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In Australia we call it 'Transfer chess', or normally just 'Transfer'. 
Normally played with 5 minute time controls, no increment, and the team
loses when either player loses.  When a player is about to get mated they
will wait until their time runs out, unless their partner's opponent has
more time, in which case they will resign :)

Table talk generally includes 'knight is mate' (meaning that player can
give checkmate with a knight) or 'don't give him a knight!' (meaning if
that player's opponent gets a knight, some kind of terrible disaster will
happen), but suggestions of moves to play for your partner are frowned
upon.

Questions like 'Should I sac my queen for a pawn?' are also acceptable.

In Mexico Bughouse is known as ESPARTACO like the Roman slave. Drop a pawn
in 7th rank is not permited, but the rules can vary and nobody knows how it
came to Mexico, but it is really delightful specially for young people, who
considers it with so much excitement.

Very nice introduction to bughouse. For the players interested in 
online bughouse the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) located at
www.freechess.org is a very good starting point.

The one thing I would correct is that in bughouse, you must press the clock
before you pass the piece. Because your turn is not effectively completed
until you press your clock you could still do something else (as is the
case in blitz when touch-move is not in play). I have seen more than once
what happens when in over-the-board someone takes a piece and then doesn't
press his clock: the opponent may try to move but the player could claim,
'But I haven't pressed my clock yet.' Of course, in over the board play,
if you press your clock you don't necessarily have to pass the
piece...especially if you are playing with 5 people and the loser is out!

Otherwise the page looks good!

-LittleKarpov 
(Rated 2005 on FICS)

Hi!

Good page, but the links are a bit outdated. 

Check out: thebugboard.net, bughouse.info for some good links and
software to download.
Also if you want to play bughouse or crazyhouse online The freechess
server freechess.org is the place to be! 

the link http://www.bughousechess.com/ mentioned on the page does no
longer exists.

I have recently received some emails on the possibility of implementing
Bughouse for Zillions of Games. Let me say here that this is impossible.
The asynchronous nature of Bughouse makes it impossible to implement
Bughouse for Zillions of Games. In order to accomodate Bughouse, Zillions
of Games would have to be updated to allow asynchronous communication
between two separately running games. At present, it does not allow any
communication between separately running games, whether synchronous or
asynchronous.

However, the synchronous version of Bughouse, the one that can be played
by email, has been implemented by Karl Scherer as Transfer Chess. It can
be found at this URL:

http://www.zillions-of-games.com/games/transferchess.html

The Zillions link provided by Fergus Duniho is incorrect.  It should be the
following page:
http://zillionsofgames.com/games/BughouseChess.html

Good bughouse websites are hard to find.  Here's a collection of essential
links for bughouse chess.

Rules and General Information
	http://www.bughouse.net
	http://www.bughouse.info
	http://www.chessvariants.com/multiplayer.dir/tandem.html
	http://mujweb.atlas.cz/sport/holandany/CompleteBughouseRules.htm

Strategy
	http://www.freechess.org/WWWhelp/bughouse_strat.html
	http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/f/e/ferrantc/chess
	http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1324/bug-strategy.html

Internet Chess Servers
	http://www.freechess.org (Free Internet Chess Server = FICS)
	http://www.jinchess.com/thief & http://www.knighttour.org/thief (Thief
Interface for FICS)
	http://www.nettank3d.com/ubd (Ultimate Bughouse Database for FICS)
	http://www.mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com/bughouse (Records for FICS)


PlayByEmail server
	http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/

BPGN viewers
	http://bughouse.net/ftp/bpgn21.exe (BPGN Viewer)
	http://bughouse.net/ftp/bugassistant02.zip (Bug Assistant)

Engines
	http://sunsetter.sourceforge.net (Sunsetter)
	http://sjeng.sourceforge.net (Sjeng)
	http://users.wpi.edu/~bdean/deepbug.html (Deepbug)

Games
	http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Bughouse.htm (Java)
	http://www.nonvi.com (Double Chess Demo)
	http://www.rocler.qc.ca/netblitz/index.htm (NetBlitz)

Zillions of Games
	http://www.zillions-of-games.com/games/BughouseChess.html (Bughouse)
	http://www.zillions-of-games.com/games/crazyhouse.html (Crazyhouse)

Discussion Board
	http://www.thebugboard.net

Links
	http://home.planetinternet.be/plotpro/
	http://dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Abstract/Battle_Games/Chess/Variants/Bughouse_Chess/

I play on the freechess.org server, and I wanted to add your information is
solid ecept bughouse.net and thebugboard.net are dead links as are 

the deepbug.html link for bdean., chess engine.


I want to invite all the Las Vegas Nevada, March 20, to March 24 , 2003

at the Gold Spike Hotel 7th Floor, we are holding a bughouse gathering
24/7 on the top floor of the  Downtown Hotel, rooms are just 22.00 per
night it is older hotel but it serves us well and we have about 30 to 40
buggers from all over the world.  log into www.freechess.org and register

talk to sgs or zap about the gathering, or finger sgs for more
information

Nitemove rated about 1200 to 1300 on freechess.org cheers !!! ie in
bughouse .... lol

The way that I have always played Bughouse is that:
A. Drops can only be done on your half of the board,
B. No dropping as to check the king,
C. First player to mate and his partner win.
Rule A seems to take a little of the potency of drops away, but it's not
that hard to move to the other side of the board.

3 first links at the top-right of this page (after 'See also:') are
broken. The fourth one is very good, but still need to be updated to point
directly to http://members.lycos.nl/bughouse/.

http://cashton.homeip.net/ubd/