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The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants

Computer resources

• Chess Variant Programs.
• Online Games. Applets, servers, etc.
• Chess fonts and Chess DTP.
• Others.

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• 3D Chess 4 Cubed. Three dimensional chess on 4 by 4 by 4 board. (Link.)

A

• Alterway. Description of program with chess related puzzles.
• Amazons. Shareware program playing Amazons. By Michael Keller.
• Ambush. Shareware program based on medieval Rithmomachia game. (Link.)

B

• Battista: a program to help you when playing Italian Progressive Chess.
• Blindfold: chess training program. Information on program with links to evalutation copies.
• Brutalis. A program that helps to solve helpmates, with options for composing. Zip-file. By Jens Baek Nielsen.

C

• GNU Capablanca's chess: Zip-file. A modification of GNU chess that plays Capablanca's chess (10 by 8 board). Description of the program.
• Chess 121. Large chess variant with Demo Dos-program.
• Chess 2000. Link to site where you can download a freeware program that plays the chess variant Chess 2000, and some other programs.
• Chessbrain Software. The Chess Intelligence series: five programs giving puzzles based on chess. (Link.)
• Chess Mazes. Description of chess puzzle program, with links to evalutions copies.
• Chess Miner. Description of chess puzzle program, where you must place mines on the routes of chess pieces.
• Chesshousers: Review. Review of a commercial computer game program.
• Chess Variant Construction Kit. Windows utility that allows people to play chess variants via email. By Jim Wickson.
• Color Chess. Chess variant on board with 39 squares with five different colors. Game with (beta) freeware computer program playing it. By Maarten Bodlaender.
• Crazy Chess. Shareware program playing Giveaway or Losing Chess. Description by programs author Aleksey Bartashnikov.

D

• Dabbaba: a program playing chess and several chess variants. Program of Jens Baek Nielsen. Freeware.
  • Description of program.
  • Download the program. Last version: November 1998.
  • A Nightrider game, played by Dabbaba. By Jens Baek Nielsen.
• Dlyouk Janggi: dlyouk-janggi.html Program that plays this Korean Chess Variant. (Link.)
• Detective Chess. Puzzle game, based on chess.
• Download the program. Updated version: August 11, 1998.
• Description of program.
• Doubles Chess. Link to site where you can download a program to play Doubles Chess on a computer.
• Gary Gygax page on Dragonchess. With a downloadable program. (Link.)

E

F

• FischeRandom Chess Generator. Generates random starting positions for FischeRandom Chess.
• Future Chess. Three dimensional chess variant shareware program.
• Innovast Software: FutureChess. Link to site of company that made the program.
• The program. (Zip file to download.)

G

• Gess - a cross variant between go and chess.
• PC program playing Gess.
• Peter Chatterton's Gess Applet. (Link.)
• Peter Chatterton's Gess Program. (Link.)
• Gess applet. Applet that allows to play Gess against another person at the same screen. (Link.)
• Giveaway Wizard, version 2.05. Shareware program, playing giveaway chess.
• Grand Chess Program. A commercial program to play Grand Chess. (Link.)
  • The program.
  • Review of the program.

H

• Hexichess. 3D hexagonal Chess. (Link.)
• Hexodus. Link to a site where you can download a freeware program called Hexodus that plays hex chess.

I

• Insane. Pieces change to random type when they move.

J

• Janggidosa -- Korean Chess Playing Program: link2.dir/janggidosa.html.
• Joust. Knight jump and take away the squares the other player can jump to.
  • Download the program.
  • Description of the program.

K

• King's Dimension. 3D chess variant from prototype Macintosh program. (Link.)

L

• Laser Chess - a program for playing this chess variant.
• Download the program.
• Description of Laser Chess.
• Laser Chess. Link to website on Laser Chess, with programs, rules, and history of this game.
• LaserChess DX (Link.)
• Last Move. Description of program with chess related puzzles.

M

• Maniac: Chess and Chess Variants Program (Link.)
• Makruk. Thai chess program, written by Chassuna Pin-Ngoen. (Link to zip-file.)

N

• N3D-CH (3D-Chess playing program). Freeware program playing Raumschach (3d chess). (Link.)
• NARF! (Link) A Windows application that allows you to define and play your own board games. Shareware by Gabriel Mendosa.
• Net Blitz Program for Windows 95/98/NT what can play Bughouse chess variant using Internet connection. By Sebastien Lachance and Yannick Letourneau.
• NERO and other variants. A freeware chess program with a small variant on a 5 by 5 board, and Diana, and Los Alamos chess. Made by Jari Huikari. You can download these variants:
  • Nero. Version 5.
  • Nero, older version.
  • Half Chess.
  • Los Alamos Chess.
• New Chess. Demo program to play several variants on the web. (Link.)
• N-Knights. Try to put as many or few knights on a chess board. Freeware program. (Link.)
• N-Queens. Try to put as many or few queens on a chess board. Freeware program. (Link.)

O

• Omega Chess Program. Freeware program playing Omega Chess. (In Java. Link.)

P

• Play Chess Variants by email!. Fergus Duniho has written a simple but extremely flexible system for playing just about any chess variant via email!

Q

R

• Reflector Chess - a program playing this chess variant.
  • Reflector chess - first link. The program seems to be gone at this site.
• Rival Chess. Chris Moreton's chess program that plays Kinglet, Give-away chess, and Shatranj. Recommended! (Link.)

S

• Shakti. Program playing Shakti chess variant on a Macintosh. (Link.)
• Shogi.
  • Sekita. Shareware shogi program. (Link.) Recommended by Steve Evans.
  • Shocky. Info on Shogi program, also playing Micro-Shogi, Mini-Shogi, Judkin's Shogi, Tori Shogi, and Chess.
  • Shogi software, by Roger Hare. (Link.)
  • Shogi Variant Program. Home page of a freeware program, that allows humans to play shogi and 14 variants of shogi, and has a computer opponent playing several of the variants, up to Wa Shogi on an 11 by 11 board. (Link.)
  • Shogi Software. Phil Holland's page with links to Shogi software, including his program Shogi Variants 4.1.
  • GNU Shogi. Shogi program (for Unix?) (Link, seems to be down.)
• Sir Bombalot. Shareware program playing Bombalot. (Link.)
• ShatraDev. A Windows program (95/98/NT) that plays Shatra. Program written by Francis Monkman.
• Small Chess Several small chess variants programs by Jari Huikari, including Diana, Los Alamos Chess and Half Chess (link).
• Solo Chess.
• Speedchess: Small variant playable online (Link.)

T

• Tactrix - chess variant on Amiga: Directory containing file. Short description of game and program. (Link, seems to be down.)
• Thai Chess v1.0. Freeware program that plays Thai Chess. (Link.)
• Tommy's Towers. Very large chess variant that can be played with a DOS-program by two humans
• Tommy's Toys. Several chess variant shareware DOS-programs. (Link.)

U

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X

• Xiangqi - Chinese Chess programs.
• Information on Chinese Chess programs from the FAQ.
• Peter Sung's page on Chinese Chess Software. (Link.)
• Internet Xiang Qi Software. Free program, allowing playing Xiangqi over the Internet. (Link.)
• Software for Xiangqi. List of several Xiangqi programs, mostly for playing on the Internet. (Link.)
• Uncle Wang Chinese Chess. Home page of a commercial Xiangqi program. (Link.)
• VSCCP - Very Simple Chinese Chess Program. Freeware Xiangqi program. (Link.)
• Xiangqidiag. A javascript tool to make Xiangqi diagrams on webpages. By Hans Bodlaender.

Y

Z

• Zillions-of-Games. Homepage of program playing hundreds of games, including many chess variants and user definable games. (Link.)
• Zillions-of-Games Chess Variants. Page on the Chess Variant Pages with a review of Zillions-of-Games and downloadable ZRF-files.

Misc

• Information on software for Chinese and Korean chess and programs to make sets for these games.

Online Games

• Chess Variant Applets. A large collection of applets, playing different chess variants. By Ed Friedlander. (Link.)
• Play Banchi. Link to site where you can play Banchi, a Xiangqi variant against a Java program.
• Bishops. Play 4-player chess variant online.
• Duchess. For 2, 3, 4 or 6 players on a rose-shaped board. (Link.)
• Exotic Chess Applet. Applet that allows to play many chess variants. (Link.)
• Go-Chess (tm) (Link.)
• ICCS. Internet Chinese Chess Server. (Link.)
• ItsYourTurn.com. Website that allows turn based playing of chess and two variants. (Link.)
• Internet Chess Servers. List of many Internet Chess Servers. (Link.)
• Java Chess Playing Application (Link.)
• Kriegspiel on the Internet Chess Server.
• Andy Kurnia's pbm server. Information about email server helping to play chess and some chess variants online.
• MEWIS: Internet Chess Server dedicated to chess variants. Play upside-down chess, bughouse; fisher random chess, atomic chess, and several other chess variants. (Link.)
• midi Games. Webserver that allows to play many games, including many chess variants. (Link.)
• Pixelpusher: play chess variants against a java applet.
• Play Chess Variants by email!. Fergus Duniho has written a simple but extremely flexible system for playing just about any chess variant via email!
• Räuberschach / Robberchess. Play Giveaway Chess on 6 by 6 board against the computer online. (Link.)
• Chess for three players. Server for 3-player chess. (Link.)
• Torus and Klein Bottle Games (Link.)
• World Chess Network (Link.)
• Club Xiangqi. Play Xiangqi online, and find more info on the game. (Link.)

Chess fonts and Chess DTP

• Chess font index page.
• Chess Variant Graphics index page.
• FFEN and FFEN-to-HTML. Extension of Forsythe Edwards Notation for chess variants, and program converting FFEN-setups to html code.
• ffen2diag. A Javascript tool to include chess (variant) diagrams on webpages.
• Chess Assistant Light. Freeware for publishing chess diagrams. (Link.)
• Chess Captor. Shareware program for making chess-board pictures on a PC. (Link.)
• Online PGN Viewer (Link.)
• A True Type chess font.
• shat2diag. A Javascript tool to include uncheckered chess variant (e.g., Shatranj) diagrams on webpages.
• WebChess Designer. Shareware program to make chess diagrams for the WWW. (Link.)
• xiangqidiag: a Javascript tool to put Xiangqi diagrams on webpages.

• Endgame analysis. A computer analysis of endgames with fantasy chess pieces. By Dave McCooey.
• Luminous Chess. Mac computer program that can be used for playing chess or Grand Chess by two people. (Link.)
• The Chess Variant Pages Offline Download many of the files at the same time, and read them without being connected to the Internet. Alpha release.
• Knightstour program. Program that solves the famous knights tour puzzle. (Link.)
• Pegasus Chess. Add-on for Pegasus email program for playing chess. (Link.)

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