Sure, just hang your queen.
Can I give a handicap on Chess.com?
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Yeah sure. Removing the piece from the starting position would be cleaner though.
It is a real issue.
Dec 15, 2016
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You can do it in Daily chess. You have to start from a custom FEN position, just include the starting position with whatever odds you want.
Have a few drinks before the game...
jdmuys wrote:
The problem is he is much weaker than me. Is there a way for me to give him some handicap when playing on chess.com?
You could suggest he make a friend request to Kaynight ?
There goes my Christmas card...
Dec 15, 2016
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stuzzicadenti wrote:
You can just pretend to play worse - I do this all the time against lower rated opponents.
You are not doing them any favors
lol
Martin_Stahl wrote:
You can do it in Daily chess. You have to start from a custom FEN position, just include the starting position with whatever odds you want.
Every bit of this is true. On to the next thread!
Dec 15, 2016
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Good point morethantwenty. Seriously, keep him away from these fora.
lol
Play the king's gambit.
Dec 15, 2016
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Martin_Stahl wrote:
You can do it in Daily chess. You have to start from a custom FEN position, just include the starting position with whatever odds you want.
Awesome! I didn't know that had been implemented. That feature had been on the wish list for years!
Dec 15, 2016
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pwwaring wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
You can do it in Daily chess. You have to start from a custom FEN position, just include the starting position with whatever odds you want.
Awesome! I didn't know that had been implemented. That feature had been on the wish list for years!
There was a bug a week or so ago on that that I ran into but has been fixed now. You just have to go into Custom Challenge and change the Type to Custom FEN.
Interestingly enough, it doesn't have to be unrated currently. Also, as it stands when I tried it, if you do a position from later in the game and have the move # in the FEN, it honors that and you won't be able to abort if you set something up incorrectly; you have to resign. Had that happen twice 
... luckily I was doing it as unrated.
Dec 15, 2016
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Martin_Stahl wrote:
Interestingly enough, it doesn't have to be unrated currently.
Interestingly enough, it doesn't have to be unrated currently.
Hmm, well, let's hope they change that!
Also, as it stands when I tried it, if you do a position from later in the game and have the move # in the FEN, it honors that and you won't be able to abort if you set something up incorrectly; you have to resign. Had that happen twice ... luckily I was doing it as unrated.
Thanks, that's good to know too! I'll mostly use it to play unrated odds games with my son and my girlfriend, but good to know to not get bitten by it in the future...
I hope they carry this change through through to the Android and iOS apps too, so unrated and custom games can be started there as well.
Hello,
I made my 13 yo nephew join chess.com recently, and we have started playing online (he lives very far, and we cannot play IRL).
The problem is he is much weaker than me. Is there a way for me to give him some handicap when playing on chess.com? I'd start with queen or rook odds for example.
Thanks,
JD