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• Re. Drop pieces on a 5 by 5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Reiner Knizia.
• Ready Chess. Play this game, where pieces cannot capture right after capturing, they have to be restored first! (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Ready Chess . Pieces cannot capture right after capturing, they have to be restored first. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Ready Chess. Pieces cannot capture right after capturing, they have to be restored first. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Quintanilla.
• Real chess. Players start with placing their major pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: E. I. Csaszar.
• RealChess.com . A site to play FIDE Chess by e-mail, beholderboard or by web. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Reality check. Remember the opposite site of flippable pieces. (Cells: 39) By Andrew Juell.
• 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.
• Rebel Chess . King's Pawn is replaced by Recruiter piece that moves like an Alfil and can change a piece's side. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Chris Schumacher.
• Rebel Chess. King's Pawn is replaced by Recruiter piece that moves like an Alfil and can change a piece's side. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Chris Schumacher.
• Rebel Fury . (12x12, Cells: 144) By Larry L. Smith.
• Rebel Fury. A Variation of V.R. Parton's Royal Fury. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Larry L. Smith.
• Rebellion chess. Besides normal moves, you can move a piece of the opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Recapitulative Chess. Variant where the Queen, Rook and Bishop have their older moves until promoted. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
• Recaptureless Chess. A unit which has just captured is itself invulnerable to capture for the move. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Recognized Chess Variant: Magnetic Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Joćo Pedro Neto and Claude Chaunier.
• Recognized Chess Variants. Index page listing the variants we feel are most significant. (Recognized!)
• Recognized Variants of the Month . Game Pak I. (Recognized!)
• Record Chess. Try to reach a position in as little moves as possible. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Ralph Schuler.
• Recruiter Chess. Capturer recruits on adjacent squares. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Rectahex Chesss. A chess variant that looks like hexagonal chess but can be played on a normal chess board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Rectangular Cubic Chess. Experimental variant on 3d shaped board. (x6, Cells: 72) By Robert J. Bell.
• Recycle Chess. Players can capture and drop their own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Robert Huber.
• Recycle Chess. You may capture your own units and replace them on the board. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Red Castle Chess. Red king and QR cannot move except to castle, which wins for Red. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Reduced Endgame Chess. Two kings and six pawns are used for practicing endgames. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe.
• Reduced Endgame Chess . Two kings and six pawns are used for practicing endgames. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
• Reenterent Chess. There is one additional square where taken pieces can wait to reenter 5 by 8 main area. (5x8, Cells: 41) By Edward Lovett.
• Reenterent Chess . There is one additional square where taken pieces can wait to reenter 5 by 8 main area. (5x8, Cells: 41) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Edward Lovett.
• Reenterent Chess - prototype board. (5x8, Cells: 41) By Edward Lovett.
• Reflecting Bishop. Moves as a Bishop, but can also reflect off of multiple sides of the board. Author: Peter Aronson.
• Reflex Chess. Force your opponent to mate you. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: William Geary.
• Reflex Chess. Force your opponent to checkmate. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Reform chess. Book on chess on smaller boards with many training positions. Author: Laszlo Polgar.
• Reform Chess I. Load your own units. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Reform Chess II. King and Queen Pawns are special. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Reformed Chess. Pawn can swap with an enemy piece located on the last rank, except king. Thusly, many more won endgames (zrf available). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Reformed Chess. Introducing a new pawn swapping capability intended to solve the problem of drawishness in chess (with zrf). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Refreshing Bubble Fizz Chess. When a piece moves, he can create a bubble. Pieces in bubbles cannot move for three turns, but may make two non-capturing moves. By Ralph Betza.
• Refusal Chess. Refuse your opponent to make certain moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Fred Galvin.
• Refusal chess. A problem. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: C. H. O'D. Alexander.
• Refusal Chess. You may refuse one enemy move per turn. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Fred Galvin.
• Refuse Once Chess. You may refuse one enemy move per game. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Regement Random Chess. Pieces are relocated to create a modest setup that most chessplayers will feel at home in (+ zrf). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Regenbogen . Unusual spectrum-based game with Wizards, Clerics and Spirits. (Cells: 44) Author: Joost Aan de Brugh. Inventor: Jared B. McComb.
• Regenbogen. Unusual spectrum-based game with Wizards, Clerics and Spirits. (Cells: 44) By Jared B. McComb.
• Regimental Chess . Commercial variant. Groups of pieces can form battalions and regiments and move at the same time. (36x16, Cells: 576)
• Regulator Chess . Game on a 35 square board with a 7 square track on which a piece moves that determines how Knights and Bishops can move. (6x7, Cells: 42) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Samuel H. Bell.
• Regulator Chess. Game on a 35 square board with a 7 square track on which a piece moves that determines how Knights and Bishops can move. (6x7, Cells: 42) By Samuel H. Bell.
• Relative Lumberjack. Pieces move the same as other pieces in its file. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
• Relativistic Chess. Squares attacked by the opponent are considered not to exist. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Robert Price. Inventor: Kevin Whyte.
• Relativistic Chess. Squares attacked by the opponent are considered not to exist. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Kevin Whyte.
• Reldoub. Game with river, relays, walls, and fractions. (11x11, Cells: 121) By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Relocation Chess. A remarkably easy method of rearranging the standard array of pieces (with zrf). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Relocation Chess. Swap a pair of your own pieces before you begin. With Fischer Random castling rules. (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• The Remarkable Rookies. A team for Chess with Different Armies with Rook-like pieces. By Ralph Betza.
• A Remarkable Rookies Game. A sample game featuring the Remarkable Rookies vs the Fabulous FIDEs. By Ralph Betza.
• Remote Sensing. 2 remote sensor pieces per side can mimic pieces on their current square color. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Remote Sensing. 2 remote sensor pieces per side can mimic pieces on their current square color. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Remote Sensing 8 x 8. An 8 x 8 version of Remote Sensing. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Remote Sensing with On & Off-Board Detection. Special pieces mimic others, some on-board, some which have been captured. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Remote Sensing with On & Off-Board Detection. Special pieces mimic others, some on-board, some which have been captured. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Renezan's Chess . Proprietary game, Bi Triad, 1993. Inspired by Wildebeest Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Yu Ren Dong.
• Renezans Chess. Proprietary game, 9x9, in which the occupant of the center. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Rennaissance Chess II. (12x10, Cells: 120) By Matthew La Vallee.
• Renniassance Chess. Also referred to as Rennchess, this is a famous, decades-old Tamerlane inspired variant. (12x10, Cells: 120) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Eric Greenwood.
• Renniassance Chess. With 68 pieces on board of 12 by 12. (12x10, Cells: 120) By Eric Greenwood.
• Renniassance Chess . Game played on several sizes of large board with 68 pieces per side. (12x10, Cells: 120) Author: Edward Holzman. Inventor: Eric Greenwood.
• Rental Chess. You must pay rent for the squares where your pieces are: centre squares are more expensive. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
• Repatriation Chess. Pairs of captured units are returned to the board. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Repeating Chess. Usually called Replacement Chess. Captured pieces must be put on an empty square on the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Report on 41-square Chess Variant Competition. Author: David B. Pritchard.
• Reserve Chess. Units may be removed from the board and dropped back in later. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Results of finals voting of the 10-contest. Who won the contest celebrating 10 years of this website? Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Retiar Chess. Introducing the Retiar, a bifurcating bounce-slider, on an H-board (zrf available). (8x10, Cells: 68) By M Winther.
• Retreating Chess. Pieces must fall back one square after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Retrochess. Play chess from the end of the game backwards. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joćo Pedro Neto and Ralph Betza.
• The Retrograde Analysis Corner . Website with much information on retrograde chess problems.
• Rettah. Different setup and powerfull king. Taking obligatory when in check. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Vu Q Vo. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
• Rettah Chess. King can move as any piece but must capture its attacker. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Revelation Chess. The object is to obtain four knights of your color on the board. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Reverse Symmetry. By Jose Carrillo.
• Reversi Chess. Pieces closed in on a line can be converted to the other side. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Terry H. Jones.
• Reverso Chess. White king and queen are reversed in the initial position. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Review: 3 Man Chess. (Cells: 144) Author: David Howe.
• Review: 303 Tactical Chess Puzzles. Book of Fred Wilson and Bruce Alberston to train chess combination skills. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Chessapeak Challenge Classic. (Cells: 160) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: J. Bruce Jones.
• Review: Chesshousers. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Author: Philip M. Cohen.
• Review: Guide des echecs exotiques & insolites. Author: K. B.A. Bodlaender.
• Review: Heraldic Chess. A review of Modest Solans' game Heraldic Chess. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Modest Solans.
• Review: HEXchess. (Cells: 127) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Knightmare Chess. Author: Steffan O'Sullivan.
• Review: McCooey's Hexagonal Chess. (Cells: 91) Author: Tim O'Lena. Inventor: Dave McCooey.
• Review: Meta-Chess. Author: Serge Kohl.
• Review: Meta-Chess. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: New Rules for Classic Games. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Noble Celts. (Cells: 64) Author: Ben Good.
• Review: Omega Chess. (10x10, Cells: 104) Author: Ben Good. Inventor: Daniel Macdonald.
• Review: Omega Chess. (10x10, Cells: 104) Author: David Howe. Inventor: Daniel Macdonald.
• Review: Omega Chess. (10x10, Cells: 104) Author: Alex Sherzer. Inventor: Daniel Macdonald.
• Review: Omnigon. Photos and Review. (Cells: 37) Author: Ben Good. Inventor: Mike Flynn.
• Review: Popular Chess Variants. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Roundtable Chess. Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Review: Sammy Seahorse Teaches Chess. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: White and Black from Brown - A Selection of 168 Diagrams. Author: Ben Good.
• Review: Winning Chess - Tactics and Strategies. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Winning Chess Piece by Piece. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Zillions-of-Games. Author: David Howe.
• Review: Zillions-of-Games. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Revised Chess. The pawn can also capture forwards if positioned on 7th rank. Thus, many more won endgames (zrf included). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Revolver Practice: A Chess Problem. White mates in 21 moves on board in shape of revolver. (Cells: 12) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: T. R. Dawson.
• Rex . Six Direction Chess. (Cells: 85) By Arnaldo Rodrigues D’Almeida.
• REX Hexagonal Chess. Six Direction Chess. (Cells: 85) By Arnaldo Rodrigues D’Almeida.

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