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Modest Proposals. An Introduction to Modest variants.
2Choice Chess. You can tell opponent which pieces he can move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
65 Square Chess. FIDE chess but pretend there's another square smack dab in the middle.
- 6hess. Each piece moves 6 times before disappearing.
Accelerated Chess. Two non-capturing moves, or one capturing move, each turn.
- Accelerated Chess. White makes one move at first and then each player makes either a capturing move or two non-capturing moves.
- Adjutant Chess. Regular chess with extended castling, and extra corner squares. Makes new strategies possible (+zrf).
- Advance Chess. Pawns begin on third and sixth ranks.
- Ajax Orthodox Chess. Orthodox Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers.
Almost chess. One queen has combined rook and knight moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Alpaca Chess
. Introducing the weak but interesting Alpaca, which hops one or two steps rookwise (with zrf).
- Alpaca Chess. An Alpaca, worth two pawns, is added to the standard piece context (with zrf).
- Amazon Chess. Well known old variant with amazons instead of Queens in FIDE Chess.
- Ambiguous Chess. A modest variant, similar to Refusal Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Antimatter Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Arrangement Chess. The players take turns to relocate the king and the queen, thus enhancing opening ramification (with zrf).
- Arrangement Chess. Swap king & queen before play begins. With mirrored kings and non-mirrored queens (with zrf).
- Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description
- Blackjack Chess. Reduce the point value of your pieces to exactly 21 points and win the game. Or do it the old-fashioned way.
- Bland Chess. Chess with no diagonal moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Blue Chip Chess. Fun variant where each turn you get to create an off-limits square for your opponent .
Booster Chess 
. Pawns push friendly pieces.
- Braves' Chess. Solves the problem of draws in chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Brickchucking Chess. Pieces cannot move backwards, but do give check/mate backwards.
- Brickchucking Chess. Pieces can only move forward, but attack the king in any direction.
- Capped Pawns (Bemützte Bauern). Pawns have a double step once in their career.
- 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)
- Capture-the-King. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Castle Chess. As Fide-chess, but with extended castle: the king may jump three squares (with zrf).
- Castle Chess . White must prevent black from castling.
- CastleChess. White must prevent black from castling. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Castling in Chess 960. New castling rules for Fischer Random Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Centaur Chess . All pieces except Pawns move backwards as Knights.
- Centaur Chess. Pieces move backwards as Knight. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Centaur Chess. All pieces except Pawns move backwards as a Knight.
- Center of Attention. FIDE Chess but with an additional winning condition: Move your king unchecked into a center square.
- Center of Attention. In addition to regular rules, win by moving your King to a center square. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Center of Attention Chess. In addition to regular rules, win by moving your King to a center square.
- CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns.
- CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Cheapmate Chess . Mate your opponent with an illegal move.
- Check Force Chess. The player giving check decides how the opponent escapes.
- Checker-capture Chess. Pieces can capture as in checkers game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Chess 25 (Fischer Placement Chess). Swap king and/or queen before play begins. Follows FRC rules (with zrf).
- Chess with Extended Castle. Standard chess with extended castle rule, effectuating greater opening variance (with zrf).
- Chess with Extra Bishops. FIDE Chess with Extra Pair of Bishops that Start from Same Square.
- Chess with Quantum Bishops. Bishops move orthogonally along both paths and end up where a normal bishop would end up. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Chess100. Piece positions are modestly randomized according to Arrangement Chess rules, castling is retained (+ zrf).
- Chess400. Piece setup is randomized according to Configuration Chess rules, producing 400 modest, mostly non-mirrored, positions (+ zrf).
- Chess484. Before play, certain pieces are regrouped, creating natural positions. Castling is retained (+ zrf).
- Chess64. The piece array is moderately randomized according to Relocation Chess rules, castling is retained.
- Chess960.com. Talk about Chess960 with other members.
- ChessVariants.zrf. 17 variants in 1 file.
- Claustrophobia Chess. game is lost if King has no space to move.
- Combo Modern Day Chess. Guard replaces the Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Commando Pawn Chess . Once a Pawn crosses the midpoint of the board, it moves like a Berolina Pawn.
- Communist Chess. When you capture an opponent's piece, you must destroy one of your own pieces of the same type. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Configuration Chess. King and queen swap with other pieces before play begins - enormous variety! (with zrf).
- Configuration Chess. Some pieces are rearranged before play begins, thus enhancing opening ramification (with zrf).
- Connected Chess. Pieces are removed when they are no longer adjacent to any other piece.
- Contramatic Chess. This king can walk right into check! The goal for this king is to get checkmated.
- Corridor Chess. FIDE but subtracting rook pawns and setting pieces up in house in middle.
- Cotati Chess. Promotion of a Pawn wins the game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Crab Chess (Chess4). Blocked flank pawns are have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf).
- Cripple Chess. The king may move only to capture.
- Crown Prince Chess. Missing description
- Crown Prince Chess. One Knight on each side is replaced by a Crown Prince. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Crushed Chess. After every 10 turns, the perimeter disappears.
- Czech Chess. Drop pawns by checking the King. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Davis Variation of Suicide Chess. Win by checkmate or by loosing your pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Decisive Chess. Chess, but replacing draw rules with win/loss rules.
Denver Chess Club Chigorin Chess Tournament. I'm sponsoring my first local chess variants tournament.
- Deployment. The initial setup of the pieces is open but hidden from the other player. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Diagonal pawn chess. Pawns always move diagonally, whether capturing or not.
- The Disguised King. Unknown pawn becomes royal piece. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Disguised King I. A secret royal pawn must be protected.
- Disguised King II. Win by capturing the secret royal pawn.
- Displacement Chess 2. Chess with flexible castling, reverse symmetry and no opening theory.
- Displacement Chess 2 . Chess with minor modifications and no opening theory!
- Displacement Chess 2. The most logical step for the evolution of standard Chess: flexible castling and interchange of king and queen for one side. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Don't Cross Midnight. Chess on a rotating planet; units may not cross the International.
- Douglas Modern chess. A chess variant with a more interesting start position, leading to more action.
- Dragonet Chess. The Dragonet flies to any square queenwise, captures piece behind landing square (with zrf).
- Drawless Chess. Simple rules are added to make draws impossible. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Drawless Chess . Simple rules are added to make draws impossible.
- Duluth Chess. 5 minor changes to Western chess that can affect all stages of the game.
- Duluth chess. 5 minor changes to Western Chess that can affect all stages of the game.
- Duplication Chess. Twice per game, move a piece with duplication. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Dynamo Chess. Preset for Dynamo Chess.
- echess. (Micro) Evolutionary CHESS game.
- Enep. An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Erosion Chess. Units erode after eight moves.
- Exhausted King. Win by giving permanent check. . (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Extended Queenside Castling. Orthochess, but Queenside castling is possible with a piece at d1 or b1, also called Madchess.
- Extrapawn Chess. Standard chess with one extra pawn per player in the reserve (with zrf).
- Feebback Chess . Variant where pieces are "feeble backwards" -- backwards moves can not capture.
- Fifty-fifty chess. Mating is allowed after having taken eight pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- File Sharing Chess. File Sharing, pawn swapping, always passed pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Five-stars chess. One can also win by having five pieces in a row. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf).
- Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces are external and can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf).
- Flexible Chinese Chess (F-Xiangqi). Xiangqi variant where the horses are initially external (with zrf).
- Fluid Chess. A modest variation allowing movement through friendly pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Flying Bombers with Hangars. Features the flying bomber - a versatile dual range piece that captures by flying over the enemy. (8x8, Cells: 68)
- Folding Magnetic Chess. fold between D&E files, play on both sides.
- Football Chess. Pieces interact with a ball and each side tries to get the ball into the opposing goal.
- Forwards Chess. A variation of FIDE Chess where pieces only move forward. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Ghast knights. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Ghostrider Chess.. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Gilman's Modest Variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Grand Alamos Chess. FIDE, but with an initial setup reminiscent of Grand Chess.
- Gustavian Adjutant Chess. Standard chess with empty extra corner squares and extended castling (with zrf).
- Hecatomb promotion. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- High Chess. Drawn games are instead won by the player whose King is closest to the centre.
- Hoppel-Poppel. Modest divergent variant where Knights capture like Bishops and Bishops capture like Knights. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Hoppel-Poppel Chess. Bshops capture as Knights and Knights as Bishops.
- Ibu Ibu Chess. Introduces the concept of a King's entourage, making King powerful and protected. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Incognito Chess. In addition to the King, one Pawn is secretly royal.
Kick the King. What happens if we remove check and stalemate rules and win by taking the king?
- Kingmaker Chess. The first pawn to reach the opposite rank promotes to the enemy king.
- Kings. Kings on the Game Courier.
- Kings. A modest variant with more than one king. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Knight-Riding Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Knightmate-Relay Chess . Played with a royal-knight and special movement rules for pieces a knight's move away.
- Landing force shogi. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81)
- Latrumcolorum Chess. Piece caught between two opponent pieces is moved by him. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Legler's Chess . Modest 1926 variant using an Archbishop and a Chancellor.
- Legler's Chess. Modest 1926 variant using an Archbishop and a Chancellor. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Leo Chess. The Queen is replaced by a Leo, which must leap over a screen to capture.
- Levitating Kings. Kings can levitate orthagonally or diagonally over a line of friendly pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Madness of Kings Chess. The Kings are, simply put, insane!! (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Magic Carpet Chess. Each player has a magic carpet to move a non-King to any empty square on the board.
- Magician's Chess. Pieces switch board sides with each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Magicpawns Chess. Any piece can move to friendly pawn and change place with it. Pawns thus become more dynamic and pieces less constrained.
- MiniXiangqi. S. Kusumoto's MiniXiangqi - Chinese Chess on a 7x7 board (with zrf).
- Moderate Progressive Chess. A player may move one more piece than his opponent just moved.
- Moderate Progressive Chess. A player may make one more move than his opponent just made. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Modest Proposals. An Introduction to Modest variants.
- Modest Proposals - Various Authors. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Modest Variant.. Black may castle out of check. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Mrs. Graycheck's Chess. Pawns promote only to a unit already captured.
- Multimove FIDE Chess. Each turn utilizes a number of points that get applied to movement.
- Multiple Formations. A proposal to add a set of formations to Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Variant where you can only checkmate or be checkmated on move 10, 20, 30, ect..
- Near Chess. This is a variant of Skirmish Chess designed to be friendlier to newbies. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Near Chess Preset. This is the preset for Near Chess.
- Near vs Normal Chess. This version pits pieces of Near Chess vs those of normal chess (FIDE). (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Neoteric Chess. Pieces are swapped before play begins. An external piece is introduced (with zrf).
- Ninjutsu (Claustrophobia 2). The fierce double capture leaping pieces: the Ninja Warriors and the Ninja Guards can promote to Insane Ninja Knights! (8x5, Cells: 46)
- No Limit Bet Chess. A gambling multi-move chess variant played with dice that allows players to place bets on each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Nonary Chess. King or queen are optionally swapped with a bishop before play begins (with zrf).
- Null chess. Capture squares are destroyed when vacated.
- OK Chess . After the first move, Pawns can advance any distance.
- Option-Suicide Chess. You can optionally destroy your own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Palace Ninja Guards. A pair of short-range diagonal leapers and four extra squares are added to the standard chessboard and pieces. (8x8, Cells: 68)
- Palace Ninja Guards . A pair of short-range diagonal leapers and four extra squares are added to the standard chessboard and pieces.
- Palace Ninja Guards. A pair of short-range diagonal leapers and four extra squares are added to the standard chessboard and pieces.
- Paletta's Modest ARRAY variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Paletta's Modest CAPTURE RULE variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Paletta's Modest GOAL variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Paletta's Modest MOVEMENT RULE variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Paletta's Modest PAWN variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Paletta's Modest PIECE variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Paletta's Modest TURN variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Pawn Chess. Pawns promote to first piece captured by opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Pawn Pusher Chess . Pawns can not move by themselves on a player's side of the board, they must be pushed by other pieces.
- Pawntrooper chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Peasant Revolt. Modest variant with unequal setup.
- Peasant Revolt. Modest variant with unequal setup. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Perier Chess. Introducing the Perier Cannon in a Western piece context (with zrf).
- Perimeter Chess . Pieces other than Pawns and Kings move differently when moving to or from edge squares.
- Phantom Chess. Undefended pieces become "phantoms". (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Pierre Menard's Chess Variant. As described by Jorge Luis Borges.
- Pilgrim Chess. A new method of introducing an extra piece to the standard board (with zrf).
- Pillow Chess
. Chess on a Pillow-shaped board.
- Pink Chess. White has two Kings, black two Queens as royal pieces.
- Pioneer Chess. A new method of introducing an external piece on the orthodox board (with zrf).
- Pioneers Chess. An elegant solution to draws in chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Placement Chess. King and queen are swapped before play begins, generating FRC subset (with zrf).
- Placement Chess. King and queen are swapped with another piece, except rook, and creating a new mirrored position (with zrf).
- Placement Random Chess (Chess 20). The piece setup is randomized following Placement Chess rules, generating 20 modest Fischer Random positions.
Plutonian Test Chess. Fictitious Variant for Testing Purposes.
- Pretentious Chess. All Pieces can move as and demote to a Knight. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Pretentious Chess. Pieces can move as and demote to a Knight.
- Proximity Chess. Players must move pieces nearest to the arrival square of the last piece moved. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Pyrrhus Chess. The Pyrrhus moves like a king but paralyzes enemy pieces at queen's distance (with zrf).
- Queen of the Night Chess. An over powered game on the Standard Board.
- Racing Kings. Missing description
- Random Transposal Chess. Use dice to swap pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Recaptureless Chess. A unit which has just captured is itself invulnerable to capture for the move.
- Reformed Chess. Pawn can swap with an enemy piece located on the last rank, except king. Thusly, many more won endgames (zrf available).
- Regement Random Chess. Pieces are relocated to create a modest setup that most chessplayers will feel at home in (+ zrf).
- Regiment Chess. Black determines king position, white can swap the queen before play begins (with zrf).
- Relocation Chess. Swap a pair of your own pieces before you begin. With Fischer Random castling rules.
- Relocation Chess. A remarkably easy method of rearranging the standard array of pieces (with zrf).
- Repatriation Chess. Pairs of captured units are returned to the board.
- Retreating Chess. Pieces must fall back one square after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Revenge of the King. http://xn--perlebr-bxa.de/2010/02/Vergeltung-des-K%C3%B6nigs. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Revised Chess. A revision of Fide-chess: a pawn on the seventh rank can also capture forwards. Makes chess much less drawish (with zrf).
- Revised Chess. The pawn can also capture forwards if positioned on 7th rank. Thus, many more won endgames (zrf included).
- Rogue Pawn Chess . Pawns may double-move on any rank except for their starting rank.
- Rook Square Chess. Enemy rook squares are royal.
- Rooksquare Chess. Win by moving piece to corner at opponent's side. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Rooksquare Chess . Win by moving piece to corner at opponent's side.
- Rotating Cylinder Chess. Positions of pieces rotate one square to the right after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Rotation Chess. Every ten moves, switch sides with your opponent. How might you prepare for the demise of the pieces you are playing?
- Royal Amazon Chess. Queens are replaced by Royal Amazons. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Royal Amazon Chess . Queens are replaced by Royal Amazons.
- Royal Magician Chess. Missing description
- Royal Magician's Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Royal Magician's Chess. King and special magician piece earn the right to drop pieces when they venture out to the fourth, fifth and sixth ranks!
- Royal Pawn. Missing description
- Royal Pawn Chess. Same as FIDE Chess, except the pawns in front of the kings are royal, meaning the object is to checkmate them and not the king.
- Sai squad. A very experimental army for Chess with different armies, featuring the Sai (Bishop-Quintessence compound). (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Self Eliminator. You are allowed to take your own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Showdown Chess. No draws permitted. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- A Simple Proposal. Variant where promotion may occur on the 7th or 8th rank, and may be delayed, but only to captured pieces.
- Simplified Chess. Missing description (8x7, Cells: 56)
- Simplified chess. Simple subset of the chess rules. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Skirmish Chess. Tony Paletta Modest proposal as separate link for discussion. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Skirmish Chess . Pawns start on the 3rd and 6th ranks with no double-move, pieces on the 2nd and 7th ranks.
- Smaller Alice Chess. Missing description
- Spiral Chess. The royal pieces slide along a spiral trajectory.
- SquireKnight. Squire Knight combines Knight and Forward/Backward Pawn like moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Stalemate chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Standoff Chess. A threat to capture the opponent's King does not give check if it opens one's own King to immediate recapture. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Stationary King Chess . Kings can't move.
- Steward Chess. Kings are able to "crown" pieces, giving them extra moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Sudden Death Chess . A piece must be sacrificed after each non-capturing move.
- Sudden Death Chess. A piece must be sacrificed after each non-capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Sudden Death Chess. If you do not capture, you must remove one of your own units.
- Suicide Chess, Davis Variation. Win by checkmate or by loosing your pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Super Maharadscha. The Maharaja in Maharaja and the Sepoys is thought to be inferior: What if you added the camel move?
- Swapmate Chess. Pieces have "mates" which they can swap places with. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Swapmate Chess . Missing description
- Swedish Hopper Chess. Features the Swedish Hopper.
- Tao's Chess. Chess variant where as you move across a line, the pieces reverse roles.
- Tax Chess. King mobility affected by the placement of pawns of the same color.
- Teutonic Knight"s Chess. Played on an oblong board with rarely used pieces: The teutonic knight, the archchancellor and the crown princess. (8x10, Cells: 80)
- Threat Chess, Attackers Chess and Victims Chess. Missing description
- Throne Chess. Same game as chess, except playing King to K8 wins too, by Thronemate.
- Too Many Elephants. All pieces can move leap two squares on the diagonals like Elephants/Alfils in addition to their normal move.
- Trade Chess. Captured pieces can be dropped, with restrictions. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Trampoline Chess . Each player has a Trampoline that allows friendly pieces to make a second move.
- Trampoline Chess. Each player has a Trampoline that allows friendly pieces to make a second move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Troitzky Chess. Troitzky Chess by Paul Byway, standard pieces on irregular board (with zrf).
- Undecided Chess. Undecided Pawns can change into pieces by moving like them. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Valiant Chess. Knight pawns at the fifth rank have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf).
- Variable Chess. A light piece is first moved outside the board. From there it can be introduced at any time via an empty square (with zrf).
- Variants with Queens. Some variants, mostly dealing with queens, and mostly modest. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Vavulin Creative Chess. Before the start of the game, every player, creates up with one rule for both players, which operates the whole game.
- VERO Chess. Standard chess with a twist.
- Vortex Chess. Similar to Warp Point Chess only with "portals" that are more dynamic and split between the two players...
- Werewolf Chess. An nearly invincible, but bribable Werewolf replaces the Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Windows Chess. Windows Chess is played with usual chess equipment on a board inspired by an arch-window. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Withdrawing Chess. Any piece can withdraw from other pieces to capture them. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Wuss. Introducing the weakening Wuss piece, which must move when attacked but can not capture.
- Zabel-Schach. A modest chess variant with an alternative pawn, the Zabel pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Zip Chess . After the first move, Pawns can advance any distance.
- Zoo Chess. Capture four kinds of opposing units.
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