# Weird Chess

> Chess variants for the bold

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6759537454](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6759537454)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6759537454`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** James Beach
- **Category:** Board
- **Version:** 1.4.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-14
- **First published:** 2026-02-26
- **Size:** 21 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weird-chess/id6759537454)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://jamesmbeach.com/archives/5604](https://jamesmbeach.com/archives/5604)

## Description

Check out Weird Chess! Like using tapatillo instead of ketchup, but for chess.  Choose from 12+ variants across two board sizes — and more on the way. Each variant with its own rules, strategy, and personality.

8×8 Variants

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.

## Rankings

- #1,665,580 — Overall

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