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Playing atomic helped my standard western chess (and xiangqi, and shogi) improve. The improvement was maybe about 200 points passively. I would say that going into a variant expecting to get better at…

You can input PGNs from non-starting positions. See the PGN specifications: http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.htm#c9.7 So if you have a whole game and want to input just a frag…

wild5 is available on https://www.pychess.org/ (create a new normal chess game, and under Alternate Start choose "UpsideDown").

Come to the House discord, where the strongest variant players on the site hang out (not an exaggeration). We can also point you to the reading materials for each of those variants if you want to impr…

No, it won't affect you. In fact, don't think of crazyhouse as merely a chess variant, think of it as a different game altogether. You have to calculate and evaluate positions differently from normal …

I have a number of atomic chess endgame studies (see my lichess studies... studies of studies?), some orthodox proof games and retros, and some slightly odder ones. Here's one of my better attempts. P…

You can, if you're a team leader. Go to your team page, then "settings" on the left side (just under the team tournament and message options), then select "Team leaders" and type the names of whoever …

@Donaldsen Don't ping thibault for something as trivial as this. You should contact a moderator to get a team deleted instead.

@boorchess You can ask around on the pychess discord server to find interested players for a game (link is on the pychess homepage). There is already a place to play Placement chess. At this point wha…