Small Chess Variants

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44-squares chess variant design contest.. Our annual N-squares chess variant design competition. (Cells: 44) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Crazy 38's. On strange board with 38 squares. (Cells: 38) (Recognized!) By Ben Good.
Flip Chess and Flip Shogi. Pieces have two sides with different movements on board of 38 squares. (7x6, Cells: 38) (Recognized!) By John William Brown.
Los Alamos variant. Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Minishogi. On a 5 by 5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Shigenobu Kusumo.

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2 'Reference item' entries listed	1 'Program' entry listed
147 'Zillions of Games file' entries listed	10 'Photograph page' entries listed
20 'Java Program' entries listed	50 'Play by mail item' entries listed
17 'Contest' entries listed	4 'Sample Game' entries listed
4 'One dimensional' entries listed	3 'Three dimensional' entries listed
3 'Large board' entries listed	522 'Small board' entries listed
10 'Three or more players' entries listed	35 'Oriental' entries listed
2 'From ancient times' entries listed	2 'Uses dice' entries listed
95 'Unorthodox shaped board' entries listed	29 'Board with hexagonal shaped cells' entries listed
3 'Circular shaped board' entries listed	35 'In a category all its own' entries listed
9 'Each player has a different army' entries listed	18 'Sold commercially' entries listed
10 'Chess combined with some other game or sport' entries listed	4 'Solitaire game, puzzle or chess problem' entries listed
17 'Xiangqi, or Xiangqi-based' entries listed	30 'Shogi, or Shogi-based' entries listed

Total items listed: 522

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