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• Los Alamos variant. Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Losing Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Antoine Fourričre.

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• L Shaped Chess. 2 player variant with some elements of 4-player ones. (7x7, Cells: 45) By Charles Gilman.
• Lùotuoqí (Camel Chess). Fun contest: Help us create a new chess variant by committee. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Glenn Overby II.
• Lùotuoqí: Nominations. The list of official nominations for the variant-by-committee. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Glenn Overby II. Inventor: Various.
• L'univers des Echecs. Rules and background on a number of variations of chess. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Ladder Chess. Non-competing 40 Square contest entry with scaling board. (5x8, Cells: 40) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
• Ladder Chess . Chess variant on a `skewed' board with 40 squares. (Cells: 40) Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
• Ladder Chess. Chess variant on a `skewed' board with 40 squares. (Cells: 40) By Sergey Sirotkin.
• Ladder Shogi. Shogi variant on 10 by 10 board where pieces climb the social ladder by multiple promotions. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Mason Green.
• Ladon Chess. Introducing the Ladon, a short-range piece that can repel any other piece, and also capture this way (zrf available). (10x8, Cells: 68) By M Winther.
• Ladorean Chess. Another 10 x 8 Fergus Duniho variant with marshall and cardinal. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
• Ladorean Chess - Shaco Ladorean. Variation on Capablanca's Chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Bernhard U. Hermes. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
• Lag Chess. The last move made by your opponent is not known to you. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Lambeth Conference. Bishops bounce off the walls. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Adam Sobey.
• Lance. Moves one or more squares straight forward. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Lancelot. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Stan Druben.
• LancerChess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Glenn Nicholls.
• LancerChess (or LeopardChess). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Glenn Nicholls.
• Lao Tzu Chess. www.schemingmind.com. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Kipling Lewis.
• Laquear Chess. Introducing the Laquear, that captures like a bishop, but moves by the collision method (zrf available). (10x8, Cells: 68) By M Winther.
• Large Chess ZRF . ZRF for Capablanca's Chess plus variants: Bird's, Aberg's, Grotesque, Univers, Embassy, Janus, Archbishop, New Chancellor + more. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Large Nahbi Chess. Preset for Large Nahbi Chess. (10x12, Cells: 120) By Uri Bruck.
• Large Nahbi Chess. (10x12, Cells: 120) By Uri Bruck.
• Large Variant 99 Contest Index Page.
• Large Variants in the Historic North European Style. () By Charles Gilman.
• Larger Wildeurasian variants. increasing the 2+2+1 piece groups from three to five or six. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
• Las Vegas Fun Chess. Special chess dice determine what piece to move. Author: Edward D. Collins. Inventor: George Koltanowski.
• Las Vegas Fun Chess. Game with dice. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: George Koltanowski.
• Laser Chess. Shoot lasers in chess variant from computer program. Author: Peter Venable. Inventor: Mike Duppong.
• The Last Mourning. On board with 38 squares and Jesters. (Cells: 38) By Lester Jones.
• Last Move. Shareware program. Add a king to make a mate position. By Aleksey Bartashnikov.
• Last Rook Chess. King and last remaining rook are both royal. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Tony Paletta.
• Latrunculi duo milia et septum. Chess with rook/ferz & bishop/wazir substitutes for rooks and bishops. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Leap Chess . Game with manditory captures and other Checkers-like elements on a board of 44 squares. (6x8, Cells: 44) By Ken Franklin.
• Leap Chess. Game with mandatory captures and other Checkers-like elements on a board of 44 squares. (6x8, Cells: 44) By Ken Franklin.
• Leapale. 3d variant played on a 6x6x6 board. (6x6x6, Cells: 216) By Charles Gilman.
• Leapers Chess. Decimal variant with additional leaping abilities for each of the pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Larry L. Smith.
• Leapers Chess. Played upon a 10x10 field with all the pieces having leaping capability. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Larry L. Smith.
• Leapers chess. a game with many leapers. (8x6, Cells: 44) By Andy Maxson.
• Leapers Creeepers. Decimal variant with many leaping pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Christine Bagley-Jones.
• Leapers Creeepers. Featuring compound long leapers of giraffes, zebras and camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.
• Leapfrog Chess. The pawn can leap over any man in its initial two-step move (with zrf). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Leaping/Missing Bat Chess. Large variant on a 16x12 board with many fairy pieces. (16x12, Cells: 192) By John Savard.
• Legan's Chess. Normal set and board, different setup and pawn moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: L. Legan.
• Legan's Chess . Normal set and board, different setup and pawn moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Marek14 . Inventor: L. Legan.
• Legan's Fortress Chess . On an `I` shaped board. (8x10, Cells: 64) Author: Marek14 . Inventor: L. Legan.
• Legler's Chess. Modest 1926 variant using an Archbishop and a Chancellor. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: John Ayer. Inventor: Hugo Legler.
• Legler's Chess . Modest 1926 variant using an Archbishop and a Chancellor. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Hugo Legler.
• Leko, Peter. An interview about a Fischer Random Chess match. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Lemurian Shatranj. Lemurian pieces which utilize either or both types of their possible moves, possibly changing direction after the first. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joe Joyce.
• Lemurian Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joe Joyce.
• Lene Hau Chess. Pieces take several turns for doing one move, going only one square per turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Lengthleaper Hex Chess. The hex-prism geometry has surprisingly many equal-length compound leapers. (6x9x4, Cells: 136) By Charles Gilman.
• Leo. Moves on queen lines, but must jump once when taking.
• Leo Chess. The Queen is replaced by a Leo, which must leap over a screen to capture. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Leto Chess. Introducing the Leto, a doubly telekinetic piece, very versatile (with zrf). (10x8, Cells: 68) By M Winther.
• Letter Chess. Pieces are a diagram that shows a letter and their movement capabilities. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Ed Pegg Jr..
• Levantine Chess. One unit is immune to capture if it is not attacking. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Levitating Kings. Kings can levitate orthagonally or diagonally over a line of friendly pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Li, David. Interview with the author about his books on Kriegspiel. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Liars Chess. You may lie about the move you have made. Author: Fabio Forzoni. Inventor: Alessandro Castelli.
• Lias's Proposal. Pawns may move, but not capture, one square sideways. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: A. G. Lias.
• Lichen Chess. Pieces are modular, and each piece may contain fragments belonging to both players. By Alexandre Muńiz.
• Life, the Universe and Everything . 42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction. (6x7, Cells: 42) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Joćo Pedro Neto.
• Life, the Universe and Everything. 42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction. (6x7, Cells: 42) By Joćo Pedro Neto.
• Lilliputian Monochromatic Alice Chess . All pieces are colorbound, and switch boards rather than switching color. (6x7x2, Cells: 84) By Peter Aronson.
• Lilliputian Monochromatic Alice Chess. All pieces are colorbound, and switch boards rather than switching color. (6x7x2, Cells: 84) By Peter Aronson.
• Limited Doublemove Chess. Several variants on Doublemove Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Limited Ranged Guards Chess. A game with some limited queens/guards and tanks to shoot opponent. (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Limited Square Chess. A form of Chess with a Limited Supply of Squares; entry of the 38-challenge. (8x8, Cells: 38) By Ralph Betza.
• Limiting Chess. On a 4x8 board, with the objective of capturing all the opponent's pieces. (8x4, Cells: 32) By Sergey Sirotkin.
• Lion. Powerful piece from Shogi variant.
• Lion (2). Moves on queen-lines but must jump exactly one piece. Appears in fairy chess problems.
• Lion (Murray). Jumps two orthogonally or diagonally or captures on neighboring square.
• Lion Chess. Queen, rook and bishops are cannons that must leap in order to capture. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
• Lions and Dragons Chess. Hexagonal variant. Dragons carry a ball to the goal while Wizards avoid capture. (Cells: 84) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Lions and Dragons Chess . Download this file to see this sample game. (Cells: 84) Author: Peter Aronson and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
• Lions and Dragons Chess . Hexagonal variant. Dragons carry a ball to the goal while Wizards avoid capture. (Cells: 84) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Lions and Unicorns Chess. Play this large Chess variant with Lions and Unicorns. (10x8, Cells: 64) Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: David Paulowich.
• Lions and Unicorns Chess. With the 16 standard pieces and 4 powerful leapers. (10x8, Cells: 80) By David Paulowich.
• LiQi . Very Strong Chss. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
• LiQi. Very Strong Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
• List of Chess Variants. This is a large listing of chess variants. Author: Sam Trenholme.
• List of fairy pieces. A long list of fairy piece name and sources. Author: Frank Truelove.
• A List of Novelty Pieces. Lists unusual pieces with move descriptions. Author: Wayne VanWeerthuizen.
• Litróf. Variant on 42 squares played with stacks of Icehouse pyramids, where different color pyramids give stacks different powers. (5x8, Cells: 42) By Glenn Overby II.
• Little Cheops. Large variant with extra rules governing game play. (9x9, Cells: 81) By B. Gregory Johnson.
• Little Cheops. (9x89, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Little Dragon Chess. Modern small variant of Xiangqi on board of 41 squares. (5x7, Cells: 41) By Peter Aronson.
• Little Dragon Chess . Modern small variant of Xiangqi on board of 41 squares. (5x7, Cells: 41) By Peter Aronson.
• Little Great Chess. Chess on an 8 by 8 board with lots of new pieces, and rules like prisoner exchanges, throne ascensions, reinforcements. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Terry H. Jones.
• Little River Chess. 46 Cell game with Chinese Chess influence. Kings confined to palaces. (6x9, Cells: 46) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Little River Chess. A 46 square variant based loosely on Chinese Chess. (6x9, Cells: 46) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Little Trio. Small variant combining Chess, Shogi, and Xiang-Qi. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Jared B. McComb.
• Little Trio. (7x7, Cells: 64) Author: Nicholas Jay Wolff. Inventor: Jared B. McComb.
• Liu Yang. Hexagonal analogue to Yang Qi. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
• Locust. Jumps over opposing pieces on Queen lines to capture. Author: Peter Aronson.
• Logic Mazes. Robert Abbott's Webpages. Author: Robert Abbott.
• Logical Follow-Up to Duke of Rutland Chess. The Duke of Rutland invented a game with a rook-ferz piece and marshall: Why did he not add other logical compounds? (8x14, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Claudio Martins Jaguaribe and Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Logis 3D. 3d-chess variant by R. Planesi. (Link.). Inventor: Ronald D. Planesi.
• The Lonely Wolf . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Long Leaper. Moves as queen, but takes by leaping. Author: Ben Good. Inventor: Robert Abbott.
• Long Yang. Applying the Nearlydouble principle to a variant with Cannons. (11x16, Cells: 176) By Charles Gilman.
• Long-King Shogi. Long-king moves very far but don't let it get captured. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Longshanks Chess. (12x12, Cells: 84) By Jonathan H Rutherford.
• Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. (7x7, Cells: 49) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
• Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Christian Freeling.
• Los Alamos Chess. Used for the first computer chess program. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Los Alamos Chess . Chess on a 6x6 board. (6x6, Cells: 36) Author: David Howe.
• Los Alamos Chess. First known variant played by a computer. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!) Author: Jason Shields.
• Los Alamos Extinction Chess With Bunkers. On 6 by 6 board with two additional 2 by 2 bunkers, and extension chess rules. (6x6x2, Cells: 44) By Doug Chatham.
• Los Alamos Extinction Chess with Bunkers . On 6 by 6 board with two additional bunkers, and extension chess rules. (6x6x2, Cells: 44) By Doug Chatham.
• Los Alamos variant. Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Los Alamos Vierschach. Four player variant of small variant Los Alamos Chess. (10x10, Cells: 84) By Jörg Knappen.
• Losing Chess. Captures are mandatory, object is to be unable to move. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Losing Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Antoine Fourričre.
• Losing Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Antoine Fourričre.
• Losing Chess II. Captures are mandatory, stalemate draws. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Losing Chess III. Captures are mandatory; checkmating or having bare. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Losing Chess IV. Captures are mandatory, being checkmated or having bare. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Losing Sphinx Chess. Losing chess in four dimensions. (4x4x9, Cells: 144) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
• The Lotus Board. Notation and Directional Concepts. By David Moeser.
• Lotus Boards. Configurations for Future Chess Variant Contests. (Cells: 41) By David Moeser.
• Lotus chess: Chess Pieces in the Lotus Environment. With information on additional pieces. By David Moeser.
• Lotus chess: Chess Pieces in the Lotus Environment. By David Moeser.
• Lotus Chess: the Book. A hardcopy printout of the four main files dealing with Lotus Chess. Author: David Moeser.
• Lotus-39. Chess variant on special shaped board with 39 squares. (Cells: 39) By David Moeser.
• Lotus-39 Chess: An Introduction. By David Moeser.
• Lubny Chess. 100 cell chess variant invented in 1972. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Volodymyr Mezhenskyj.
• Lucky Xiangqi. All the pieces, except the kings, are turned over so you can't see what they are. (9x10, Cells: 90) Author: Stephen Leary.
• Ludus Chessunculus. Game played on Hexagonal board with non-standard pieces. (Cells: 61) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: John Cleaveland.
• Ludus Equitum. Dice chess variant, using standard set and two dice, designed in a 13th-century style for the SCA. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Glenn Overby II.
• Ludus Magus . (8x8x2, Cells: 145) By Larry L. Smith.
• Ludus Magus. (8x8x2, Cells: 145) By Larry L. Smith.
• Lumberjack. Pieces move depending on the column they are on. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Bruce Zimov.
• Lumberjack. Pieces move according to their current column. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Bruce Zimov.
• Lumberjack . Pieces move depending on the column they are on. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Robert Price. Inventor: Bruce Zimov.
• Lłotuoqķ (Camel Chess) . Chess variant designed by committee. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Various.

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