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• Cagliostro's Chess. Variant on 12 by 8 board with combination pieces. (12x8, Cells: 96) Author: John Ayer and Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Savio Cagliostro.
• Cagliostro's Chess. Savio Cagliostro of Okeechobee Florida invented this variant in latter quarter of 20th c. Adds extra cardinal and amazon to capa. (12x8, Cells: 96) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Savio Cagliostro.
• Cai Qi. Chesslike game on circular board. (Cells: 89) Inventor: Patrick Hassel Zein.
• Caïssa. On a 7 by 7 board with disappearing squares. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Christian Freeling.
• Caïssa. Christian Freeling's game with a royal queen. (7x7, Cells: 49) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
• Caïssa Britannia. Play this British-themed game with royal Queens plus Lions, Unicorns, and Dragons. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Fergus Duniho.
• Caïssa Britannia. British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Fergus Duniho.
• Calculation of Piece Values . Link to an essay on attack values, material values, relative piece values. Author: Derek Nalls.
• Caliph. compound of Bishop and Camel. Author: Charles Gilman. Inventor: Mark Hedden and Charles Gilman.
• Caliph Qi. Extension of Isis with compound colourbound pieces and overlapping royal-accessible areas. (6x9) By Charles Gilman.
• Calorie Chess. Pieces have a limited amount of calories to move with, and have resorted to cannibalism! (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
• Cambaluc Chinese Chess Photos. A commercially produced Chinese Chess set with Staunton pieces. (9x10, Cells: 90) Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Camblam. On a 12x12 board with archers, catapults and other enhanced pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Michael Asher.
• Cambodian Chess . Mysterious 9x9 "Cambodian" Chess game that seems unknown in Cambodia. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Ivan Derzhanski.
• Cambodian Chess. Historic 9x9 game. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Camel. Makes (1,3)-jump. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Camel and Rhino Chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board with new pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Camel and Rhino Chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board with new pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Camelrider Chess. P. Aronson's big-board variant with regular pieces and Camelriders. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: M Winther. Inventor: Peter Aronson.
• Canadian Chess. Captured units are replaced immediately. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Canadian Chess II. Queens are replaced as rooks, rooks as bishops, etc. Pawns are not. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Canadian Progressive Chess. Usually Canadian Chess is played progressively. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Cancellation Rules. Capturing results in left-over pieces based on the difference in point values of the two pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeff Zeitlin.
• Cannibal Chess. Pieces get the powers of a piece they take. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Michiel de Bondt.
• Cannibal Chess . Pieces get the powers of a piece they take. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Marek14 .
• Cannon. Moves like rook, but must jump when taking. Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Cannon Chess . Played on a 9x9 Shogi board, feature various types of 'Cannon' pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Steve Evans. Inventor: Peter Michaelsen.
• Cannon Chess. Rooks and Bishops move and capture after the style of Chinese cannons. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Cannon Shogi . Played on a 9x9 Shogi board, feature various types of 'Cannon' pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Steve Evans. Inventor: Peter Michaelsen.
• Cannon Shogi and Cannon Chess. Played on a 9x9 Shogi board, feature various types of 'Cannon' pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Peter Michaelsen.
• Cannonless Xiang Qi variants. A look at stronger variations of pre-cannon Xiangqi. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Gilman.
• Cannono. Pieces move by bifurcation, but capture normally. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
• Cannonrider Chess. The Cannonrider moves differently depending on square colour: on white squares as a Nightrider; else as a Chinese Cannon. (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Cannons and Crabs. Small board, cannons (alibaba-guards) and some centralized crabs (sergeant pawns) - promotion only to cardinal or marshall... (7x6, Cells: 42) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
• Cannons and Crabs . A variant on a 7x6 board with Crabs (improved Pawns), and Cannons (leapers). (7x6, Cells: 42) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: David Short.
• Cannons and Crabs. A variant on a 7x6 board with Crabs (improved Pawns), and Cannons (leapers). (7x6, Cells: 42) By David Short.
• Cannons of Chesstonia . Cannons launch a Pawn, Wazir, Ferz and Stone to increase strategical and tactical play. (12x8, Cells: 80) Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Cannons of Chesstonia. Cannons on the sides of the board can "fire" new pieces into the game. (8x12, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Cannons of Chesstonia. Cannons launch a Pawn, Wazir, Ferz and Stone to increase strategical and tactical play. (12x8, Cells: 80) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Canoness Chess. Chess with Cannons and Canonesses (Vaos) on a differently-shaped board. (10x10, Cells: 88) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Canonical Chess Variants. A family of chess variants that blends Xiang Qi and Western Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Tony Paletta.
• Canonical Chess Variants . A family of chess variants that blends Xiang Qi and Western Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Tony Paletta.
• Canonness Chess. Chess with Cannons and Canonesses (Vaos) on a differently shaped board. (10x10, Cells: 88) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Canopus . Most pieces movements are range-limited. The game play is violent and tense, but fluid. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Roberto Lavieri.
• Canopus. Most pieces movements are range-limited. The game play is violent and tense, but fluid. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Roberto Lavieri.
• Canvasser. Compound of Rook and Camel. By Charles Gilman.
• Canyon Chess. Small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules. (8x8, Cells: 44) By Andrew Blechinger and Jarry Vega.
• Canyon Chess. Play this small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules! (8x8, Cells: 44) Author: Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Andrew Blechinger and Jarry Vega.
• Capablanca Chess. 8x10 board variant by the grandmaster. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Capablanca Chess 10x10. 10x10 board variant by the grandmaster. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Capablanca Chess program. A DOS program for Capablanca's chess, based upon GNU chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: William Angel. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Reinhard Scharnagl.
• Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Reinhard Scharnagl.
• Capablanca Relocation Chess. The Capablanca piece array can in one move be rearranged, creating 144 different board positions (with zrf). (10x8, Cells: 80) By M Winther.
• Capablanca Shatranj. Capablanca Chess with Chancellor and Archbishop replaced by Shatranj type pieces. (8x10, Cells: 80) By Christine Bagley-Jones.
• Capablanca Shatranj. Where Cardinal and Marshall are replaced by their moderate short range leaper counterparts. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.
• Capablanca Shatranj. Capablanca Chess with Chancellor and Archbishop replaced by Shatranj type pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Christine Bagley-Jones.
• Capablanca's Chess. Play Capablanca's Chess on the Play-by-Mail system! (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Capablanca's chess . Version using Alfaerie graphics. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: David Howe. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Capablanca's chess. An enlarged chess variant, proposed by Capablanca. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and David Howe. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Capablanca's Chess Photographs. Pictures of a set based on Capablanca's 8x10 variant. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Capapranka Chess. A cap renders a square and any occupant non-functional. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Capped Pawn Chess. White must checkmate with a move of the KBP or lose. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Capricorn Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
• Captain Spalding Chess. Find an Elephant in your Pajamas. By Ralph Betza.
• Captain Spalding Chess . Find an Elephant in your Pajamas. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Capture the Flag Chess. As in the kids' tag game. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: João Pedro Neto.
• Capture the Flag Chess. A translation of the classic children's game to a 42-square board. (7x6, Cells: 42) By Thomas Cameron.
• Capture the Scepter. Checkmate the king or capture the scepter located on opposing king's home square. Features extra-mobile sliding pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Daniel.
• Capture-the-flag Chess . A translation of the classic children's game to a 42-square board. (7x6, Cells: 42) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Thomas Cameron.
• Capturing Progressive Chess. Scotch Chess, but if no capture is made the count drops back to one. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Card Bet Chess. Betting chess with cards telling you which moves are OK. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Card Chess. Cards determine which player makes a move. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• CARDCHESS. Utilizes the two key elements of card games: four suits and the ability to place cards face down to hide their values. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: David Howe. Inventor: Jeff Widderrich.
• CardChess for Four. Utilizes the two key elements of card games: four suits and the ability to place cards face down to hide their values. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jeff Widderrich.
• CardChess for Teams. Utilizes the two key elements of card games: four suits and the ability to place cards face down to hide their values. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jeff Widderrich.
• CardChess for Three. Utilizes the two key elements of card games: four suits and the ability to place cards face down to hide their values. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jeff Widderrich.
• CardChess for Two. Utilizes the two key elements of card games: four suits and the ability to place cards face down to hide their values. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jeff Widderrich.
• Cardinal. Moves as bishop or as knight. Author: Fergus Duniho and David Howe.
• Cardinal Chess. Just like orthodox Western "Mad Queen" Chess only substituting knight-bishop compound for Mad Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Vitya Makov.
• Cardinal Chess. Just like the usual Western contemporary, only replacing Mad Queen with Bishop Knight compound. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Vitya Makov.
• Cardinal Super Chess Home Page. Link to company site. (10x10, Cells: 100) Inventor: Maureen Jones.
• Cardinals Super Chess and Super Checkers. Photographs of set. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Cardmate. Chess variant on board with 100 squares, inspired by card games. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Ivan Derzhanski.
• Cardmate . Chess variant on board with 100 squares, inspired by card games. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Ivan Derzhanski.
• Carnage. Featuring the Terror Freeze, Detonator and the Dragon that attack the enemy in 4 different ways. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
• Carnage. Combines Rococo type gameplay with Chess on a large board with augmented knights and ninja pawn drops. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
• Carnage . Features new pieces that attack by detonation, withdrawal, approach, and immobilization. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
• Carnival of the Animals. A nearly-FIDE variant with Eurofighter Pawns (first implementation on an 8x8 board) dice (two aside for preference) which mutate. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
• Carnivore Chess. Each turn, also move an uncapturable predator. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Carpenter. compound of Knight and Dabbaba. Author: Charles Gilman.
• Carrera Chess. 10x8 version described in 1617. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: D. Pietro Carrera.
• Carrera's Chess. Large chess variant from 17th century Italy. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Eric Greenwood. Inventor: D. Pietro Carrera.
• Cascudo. On 44-square hexagonal board with turns consisting of cascade of moves. (Cells: 44) By David Jagger.
• Cassandra Chess. Prophesy the doom of opposing pieces two turns in advance to capture them. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Castalia Chess. Introducing the Castalia, which moves like a queen but cannot capture. Instead it can magnetically dislocate pieces (zrf exists). (10x8, Cells: 68) By M Winther.
• Castle Chess . White must prevent black from castling. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
• CastleChess. White must prevent black from castling. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Éric Angelini.
• Castling in Chess 960. New castling rules for Fischer Random Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Kipling Lewis.
• Castlingmost Chess. All movement in this variant is a form of castling. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Cataclysm. Large board variant with exciting, strategical play, and many powerful short-range pieces. (16x12, Cells: 192) By Greg Strong.
• Cataclysm. Large board game with short-range pieces designed to be dramatic without being overly complicated or dragging on too long. (12x16, Cells: 192) By Greg Strong.
• Catapults of Troy . Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses! (8x11, Cells: 88) Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses! (8x11, Cells: 88) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses! (8x11, Cells: 88) Author: Gary K. Gifford and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Catastrophic 8x8 Chess. Mathematician Missoum gives a new type of chessboard. By A Missoum.
• Cavalier. Piece from RennChess that steps one diagonally then slides orthogonally, or steps one orthogonally then slides diagonally. Author: Ben Good. Inventor: Eric Greenwood.
• Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalier Chess . All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalier Chess Photographs. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalier Zillions Saved Game . Download this file to see this game played in the Multivariant Play by E-Mail Tournament. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Michael Nelson. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalier Zillions Saved Game . Download this file to see this game played in the Multivariant Play by E-Mail Tournament. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Tony Quintanilla and Peter Aronson. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalry Chess. Enhanced moves for all pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Frank Maus.
• Cavalry Chess . A once popular variant from the 1920's where every piece has additional jumping moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Frank Maus.
• Cavalry Chess. All pieces have additional knight move except knights which get camel + zebra moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Frank Maus.
• Cavalry Chess. A once popular variant from the 1920's where every piece has additional jumping moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Frank Maus.
• Cavewars CSIPGS Chess. Three dimensional chess variant based on Cavewars game. By Ralph Betza.
• Cazaux Chess. Some chess variants invented by Jean-Louis Cazaux, along with some others. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Cazaux, Jean-Louis . Books by Jean-Louis Cazaux. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Cazaux, Jean-Louis. An interview. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux and Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Cazaux, Jean-Louis. Website of Jean-Louis Cazaux. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.

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