Like once a month, a different person submit a variant of chess to HN. I played a lot of chess when I was a kid, so I try most of them.
IIUC most of them just put a standard chess engine over the new rules. I consider I'm not a bad player, but the engines destroys me, even with the weird rules.
* https://chess39.com/ I only win if the computer start with a very bad initial position and in the first 2 or 3 moves I get huge advantage, because I slowly lose the advantage. Hopefully the game ends before I lose all the initial wins. Sometimes the computer "gives up" and exchange pieces unnecessary, that is not the optimal strategy when you assume the opponent (in this case me) is a worse player. Perhaps it's necessary to train to AI to pay assuming the opponent may blunder.
* [Another variant I can't find now. Each piece changes when it moves P->N->B->R-Q->P->...] The changes of the pieces confuses the engine too much and it's easy to win using some tricks. I guess some variants are just too different and need a lot of additional training.
IIUC most of them just put a standard chess engine over the new rules. I consider I'm not a bad player, but the engines destroys me, even with the weird rules.
* https://chess39.com/ I only win if the computer start with a very bad initial position and in the first 2 or 3 moves I get huge advantage, because I slowly lose the advantage. Hopefully the game ends before I lose all the initial wins. Sometimes the computer "gives up" and exchange pieces unnecessary, that is not the optimal strategy when you assume the opponent (in this case me) is a worse player. Perhaps it's necessary to train to AI to pay assuming the opponent may blunder.
* [Another variant I can't find now. Each piece changes when it moves P->N->B->R-Q->P->...] The changes of the pieces confuses the engine too much and it's easy to win using some tricks. I guess some variants are just too different and need a lot of additional training.