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New chess variant: duck chess!

Chess.com has added a handful of new variants, and one of them is understandably sweeping all the video bloggers. Duck chess sounds kind of dumb, but I am finding it addictive – basically, it’s just like a normal chess game, except every move you have to move a little duck around the board. What does the duck do? It’s basically a brick sitting on a square, blocking anything that tries to go through it, other than knights jumping over it. The net effect, as best I can tell so far, is substantial…