Weird Chess

Mind Fu

About this game

Check out Weird Chess! Choose from 12+ variants across two board sizes — and more on the way. Each variant with its own rules, strategy, and personality.

Standard Chess — classic rules, plus an attacking pigeon that randomly moves your or your opponent's pieces.
Atomic Chess — where pieces trying to capture each other create mutually assured destruction.
Chess960 — 960 different randomised starting positions for all pieces.
3-Check — one checkmate not enough? With this variant, you need 3 checks to win.
King of the Hill — race your king to the centre and declare yourself lord of all you see.
Horde Chess — face the barbarian horde - or be it! 36 white pawns vs a standard black army
Fog of War — you can only see the squares your pieces attack.

10×10 Variants

Grand Chess — the pomp and circumstance of war, with a Marshal and a Cardinal in the royal courtly mix.
Omega Chess — go to war with an additional champion and a wizard. One does not simply walk!
Decimal Chess — a falcon and a hunter make your game a little stranger.
Hyderabad Chess — one of the earliest historic forms of actual ancient chess.
Jetan Chess — a form of chess created for the science fantasy classic Chessman of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Every move is narrated by an AI commentator with a unique personality — from the composed Classical analyst to the chaos-loving Random Pigeon.

Find your way and shake up your chess habits with some different kinds of play.

What’s new

New and fresh version, ready to get Weird Chess with you.