Is considered not to have moved so one may castle with such a Rook. This is done in lieu of aĪ captured Pawn may not be placed on the 1st or the 8th Onto an empty square on the board to be used as ones own. Game which has a special feature: All captured pieces are given to ones partner. For each team, one player plays with white pieces and the other plays with black. This requires that two chessboards be placed side by side with partners sitting on the same side of the table (see above). The game is played by two teams of two players each.

Orthodox Chess boards are set up for four players as follows: We will begin with the more popular Bughouse Chess and then discuss the rule changes that distinguish the older Tandem Chess variant. (Perhaps a reader can supply this information.) There is even a Bughouse Newsletter, but I do not know the address. (I remember having played Bughouse in a Dutch chess club at around 1970.) The game has since became quite popular, with tournaments being heald consistantly up to the present time. In theĮncyclopedia of Chess Variants, Pritchard estimates that Bughouse was created in the 1960s.

Introduction Bughouse Chess, and its close relative Tandem Chess, are played around the world under a number of different names: Exchange Chess, Pass-On Chess, Double Bughouse, New England Double Bughouse Chess, Siamese Chess (for Tandem Chess), and Tandem Put-Back. Website with excerpts from book on Bughouse Chess.

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