42floors.com/blog/posts/how-do-y … to-love-it (includes a video)
Harrumph. Didn’t anybody tell these players to move the piece and press the clock with the same hand?
Also, with just 2 players Half Bughouse is a much better game. Only one board and one set of pieces is involved. Captured pieces stay off the board, as in regular chess.
At any move, a player may make any normal, legal chess move or capture, OR may move any friendly piece (already on the board) to any empty square, subject to the following rules:
- King moves must be normal, legal king moves.
- Captures must be normal, legal chess captures.
- Pawns may not be placed on the first or eighth ranks, except when promoting normally from the seventh.
- Of course, checks must be respected, and checkmate ends the game.
Here is a typical Half Bughouse brevity:
- h2-g6 h7xg6
- Rh1xh8 a7-g3
- Bc1-e3 b7-f4
- Rh8xg8 f4xe3
- Rg8xf8+ Kxf8
- Qh8+ Bc8-g8
- Nb1-h7+ Ke8
- Qh8-f8 mate
Bill Smythe
Crazyhouse is a 2-player variant that is popular online. When a piece is captured, it changes color and you can use it just as in bughouse. For example, white captures a black knight, then it converts into a white knight that may be dropped on a future move.
Unfortunately, this game can get messy face-to-face because you need two chess sets.
If you really wanted to play this game face to face, you could make some Shogi-like tiles that indiate ownership by orientation, not color.
Or you could just play Shogi.