Objectives and capture rules

A variant that keeps normal chess rules and adds an immediate win for delivering a third legal check to the opposing king.

A variant that keeps normal chess rules and lets a player win by legally moving their king onto one of the four central squares.

A pawnless variant with a special starting position where the goal is to race your king to the eighth rank without giving check.

A reversed-objective variant where captures are compulsory and you normally win by losing all your pieces or having no legal move.

A variant where every capture causes an explosion that removes the captured piece, the capturer, and nearby pieces under special rules.

A two-player variant where captured pieces change sides, enter a reserve, and can later be dropped back onto the board.