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• Avalanche chess. A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Edward Jackman. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Marseillais Chess. Move twice per turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Antoine Fourričre.
• Progressive Chess. Several variants where white moves one time, black twice, white three times, etc. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Alessandro Castelli.

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• 007 Chess. 007 Chess involves three move per turn, including one of your opponent's pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Edward Jackman.
• 007 Chess. A variant where you also move your opponents pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Edward Jackman.

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• 1st WWW Progressive Fischer Random Chess Championship. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• 2nd WWW Progressive Fischer Random Chess Championship. (8x8, Cells: 64)

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• Accelerated Chess. White makes one move at first and then each player makes either a capturing move or two non-capturing moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Tony Paletta.
• Alternating Chess III. Each side alternates between moving pawn and piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Amazons. Queens fire arrows to make squares unpassable. Last player that moves wins. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Antoine Fourričre. Inventor: Walter Zamkauskas.
• Arimaa. Uses same equipment as Chess, but designed to be difficult for computers. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Omar Syed and Aamir Syed.
• Avalanche chess. A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Edward Jackman. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Avalanche Chess . A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Young-Hyun Joo. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Avalanche Chess. A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Antoine Fourričre. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Avalanche Chess. Advance the opponent's pawns. Popular variant. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Avalanche Chess 2. As before, except that the red king and queen are switched. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Ralph Betza.

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• Balanced Game, The. A game that requires a calm equilibrium. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Simon E Jepps.
• Bank of Scotland -- Main Branch. Progressive Variant where each check earns the player an extra move, and check ends turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Bob Bruce and Bruce R Trone.
• Battle Chess. Move as many of your units as you like, once each, each turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Battle Line. A military-style variant with 48 pieces per side. (30x20, Cells: 600) By Joe Joyce.
• Bennekom Double Move Chess. Move twice per turn with the same piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Billiards progressive chess. Progressive chess variant where queens and bishops bounce against the edges of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fabio Forzoni.
• Black and White Chess. Two moves per turn, the first from a white square, the second. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
• BordahBee. A two-move, two-board game with restrictions for the second move according to the first move. (8x8x2, Cells: 128) By Gary K. Gifford.
• BordahBee, A Two-Board Game (two 8x8 boards). (8x8x2, Cells: 128) By Gary K. Gifford.

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• Canadian Progressive Chess. Usually Canadian Chess is played progressively. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Capturing Progressive Chess. Scotch Chess, but if no capture is made the count drops back to one. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Central Chess. Move twice per turn, once in center and once on edge. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Cheapo. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Chess Draughts. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Mannis Charosh.
• Chess960.com. Talk about Chess960 with other members. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Calvin Jack Pomerantz.
• ChessVariants.zrf. 17 variants in 1 file. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Chieftain Chess. (16x12, Cells: 192) By Joe Joyce.
• Circe Progressive Chess. Combination of Circe and Progressive Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Circe Progressive Chess. The usual way in which Circe chess is played today. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Roberto Gravino.
• Circe Progressive Chess. Progressive variant where captured pieces return to their original square. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Roberto Gravino.
• Circe Vulcanici. Progressive Circe chess, units returning as in the non-progressive game, waiting if needed until the square becomes available. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Roberto Gravino.
• Colorboundmost and Nearly Colorboundmost Chess. Games with all pieces either completely or almost completely colorbound. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Conditional Chess. In addition to a normal move, a player states a move that is executed if a certain condition holds. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joćo Pedro Neto.
• Conquest ®. A popular board game, designed and marketed by Donald Benge. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Donald Benge.
• Cost Progressive Chess. Pieces cost varing amounts of movement points to move, and each turn you get more movement points to move them with. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Sergey Sirotkin.

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• Dimension X. (8x8x2, Cells: 128) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Diplomatic Chess. The Diplomat replaces the King. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Samuel Carey. Inventor: Samuel Carey and Derrick Fernandez.
• Double Hammer Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Double Move Chess #1. Move twice per turn, win by capture not checkmate. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Fred Galvin.
• Double Move Chess #2. Move twice per turn, win by capture not checkmate, check or mate ends turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Double Move Chess #3. Move twice per turn with the same piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Doublemove chess. Move twice per turn, with by King capture, not checkmate. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Alessandro Castelli. Inventor: Fred Galvin.
• Doublestep Chess and Doubletime Chess . All pieces may move twice when moving. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Young-Hyun Joo. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Doublestep Chess and Doubletime Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Dr. Who Chess. Variant based on the popular TV seiries. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Calvin Jack Pomerantz.

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• Echo Chess I. If possible, make a second move with a matching unit. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Echo Chess II. If possible, make a second move with a matching unit. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Enemy Progressive chess. Make one normal move and an increasing number of moves with enemy pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
• English Progressive Chess. White moves once, black twice, white three times, etc. Series ends when a check is given. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Alessandro Castelli.
• English Progressive Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Extra Move Chess. Double-move variant based on limitations of Zillions of Games. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Extra Move Chess. Move twice per turn with Extra Move Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Extra Move Chess ZRF . Double-move variant based on limitations of Zillions of Games. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.

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• Fetch Chess. Double-move game where the Cat (who may be a 3rd player) may or may not fetch your pawns back. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Fibonacci Chess. Players can make multiple moves per turn, the number determined by the fast growing Fibonacci sequence. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: David Bradley.
• Four-Fold Chess. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Larry L. Smith.
• Four-Handed Elephant Chess. A 4-Player (2 Team) game based on 3-Elephant Chess and 4-handed chess. (11x11, Cells: 97) By Gary K. Gifford.
• French Revolution Chess . Advanced pawns threaten the noble pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Marek14 . Inventor: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• French revolution chess. Advanced pawns threaten the noble pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Hans L. Bodlaender.
• French Revolution Chess. Short game with your pawns facing the enemy. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• FTM Chess: Follow the Mover. After a normal move, you may move a piece to the vacated square. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Alessandro Castelli. Inventor: Gianluca Vecchi.

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• Ganeshan Chess. Introducing a new Elephant piece known as (the) Ganapati. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Simon E Jepps.
• Greek Progressive. Make at most one move more than your opponent in his last turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Kostas Prentos.
• Greek Progressive Chess. Make at most one move more than your opponent in his last turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Kostas Prentos.

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• Hermit Chess. Play vs opponent making increasing numbers of random moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
• Hexagonal Hole Chess. A hexagonal variant of Hole Chess. Engineers can move holes and barriers. Teleporters can relocate enemy pieces. (11x11, Cells: 100) By Gary K. Gifford.
• High Chess. An attempt to solve all the traditional flaws of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Luis Bolańos Mures.
• Hop Chess. The same as FIDE chess plus a special piece called the hopper. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joćo Pedro Neto.

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• Italian Progressive Chess. White moves once, black two times, white three times, etc. Check is only allowed at last move of series. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Alessandro Castelli.
• Italian Progressive Chess. White moves once, black two times, white three times, etc. Check is only allowed at last move of series. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Italian Progressive Chess. Problem based on an actual game position. (8x8, Cells: 64)

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• Kansas Progressive Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• King's progressive chess. Players may make a number of moves in a turn, depending on row where king is on. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Sergey Sirotkin.
• 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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• Leandro's Chess. You can move any number of units one time each per turn, providing. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
• Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Leandros Chess . You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Limited Doublemove Chess. Several variants on Doublemove Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• LiQi. Very Strong Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
• LiQi . Very Strong Chss. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.

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• March Hare Chess. Each side moves first a black unit, then a white unit. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Marseillais Chess. Move twice per turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Marseillais Chess. Move twice per turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Antoine Fourričre.
• Medieval War Chess. This game has quite a few differences from regular chess, but it does use the standard board and pieces, making it easy to play. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Anthony Peterson.
• Michelson's Chess. Each side moves first a red unit, then a white unit. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Moderate Progressive Chess. A player may make one more move than his opponent just made. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Moderate Progressive Chess. A player may move one more piece than his opponent just moved. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Monkey Do Chess. If possible, make a second move with any unit. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ed Friedlander.
• Multimove Chess. Players spend points to make multiple moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
• Multimove FIDE Chess. Each turn utilizes a number of points that get applied to movement. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Howe.
• Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Variant where you can only checkmate or be checkmated on move 10, 20, 30, ect.. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Calvin Jack Pomerantz.
• Multiple of 10 Checkmate. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Calvin Jack Pomerantz.

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• New Types of Progressive Chess. Several new progressive chess variants. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• No Limit Bet Chess. A gambling multi-move chess variant played with dice that allows players to place bets on each move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Daniel.

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• One or Two. Make a normal move, or denote two pieces for which your opponent chooses how they must be moved. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.

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• P.O.C.: Progressive 007 Chess. Which pieces one moves are determined by throwing dice. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Bill Taylor.
• Pawntrooper chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Karl Prosser.
• Portugese Progressive Chess. Progressive chess variant where you move each piece at most once. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joćo Pedro Neto.
• Progressive 007 Chess. Players play increasing numbers of moves each turn, but which color you move simply alternates. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Progressive Absorption Chess. Very popular in Italy. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Progressive Chess . An online guide to Progressive Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Doug Hyatt.
• Progressive Chess. Several variants where white moves one time, black twice, white three times, etc. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Alessandro Castelli.
• Progressive Chess . A collection of variants with increasing numbers of moves each turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Young-Hyun Joo.
• Progressive Chess, Italian. Problem based on an actual game position. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Progressive Fischer Random Chess Contest 1998. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Progressive Forwards Chess. Progressive chess where pieces may only move forwards. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Progressive Give-Away Chess. Giveaway chess played in progressive fashion. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Andrea Mori.
• Progressive Mutation Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Promotion progressive chess. Progressive chess variant where a piece `promotes' when it takes. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fabio Forzoni.

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• Quest-Chess. Players make 10 moves per turn but opponents get chance to react on checks and taking of pieces in between. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Donald Benge.

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• Random Move Number Chess. A die now controls the number of moves a player makes each turn. Luck and skill required to win! (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Daniel.
• Realm chess. Board is divided into realms and multiple pieces can move into and out of a realm in one turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Edward Jackman.
• Rolling Kings . Kings must move along a predetermined path. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Peter Aronson.
• Rolling Kings. Kings must move along a predetermined path. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Peter Aronson.
• Rook's Revenge. Astraware Brings Rook's Revenge to Palm OS and Pocket PC Handhelds. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Russian progressive chess. Progressive chess variants where one occasionally moves a piece of the opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Sergey Sirotkin.

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• Scotch Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Scottish Progressive Chess. White moves one time, black twice, white three times, etc. Series ends when check is given. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Alessandro Castelli.
• Simple Marseillais Chess . Simplified version of Marseillais Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Skock. 64 pieces on an 8 x 8 board. Dice determine how far pieces can be moved. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ulf Göransson.

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• Triplet Chess. Each turn, move a king, a pawn, and another piece; win when opponent cannot. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Adam Sobey.
• Triplets. Move in one turn a pawn, the king, and another piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Doug Chatham. Inventor: Adam Sobey.
• Triplets. Move in one turn a pawn, the king, and another piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Adam Sobey.
• Twinmove Chess (uncompelled). Double move variant where a pawn can, optionally, be moved first. (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Twinmove-Chess (compulsory). Double move variant where a pawn must be moved first. (This is like a pistol held to your head.). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.

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• Verve. A real-time, hidden information, chess variant for playing online! (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Potter.

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• The Water Buffalo Game. Everybody's got a water buffalo! (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jared B. McComb.
• White and Black Chess. Move each turn a piece from a white and a piece from a black square. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
• Wild Kingdom Chess. (8x11, Cells: 88) By Nicholas Jay Wolff.

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