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bughouse chess

chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two
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bughouse chess
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bughouse chess

Summary

bughouse chess is a chess variant[1]. It draws 2,699 Wikipedia views per month (chess_variant category, ranking #7 of 63).[2]

Key Facts

  • bughouse chess's instance of is recorded as chess variant[3].
  • bughouse chess's instance of is recorded as four-player chess[4].
  • bughouse chess's Commons category is recorded as Bughouse chess[5].
  • bughouse chess's sport is recorded as chess[6].
  • bughouse chess's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/bughouse[7].

Why It Matters

bughouse chess draws 2,699 Wikipedia views per month (chess_variant category, ranking #7 of 63).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . chessvariants.org. chessvariants.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . chessvariants.org. chessvariants.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'i
    Gnd id → 7567511-0
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0328153-bughouse-sach
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0328153-bughouse-sach, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  3. 22w ago · Saldanha-mareo · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → chess variant, four-player chess
    Sport → chess
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P641]]: [[Q718]], #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1777734695293"
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