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• Byzantine chess. A variant of Shatranj, played on a round board. (Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Circular Chess. Chess on a round board. (Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.

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• 2x2x16 Race Chess. Race Chess on a 2-level circular board with Crooked Bishops and Queens. (2x16x2, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• 3 Man Chess. Commercial three player chess variant on a round board. (Cells: 144) Author: David Howe.
• 3 Man Chess - Review. Review of commercial three player chess variant on round board. (Cells: 144) Author: David Howe.

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• Announcement Circular Chess World Championship 2004. (Cells: 64)

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• By Rook Or by Crook. Chess in the round on a hexagonal board with 42 trapezoidal squares. (Cells: 42) By Jeff Rients.
• Byzanatine Chess. Circular 16x4 Shatranj variant. (Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Byzanatine Chess II. A different account of the old circular game. (Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Byzantine Chess . A variant of Shatranj, played on a round board. (Cells: 64) Author: Robert Price.
• Byzantine chess. A variant of Shatranj, played on a round board. (Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Byzantine Chess endgames. Queen vs Pawn. Endgame analysis for historic round chess variant. (Cells: 64) Author: Ernst Saperow.
• Byzantine Chess Theory. Towards the theory of Byzantine Chess. (Cells: 64) Author: Ernst Saperow and Anatoly Khalfine.

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• Cai Qi. Chesslike game on circular board. (Cells: 89) Inventor: Patrick Hassel Zein.
• CHESS Eccentricities, By Major George Hope Verney. Images from the book (complete). Author: George Hope Verney.
• Chess in the Round . A commercial variant on a round board. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Chess in the Round. 1970's commercial variant that allows turning corners with the Rook and Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Barry Yoner.
• Chessnuts 1999. Chessnuts is the newsletter of the Circular Chess Society. This is the 1999 issue. Author: Rob Stevens.
• 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.
• Circular. (Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
• Circular Chess . Chess on a round board with modern pieces. (Cells: 64) Author: Robert Price. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
• Circular Chess. D. Reynolds's Circular Chess, a modern version of a Byzantine variant (with zrf). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Circular Chess. Unique circular board. Sells boards, pieces, and software. (Cells: 68) By Alan Mattlage and Martin Mattlage.
• Circular Chess. PBM Preset for Circular Chess. (16x4, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
• Circular Chess. Chess on a round board. (Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
• Circular Chess Championship for 2002 Announced. (Cells: 64) Author: Rob Stevens.
• The Circular Chess Society. Organization for players of Circular Chess. (Cells: 64) Author: Rob Stevens. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
• Circular Chess Society Information Pack. Rules of Circular Chess and Information on the Circular Chess Society. (Cells: 64) Author: Rob Stevens. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
• Circular Chess Tournament for 2005. 10th Anniversary World Circular Chess Tournament. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Dave Reynolds and Richard Orange.
• Circular Chess World Championship 2000. Article from Variant Chess. (Cells: 64) Author: John Beasley.
• Circular Chess World Championship 2003. (16x4, Cells: 64)
• Circular Chess, Improved. Circular Chess where Bishops and Queens are crooked, and all Pawns go in the same direction. (2x16, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Cylindrical Chess. Sides of the board are supposed to be connected. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Antoine Fourrière.

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• Dartboard Chess. circular all-three-compounds variant, with different orthogonal ranges on different files. (5x20, Cells: 100) By Charles Gilman.
• Decimal Quadruple Besiege. Army based on Échecs De L'Escalier arranged on enlarged Quadruple Besiege board. (20x20, Cells: 200) By Charles Gilman.
• Diamond Ring Chess. Courier-style pieces to diamond-shaped camps on a toroidal wraparound board. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
• Diplomat Chess. Round-board variant with a Diplomat to suborn opponents. (Cells: 43) Author: Carlos Martin-Fuertes.
• Double Cross Besiege. A spinoff from Besiege Chess using FIDE-size armies. (8x16, Cells: 96) By Charles Gilman.

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• Ecutunnel and Ecumillstone. 3d versions of twin-board Ecumenical Chess, with a new front-rank piece. (4x12x4, Cells: 192) By Charles Gilman.

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• Flipworld. Pieces are on both sides of a disc. (6x7x2, Cells: 84) By John Ryan.
• Flipworld . Pieces are on both sides of a disc. (7x6x2, Cells: 84) Author: Dan Troyka. Inventor: John Ryan.

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• Global Chess. A chess game played on a board composed of two rotating disks. (x2, Cells: 64) Author: Robert LeRoy.
• Global Chess . A chess game played on a board composed of two rotating disks. (x2, Cells: 64)
• A Guide to Variant Chess. Variant Chess Games. Author: George Jelliss.

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• Heroic Round Chess. A variant on a round board with 2-, 3-, and 4-component compound pieces. (6x18, Cells: 108) By Charles Gilman.
• Hexagonal Round Chess. Combined Byzantine Chess with Rex Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Arnaldo Rodrigues D’Almeida.
• Holochess . Holographic chess-like game played in Star Wars movie. (Cells: 25) By Mike Kelley.
• House of Kay. Company selling a circular chess board. (Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.

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• Imperial Chess I. Four-player game on circular board, also called Chez. (Cells: 128) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Donald irvin Gebhart.
• Imperial Chess II. Standard array with extra Pawns on a round board. (Cells: 112) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Chris Fanning.

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• Knights of the Round Table. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adam Goss.

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• Mark Davis's Chess Designs . With a round chess board. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Mark Davis.
• Marmara. A Byzantine Chess variant featuring Trojan Horses. (4x16, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.

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• Noble Celts: Game Review. Circular chess variant. (Cells: 64) Author: Ben Good.

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• QB Goes East 162 squares. Quadruple Besiege versions of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots using double sets on 2 9x9 boards. (Cells: 162) By Charles Gilman.
• QB Goes East 98 squares. Quadruple Besiege versions of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots using single sets on 2 7x7 boards. (Cells: 98) By Charles Gilman.
• Quadruple Besiege Chess. A variant on a "finite but unbounded" board comprising two FIDE boards notionally joined on every edge. (Cells: 128) By Charles Gilman.

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• Review: 3 Man Chess. (Cells: 144) Author: David Howe.
• Review: Noble Celts. (Cells: 64) Author: Ben Good.
• Review: Roundtable Chess. Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Round chess. A variant of Shatranj, played on a round board. (Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Round Table Chess. Chess variant on a board with round and square part. (Cells: 92) By Richard G. VanDeventer.
• Round Table Chess 84. Chess on a special round board with 84 squares. (Cells: 84) By Richard G. VanDeventer.
• Round Table Chess 84 . Chess on a special round board with 84 squares. (Cells: 84) By Richard G. VanDeventer.
• Roundtable Chess. A review. Author: Fergus Duniho.

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• The Circular Chess Society. Homepage of British organization playing Circular Chess. (16x4, Cells: 64) Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
• Toroidal Byzantine Chess. Circular chess modified to also be toroidal. (Cells: 64) By Anatoly Khalfine and Ernst Saperow.
• TriChezz. Chess for three on a circular board. Classic proprietary game. (24x4, Cells: 96) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Donald irvin Gebhart.
• Tryzantine Chess. A three-handed form of Byzantine (circular) Chess. (4x21, Cells: 84) By Charles Gilman.
• Turn Qi. Cannonless Xiang Qi on a Byzantine-style board, complete with Byzantine geography! (18x5, Cells: 90) By Charles Gilman.
• Twin-board Ecumenical Chess. Ecumenical Chess with extra Pawns, on two FIDE boards joined together on one or more edges. (Cells: 128) By Charles Gilman.

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• Viking Chess. Game board and pieces in search of rules. (Cells: 37) Author: Michael Ireland.

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• W.A.R.P.S. . Chess variant on round board with new pieces. (16x8, Cells: 128) Author: Burns O. Starkes II. Inventor: Joshua Madovoy and Charles G. Simms III.

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