Large Chess Variants

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ChessV Universal Chess Program. Open source universal Chess program with a graphical user-interface. Author: Greg Strong.
Courier Chess. A large historic variant from Medieval Europe. (12x8, Cells: 96) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Grand Chess. Christian Freeling's popular large chess variant on 10 by 10 board. Rules and links. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
Omega Chess. Commercial chess variant on board with 104 squares. (10x10, Cells: 104) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Daniel Macdonald.
SMIRF. Program that plays various 8x10 chess variants. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Reinhard Scharnagl.
Tamerlane chess. A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj. (11x10, Cells: 112) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Wildebeest Chess. Variant on an 10 by 11 board with extra jumping pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: R. Wayne Schmittberger.

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2 'Program' entries listed	156 'Zillions of Games file' entries listed
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22 'Three dimensional' entries listed	2 'Four or more dimensional' entries listed
800 'Large board' entries listed	1 'Small board' entry listed
47 'Three or more players' entries listed	37 'Oriental' entries listed
46 'From ancient times' entries listed	2 'Uses dice' entries listed
12 'Uses cards' entries listed	7 'War game' entries listed
64 'Unorthodox shaped board' entries listed	24 'Board with hexagonal shaped cells' entries listed
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50 'In a category all its own' entries listed	26 'Each player has a different army' entries listed
35 'Sold commercially' entries listed	20 'Chess combined with some other game or sport' entries listed
3 'Solitaire game, puzzle or chess problem' entries listed	14 'Xiangqi, or Xiangqi-based' entries listed
35 'Shogi, or Shogi-based' entries listed

Total items listed: 800

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