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• 3Few Chess. Like Chess but 3 Shogi per side. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.

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• Ackanomic Party Chess. Multiplayer chess inside a `Nomic' game. Author: Uri Bruck.
• Ackanomic PartyChess. Multiplayer chess inside a `Nomic' game. Author: Uri Bruck.
• Arabian Nights Chess. Paul Newton's game on the Game Courier. (9x9, Cells: 84) Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Paul E. Newton and Timothy R. Newton.
• Australian Football Chess. Game based on Australian Rules Football and Chess. (9x13, Cells: 85) By Robert Winkel.

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• Bingo Chess. A cross between Chess and Bingo. (Cells: 41) By Doug Chatham.
• Byelorussian Cheskers . Crossover between chess and Russian draughts. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: N. N. Grushevsky.
• Byelorussian Cheskers. Crossover between chess and Russian draughts. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: N. N. Grushevsky.
• Byelorussian Chesskers. Pieces promote to "Damkas" in this Chess Checkers Hybrid. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Uwe Wiedemann and N. N. Grushevsky.

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• Card Bet Chess. Betting chess with cards telling you which moves are OK. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Chaughts. A mixture of chess and international draughts. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mark Hedden.
• CheGo. Drop chess pieces on the board to control the largest number of squares. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Alfred Pfeiffer.
• Chelma. A cross between Chess and Halma. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Lewicki.
• Chelma. A cross between Chess and Halma. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Andy Lewicki.
• Chesica. Game from the 19th Century combining elements of Checkers and Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Frederick S. Copley.
• Chesica . Game from the 19th Century combining elements of Checkers and Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Frederick S. Copley.
• Cheskers. Cross-variant between chess and checkers. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Solomon W. Golomb.
• Cheskers. The most popular cross between checkers and chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Solomon W. Golomb.
• Cheskers. Fun and simple crossover between chess and checkers invented by professor Solomon W. Golomb. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Solomon W. Golomb.
• Cheskers . Cross-variant between chess and checkers. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Solomon W. Golomb.
• Cheskers and Grand Cheskers . Cross-variant between chess and checkers, with variants on larger boards. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Solomon W. Golomb.
• Chess Dial. Play starts with Shogi, then mutates into Xiang Qi, then FIDE Chess, then Shogi again! (9x10, Cells: 90) By John Smith.
• Chess Draughts. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Mannis Charosh.
• Chess Pool. Game played on a pool table, inspired by chess. By Robert Price.
• Chess Pool. Sample game of Chess Pool v. 0.50. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Robert Price.
• Chess Soccer . Chess Soccer game on a 9x9 board with no Pawns, no Captures, two goals and one ball. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Marek14 . Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
• Chess Variant. Taking the two most famous Fairies into Capablanca. (10x10, Cells: 100) By John Smith.
• Chess with Wizards. A Decimal Chess Variant with Antoine Fourrière's Wizards. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Chessball. Play football on a chessboard. (5x8, Cells: 40) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: U. N. Kamzolov.
• ChessNim. Drop chess pieces and reduce the number of unattacked squares on the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Alfred Pfeiffer.
• ChessNim. Drop chess pieces and reduce the number of unattacked squares on the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Doug Chatham. Inventor: Alfred Pfeiffer.
• Chessopoly . Board with a hole in the middle where pawns move clockwise. (12x12, Cells: 128) Author: Andrew Juell. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Chessopoly. Board with a hole in the middle where pawns move clockwise. (12x12, Cells: 128) By Ralph Betza.
• Cheversi. A mix of chess pieces and reversi-like strategy. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Lewicki.
• Cheversi Solitaire. Solitaire version of Cheversi. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Lewicki.
• Condi Chess. Speed chess with the clock twelve meters from the board. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Congo. Demian Freeling's Congo on the Game Courier. (7x7, Cells: 49) Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Demian Freeling.
• Connect Capture. A mix of dots and boxes with chess pieces. By Rick Nordal.
• Courtyard. Combines the ease of learning checkers with the challenge and variety of chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: John Ayer. Inventor: Leonard Kalich.
• Cranko Scrabble Battle Chess . Combination of Scrabble and chess played with dice and cards. (15x15, Cells: 225) By Tony Newton.
• Crazy 38's. Ben Good's Crazy 38's on the Game Courier. (8x8, Cells: 38) Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Ben Good.

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• Dada. The colorbound chess variant. (7x10, Cells: 70) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Dada. The colorbound chess variant. (7x10, Cells: 70) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Danadazo. Game played on the 47 edges of a grid with rounded corners, borrowing elements from Tafl. (Cells: 47) By Jared B. McComb.
• Darts chess. Darts are thrown to decide with which piece to move. Author: Tim Thompson. Inventor: Ted Yudacufski.
• Diceless Chessgammon. Move all pieces off the opponents side of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Diffusion Chess. Pieces start out in groups and must continually break apart into smaller groups. Played on a GO board. (19x19, Cells: 361) By Alexandre Muñiz.
• Dipole Chess. A cross between Chess and the game Dipole by Mark Steere. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rich Hutnik.

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• Emperor of China. A Chess and Halma mixed game. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Vincent Everaert.
• Emperor of China. A cross between Chess and Halma. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Vincent Everaert.
• Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• European Chess. A multiplayer, different armies form of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Alex Nisnevich.

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• Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Hex Falcon on the Game Courier. (Cells: 121) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Falcon into the Hexagonal world. (Cells: 121) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Football Chess . A Football/Soccer game played with Chess pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
• Football Chess. A Football/Soccer game played with Chess pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
• Fussball Chess . Win by moving a piece to the starting square of the king of the opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Uwe Wiedemann.

G

• G.U.E. 3D Chess. A 3D Chess game paying homage to those really great Zork adventures. (6x6x3, Cells: 96) By Larry L. Smith.
• Gambler's Chess. A scheme for adding betting to any Chess variant. By Tomas Forsman.
• Gess. A Chess variant played on a Go board where pieces are collections of go stones. (18x18, Cells: 324) Author: Edward Jackman. Inventor: Archimedeans Mathematics Society.
• Gess Applet . (18x18, Cells: 324) Author: Craig Kaplan. Inventor: Archimedeans Mathematics Society.
• Go with chess pieces. Generalization of go-rules using chess pieces. (19x19, Cells: 361) By Hans L. Bodlaender.

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• Hafts. A denser Draughts, but with pieces only capturing those bound to the opposite colour. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
• Hockey Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Chuck S Smith.

I

• Ice Hockey Chess. Chess variant based upon rules of (Ice) Hockey. (8x10, Cells: 68) By Francois Tremblay.

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• Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Peter Aronson.
• Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Peter Aronson.
• Jumping Chess . Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Peter Aronson.

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• Kings. A modest variant with more than one king. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
• Koopa Chess. Form of chess based on the Mario Brothers series of video games. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Edward Kolis. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Kung Fu Chess . Simultaneous movement in chess variant as an action and thinking game. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.

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• Little Trio. (7x7, Cells: 64) Author: Nicholas Jay Wolff. Inventor: Jared B. McComb.

M

• Mad Queen Shogi. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
• Mad Queen Shogi. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
• Magic River. Xiang Qi pieces crossing the Magic River turn into their Western counterparts, and vice versa! (17x9, Cells: 77) By John Smith.
• Magichess . Chess variant that uses ideas from Magic: the Gathering card game. By Dennis Xay Voong.
• Make-A-Rule Chess. Sample game. Author: Randy King.
• Make-A-Rule Chess. Play chess and modify its rules concurrently. Chess with Nomic. Author: Randy King. Inventor: Nyegosh Dube.
• Modern Makruk. A fusion of Modern Chess and Makruk. (9x8, Cells: 72) By John Smith.

N

• New Football . A crossover of a strategy board game with football. (16x24)
• Nomic Chess. Combination of Peter Suber's Nomic with Ralph Betza's Chess For Any Number of Players. By David Howe.

P

• Pachessi . Race and chess game on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. (7x7, Cells: 40) By Peter Aronson.
• Pachessi. Race and chess game on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. (7x7, Cells: 40) By Peter Aronson.
• Poker Chess. Squares contain cards, and players win by forming poker hands with the cards on the squares occupied by their pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.

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• Queen of the Night Chess. An over powered game on the Standard Board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.

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• Radical Chess . Commercial chess variant with 16 different pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Inventor: Daryl Fazekas.
• Reversi Chess. Pieces closed in on a line can be converted to the other side. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Terry H. Jones.

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• Schachdame. Variant between Checkers and Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Heinrich Richter.
• Schachdame . Variant between Checkers and Chess. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Heinrich Richter.
• Schachmühle . Morris game played on a Chessboard with Chess pieces. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
• Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. I G Shafran's Game on the Game Courier. (Cells: 70) Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Isaak Grigorevich Shafran.
• Shifting Chess. Variant inspired on shifting puzzles; one can move pieces of the board. (8x8, Cells: 56) By David Howe.
• Shogi with Cannons. (9x9, Cells: 81) By John Smith.
• Shogi With Pokémons. Pokemons with special powers are added to an otherwise normal shogi board. (11x11, Cells: 121) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Soccer Chess. Chess Variant inspired by soccer. (11x17, Cells: 189) By João Pedro Neto.
• Springermühle . Chessboard Morris game played with Knights. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
• Stealth Chess. Commercial game with elements from Chess and from Stratego. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Mark Thompson. Inventor: Dice Corporation.
• Steeple Chess . Crossover between race game and chess.
• Storm the Ivory Tower. Play this Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess by email. (9x10, Cells: 90) By Fergus Duniho.
• Sudoku Chess . (9x9, Cells: 81) By Doug Chatham.
• Sudoku War. A fight that takes place in a Sudoku. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Joost Aan de Brugh.
• Sudoku War . A fight that takes place in a Sudoku. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Joost Aan de Brugh.
• Swedish Cannon Chess. Mats Winther's new piece and game on the Game Courier. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Mats Winther.

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• Tandem-84. Jim Aikin's Tandem-84 on the Game Courier. (6x7x2, Cells: 84) Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
• Tee Garden Shogi. Not itself a spelling mistake, but inspired by several potential ones. (9x9, Cells: 72) By Charles Gilman.
• Themed Chess Variants. A listing of chess variants based an various themes. Author: Brett Ward.
• Toto40. Staircase board with fighting line in the middle, inspired by Totolospi game of Hopi Indians. (Cells: 40) By Peter Aronson.
• Toto40 . Staircase board with fighting line in the middle, inspired by Totolospi game of Hopi Indians. (Cells: 40) Author: Jens Markmann. Inventor: Peter Aronson.
• Touchdown chess . Win by scoring touchdowns: move your pieces across the goal line in this commercial chess variant. (16x20, Cells: 320)
• Turmmühle . Chessboard Morris game played with Rooks. By Uwe Wiedemann.

U

• Ulchesgi. Like Ultima and Chess and Shogi. (12x8, Cells: 96) By (zzo38) A. Black.

V

• Vietnamese Chess . Each player has a King, which captures cannon-style, and 11 non-capturing Pawns on a 25-intersection Alquerque-style board. (5x5, Cells: 25) Author: Marek14 .

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• Wand Chess. Pieces have a magic wand, that gives random outcomes. By Ralph Betza.
• Way of the Knight . Pieces with experience levels: a `role playing variant'. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Glenn Overby II and Sam Trenholme. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Way of the Knight. Pieces with experience levels: a `role playing variant'. By Ralph Betza.

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• Zebulon. German commercial game with bluffing with chess pieces and connection forming. (7x7) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Herbert Schuetzdeller.

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