I love playing the lichess variants, but how about this idea:
Every 5 moves you get to make your opponents move for them
So otherwise the game is normal but for those 1 in 5 moves you can move their queen to a vulnerable square etc
I like it
just silly, and probably OP for white too
every variant probably sounded silly when it was first suggested
Sounds boring to me, because you could blunder for your opponent(yes he can do this to you too). What about for the first 5 moves you have to give your opponent 3 different moves you like to do (in every turn) and he has to choose one of them. For example first move with white: I suggest to my opponent: e4, d4, knight c3. Then black choose one of my moves and black will continue the same way as white. This will last for the first 5 moves.
@Cedur216 how about you chose what piece your opponent has to move? You could chose the queen but your opponent get to decide where.
@Flightcaptain said in #5:
> Sounds boring to me, because you could blunder for your opponent(yes he can do this to you too). What about for the first 5 moves you have to give your opponent 3 different moves you like to do (in every turn) and he has to choose one of them. For example first move with white: I suggest to my opponent: e4, d4, knight c3. Then black choose one of my moves and black will continue the same way as white. This will last for the first 5 moves.
I do like the idea, but I think it would become a hassle and take so long just to make one move
PSA: you can invent hundreds of "variants" by just a single idea to alter one tiny thing of the game or creating one tiny additional rule, and call it a "variant".
But most of these are way too similar, hence not interesting and all variants end up ignored if there are way too many of them. Lichess does a wise job by having eight very distinct variants and no more. Even then, variants are generally only 10% as popular as standard chess. There's pychess for more sophisticated variants, but it severely lacks influence.
I do not like variants in general. Standard chess is hard enough, there's no need for something else to keep me interested in the game. The only variant I think has a legitimate reason to be taken serious is chess 960 because it solves an actual problem of modern chess. But that problem only exists at the highest echelons. At my level I am perfectly content with just playing old fashioned, centuries old chess.
