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• ChessV Universal Chess Program. Open source universal Chess program with a graphical user-interface. Author: Greg Strong.
• SMIRF. Program that plays various 8x10 chess variants. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Reinhard Scharnagl.

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• AlterWay. Shareware program. Find a sequence of moves taking all black pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Aleksey Bartashnikov.

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• BlindChess. A blindfold program (optional board), good for training (DOS freeware). (8x8, Cells: 64) By M Winther.
• Blindfold. Shareware program. Visualize and remember a sequence of chess positions. By Aleksey Bartashnikov.
• Bookie Chess. An online game generator which combines chess and gambling. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tyler Wong.
• Brutalis . A program that helps to solve helpmates, with options for composing. Author: Jens Baek Nielsen.

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• Capablanca Chess program. A DOS program for Capablanca's chess, based upon GNU chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: William Angel. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
• Chaturanga. Computer game that plays Chaturanga and many other variations. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Chess 2000. A program that plays Chess 2000. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Gijsbert Wiesenekker. Inventor: Gerhard Josten.
• Chess Mazes. Shareware program. Find a route for a piece that does not use an attacked square. By Aleksey Bartashnikov.
• Chess Miner. Shareware program. Add mines to undermine all black pieces. By Aleksey Bartashnikov.
• Chess3D. A program for building 3D chess boards. (8x8x8, Cells: 512) Author: Per Trygve Myhrer.
• Chessbrain Software . Link to website of company making shareware chess puzzle programs.
• Chesshousers. A review. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• ChessMaker. A simple program for creating Chess diagrams. Author: Mark Alexander.
• ChessV Universal Chess Program. Open source universal Chess program with a graphical user-interface. Author: Greg Strong.
• Color Chess. Freeware program playing variant on 36 colored squares. (6x6, Cells: 36) By Maarten Bodlaender.

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• Dabbaba. Freeware program playing chess and a number of chess variants. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Jens Baek Nielsen. Inventor: Jens Baek Nielsen.
• Discochess. Distributed Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Marc A. Donis.

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• Edmarks' Strategy Challenges II Program. On their Website, you can download a demo that allows you to play the Jungle game against a human opponent on a PC. (7x9, Cells: 63)

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• Fairy Forsythe Edwards Notation and ffen2htm. A tool to make webpages with chess variant diagrams. Author: Andy Kurnia.
• Fairy-Max. Free open source chess variant software. (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
• Fairy-Max. (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
• ffen2htm . A tool to make webpages with chess variant diagrams. Author: Andy Kurnia.
• FischerRandom Program . Generates random starting positions. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Nicklas Johansson.
• Fog of War Chess. Players can only see certain squares. Plays on a computer application. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: William Lee Sims. Inventor: Cameron Hendricks.

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• Giveaway Chess Puzzle. Computer game that you have to lose all of your own pieces to win. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.

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• Hexagonal Boards . Java Utility. By Graeme C Neatham.
• Hexodus. Program that plays hexagonal chess (Glinski variant). Author: Grzegorz Sidorowicz.
• HiddenLynx. A beautiful, user-friendly, Windows program for Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Mikko Oksalahti.

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• Interactive 3D Chess Program. (8x8x8, Cells: 512) By Dan Beyer.

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• Keeps and Moats Chess. Computer Game -- beta test demo. (Cells: 145) By Matt Worden.
• KnightSweeper . Single player game similar to the Minesweeper computer game. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Michiel de Bondt.
• Kriegspiel Referee. Program that serves as a Kriegspiel referee. (8x8x3, Cells: 192) Author: Mac . Inventor: Henry Michael Temple.

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• Laser Chess. Shoot lasers in chess variant from computer program. Author: Peter Venable. Inventor: Mike Duppong.
• Last Move. Shareware program. Add a king to make a mate position. By Aleksey Bartashnikov.

M

• Maniac . Chess and Chess Variants Program. By Subrah Nagappan.
• Metagame Game-Playing Workbench. Information on tool for game programs. Author: Barney Pell and Daniel Elliott Loeb.

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• NetBlitz Chess Program. Plays bughouse. Author: Sébastien Lachance and Yannick Létourneau.
• Nuclear Chess . Program that plays Nuclear Chess on Linux or Mac OS X. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Harald Bartel. Inventor: Jason Shields.

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• Peter Chatterton's Gess Applet . Link to applet and program that play the game of Gess. (18x18, Cells: 324) Author: Peter Chatterton. Inventor: Archimedeans Mathematics Society.

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• Qianhong. Chinese Chess for Windows. (9x10, Cells: 90) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jeremy Craner.

R

• Review: Chesshousers. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Zillions-of-Games. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Review: Zillions-of-Games. Author: David Howe.

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• Scatha. Simple open-source hexagonal chess playing engine. Author: Tord Romstad.
• On ShareDebate International. Online BBS magazine, and software for chinese chess, Korean chess, and for making sets for these games. Author: Roleigh Martin.
• ShatraDev2 . Windows program to play Shatra against the computer. (7x14, Cells: 62) Author: Francis Monkman.
• Shocky. A program that plays Shogi. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Pauli Misikangas.
• Shogi Programs. Links to different programs that play Shogi. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Moshe Rapaport.
• Shogi Software. Shogi Software. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Terrance Davis.
• Shogi Variant Software . Index of shogi variant software (in Japanese). Author: Edward Strickland.
• Sjeng : a chess-and-variants playing program . Freeware program that plays chess and some variants, like giveaway chess and bughouse. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• SMIRF. Program that plays various 8x10 chess variants. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Reinhard Scharnagl.
• Sneaky. A WinBoard Compatible Chess Engine that plays Cheapmate Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Gary Baydo. Inventor: Robert Price.
• The Sons of Mithra . Computer program for playing fantasy variant. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Michael Chang Gummelt. Inventor: Michael Chang Gummelt and Holly Gummelt.
• SphereChess . Downloadable files to play a spherical chess variant. () By Lukas A. Saul.

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• Thai Chess Program . Freeware program that plays Thai Chess (Makruk). (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Thai Chess v1.0. Freeware program that plays Thai Chess. (Link.). (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Steve Evans.
• Tommy's Towers. Description (no rules) of very large chess variant from DOS-program. (50x20, Cells: 1000)
• Tommy's Toys. Has available a shareware program that plays the Jungle Game. (7x9, Cells: 63)

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• Uncle Wang Chinese Chess . Link to website of commercial program that plays Xiangqi.

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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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• WinBoard_F. a GUI that supports Chess Variants. Author: H. G. Muller.
• Wise Board Editor . Interactive online chessboard. Author: Michal Ryszard Wojcik and Michal Stanislaw Wojcik.

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• XieXie . Xiangqi Computer Program XieXieMaster 1.0.10 released! (9x10, Cells: 90) Author: Pascal Tang. Inventor: Pascal Tang and Eugenio Castillo.

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• Zillions of Games. Game package for Windows that allows you to play nearly any abstract board game or puzzle in the world.
• Zillions of Games. It can play an endless variety of abstract board games, and we have a large collection of Chess variants you can play on it. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler.
• Zillions-of-Games. Review. Author: David Howe.
• Zillions-of-Games. Review. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.

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