kids because it helps them try out combinations. They will eventually try to checkmate using different pieces. They feel good because they can bring all the pieces they want instantly without any defense from the opponent.

Rules:

1. the number of moves progress with the move number!

2. A check must be escaped on the first move of a series. If this cannot be done then it is a checkmate.

3. En-passant must be made on the first move of a series.

4. All other general chess rules apply.

So these are the variants of the chess game that I can recall playing. They help my students a lot in using different pieces, making a plan, thinking ahead, etc., It can be annoying initially but later on, you will have fun.