Check out Symmetric Chess, our featured variant for March, 2024.

This page is written by the game's inventor, Yu Ren Dong.

Nuthouse

Nuthouse is a two-players variant of Bughouse. On ench board, ench player's initial army(non-pawn, nonKing) are only one kind.

Setup

Rules

Nuthouse is a two-players variant of  Bughouse.

Normal Bughouse Chess with the following exceptions: 

1. On the first board, the first player only have one White King and eight White Pawns. The second player only has two Black Knights and eight Black Pawns.

2. On the second board, the first player only have two Black Knights and eight Black Pawns. The second player only has one White King and eight White Pawns.

3. Captured Pawn will be changed into Bishop. Captured Bishop will be changed into Knight. Captured Knight will be changed into Rook. Captured Rook will be changed into Queen. Captured Queen will be changed into Pawn. These captured pieces also include the pieces promoted from Pawn.

4. If any player are not able to move ore drop any piece on any board, the game will draw.

Notes

This game is my third chess variant.


This 'user submitted' page is a collaboration between the posting user and the Chess Variant Pages. Registered contributors to the Chess Variant Pages have the ability to post their own works, subject to review and editing by the Chess Variant Pages Editorial Staff.


By Yu Ren Dong.
Web page created: 2009-10-29. Web page last updated: 2009-10-29