How to play Bughouse Chess

So basically, the pieces get banned from their own existence, and end up in another universe.

Galaxy Brain variant: it's a 1v1 bughouse game. You must achieve checkmate on both boards to win -- preferably at the same time.

This is basically the Chess Multiverse lmao

Who is a chess nerd?

I played this back in my elemelementary school chess club, i did noy think it was a real thing!

Imagine checkmating both boards at the same time.

So 4 player shogi-chess

I Recommend do this on a similar or equal chess sets because, imagine a OCD players looking at you playing a nice wooden chess with you friend on a microscopic plastic board

When I played this 20 years ago, the win conditions were different: Instead of checkmate, you captured your opponent’s king, and moving into check (or voluntarily failing to get out of check) was legal. When you captured your opponent’s king, you gave it to your teammate to use as a spare. If a player had no kings, play on that board stopped until and unless that player got a king from a teammate. If your team had all four kings, you won.

Great explanation, thanks!

This is my favorite way to play chess yet I often use the normal way since most don't use this.

Whenever I was taught by my chess teacher the rules were different, mainly just that you couldn't drop a pice to put the opponent in checkmate or check and that you couldn't drop a piece in the opponents kast three rows.

i used to call this Australian Chess.

You can play this two-handed, but player 1 makes their white move before player 2 makes their black move & white move, then player 1 makes their black move, and the process repeats until the game ends.

I got the Chess board on the right for Christmas this year. How funny

My school had varient which we called boghouse of this where you had to put a peice on the place the would start in instead of anywhere and if a promoted pawn was captured it stayed as the promoted piece amout of queens on a board got crazy in the endgame

The waffle house has found it's new host

pawn tiny on big board

This is unnecessarily complicated. Seems like something a GM came up with after being bored and drunk out of their mind

I feel like allowing to put a piece on any free square is too OP

Does this mean i can have four knights?

househouse

Shoji 2

The drop rules are interesting; remind me of shogi

seeing a huge pawn larger than all the pieces on the board somehow made me laugh

Gulliver Chess: Same as Bughouse Chess but the big board pieces are 2x2 on the smaller board, and move in multiples of 2 as such.

We called this Swedish chess and played as quick-chess with clocks.

I have the small chess board.

Seems like crazyhouse but made to account for limited number of pieces and color

Tbh I feel the name bughouse is a lie, would be more fun if the small board had bugs as pieces.

I wonder if all 4 players taking turns playing would make the game more fair or less chaotic.

We called that one "four players blitz", since we played on a 5 minutes timer.
The only difference there is that you didn't have to call checks, and the game ended when you TOOK the opponent's king.

Can someone get out of check by dropping a piece?

When I played this, we didn't allow for a drop piece checkmate. It was massively fun, really.

Thank you.

I have those same chess sets

We call it "Supply"

Magnus Carlsen and Anna Cramling vs Hikaru Nakamura and Alexandra Botez who would win in bughouse chess?

hi, im back. I am officially an school double (two player bughouse) master, title given by other friends in school. The meta of this game is: the weaker player of the team stalls his game and exchange as many pieces as possible, while the other player destroys his opponent by dropping tons of pieces and lure the opponent king. The knight is best for attacking. The queen is best for fininshing your opponent for checkmate. The pawn is best for utilities such has setting anchor points in opponent's camp or defending via building a castle.

additional rules for advanced level bughouse(double chess):
1. You cannot place any piece in your opponents backrank
2. You cannot place a pawn in your backrank
3. You cannot place a piece to checkmate (you can check)
4. an obvious forced checkmate on board immediately ends the game.
5. You may not stall the game by not moving. If a 3+2 clock is used, This rule is removed.

Double doulbe crazyhouse game

Pretty sure there is no stalemate because of the possibility of dropping pieces, if you have no pieces to drop, you have to wait until your partner gives you one. Also, you are not considered checkmated if an interposition is possible, for the same reason.

so it's just chess x2