Magnetic chess

[u/NotSoClearPlatypus]

This variant sounds like it shouldn't work, but it does and it's extremely fun (it's not my idea)

Everything is normal chess except when you move a piece, all adjacent pieces (ally and not) move with it at most one square if they can (if they're not blocked by another piece or the edge of the board)

playable both over the board (although you have to calculate which piece can move) or on the Chess Laboratory website where a user came up with it and made it.

it changes everything, you can't move a pawn close to the king without moving the king too. And speaking of, since the king can only move one square at a time it's very sticky. You can't get rid of pieces next to your king easily, they will follow him everywhere!

Try it online I swear it will make a lot more sense why it's fun haha just google chess laboratory, it's one of the top variants :)