It would be great to have a 2-player bughouse on this site. Please see http://www.chessvariants.org/multiplayer.dir/tandem.html "Bughouse per e-mail".

I think bughouse is the most popular of chess variants (if you don't count national variants like Xiangi or Shogi). It is usually played by 4 people, but I think 2-player version should be fun as well.

It would be very nice to have a "synchrounus" version of Bughouse for 2-players here, see Bughouse and Tandem Chess, section "Bughouse per e-mail".

Chessmaster1000: Yes, you are right. It is not so easy for white to win. May be the game is a draw. I don't see how white can continue attack without bringing own King into danger.

Fencer: Hm, looks like white has a forced win with this addtional rule: 1. Nb8-c6 Ng1-f3 2. Nc6-b4 (threatens 3. Nb4-d3++) Nf3-e5 3. Ng8-f6 N b1-c3 4. Nf6-g4! and white wins.

Nightstorm: Probably it is better to play Shatranj
as Chaturanga rules are not exactly known. Some historicans even doubt at all if chaturanga really existed.

I played several games of Shatranj against ChessV and it is quite interesting. The only problem is that games are usually very long, probably twice as long as in chess.

You probably meant "bughouse"? We don't have it here, but you can try "Loop Chess" instead (2-player version of bughouse).

I found this interesting site: Экзотические шашки (Exotic checkers). It is in russian language, but there are enough diagramms. Beside other checkers variants, it contains three chess+checkers variants.

May be checkers should start in reserve. On your move you can either make a move on the board, or place a checker from reserve anywhere on the board.

Yes Kevin, you win by either checkmating your opponent's king, or disallowing your opponent to have his anti-king threatened. Anti-King cannot be captured.

More detailed rules can be found on http://www.chessvariants.com/diffobjective.dir/anti-king-chess.html, see "Anti-King Chess II".

There is one great chess variant, which is little known, but is very interesting: Anti-King Chess (invented by Peter Aronson). All rules are the same as in standard chess, except that a new piece is added: Anti-King. The Anti-King is under check when it is not attacked! It is a checkmate, if it can't leave such position. The Anti-King can't capture enemy pieces. At the start white Anti-King is placed on d6, black on d3.

I played this chess variants several times against Zillions-of-Games, but Zillions is not especially strong in it. It would be much more fun to play this chess variant on BrainKing!