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1. 21st Century Chess. Missing description Author: Nick Wolff.

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1. Achernar. ACHERNAR is a mix of the game ALTAIR and Western Chess. By Roberto Lavieri.
2. Advanced wizard chess. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
3. Alekhine Chess. A 14 x 8 game expands the sides of Capablanca-esque board, adds two pairs of marshalls and cardinals and an amazon in the middle. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Michael Wortley Nolan.
4. Altair. Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor. Author: Antoine Fourrière and Roberto Lavieri. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
5. Anti-King Chess. Each player has both a King and an Anti-King to protect. Play it! Author: Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Peter Aronson.
6. Anti-King Chess II. Win by putting your opponent's Anti-King out of check. Author: Fergus Duniho and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Peter Aronson.
7. Assimilation Chess. Play this variant in which pieces assimilate the powers of captured pieces. By Fergus Duniho.
8. Asteryx Chess. Preset for variant with asteryx shaped 43-space hexagonal board. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: David Jagger.

B

1. Bachelor Kamil. Play by E-mail! Combines ideas from Bachelor Chess and Wildebeest Chess. Author: Tony Quintanilla and Charles Gilman. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
2. Big Chess. Ordinary chess pieces on an elongated 8 x 14 board with three times as many bishops and two times as many knights. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
3. Blue Chess or Deep Blue Vs. Kasparov Chess. Tribute to a famous game with three shades of blue and different options for each player to achieve a win. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
4. Blue Chip Chess. Fun variant where each turn you get to create an off-limits square for your opponent . Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Neal Turner.
5. Brand X Random Chess. Play Chess with a randomized setup. By Fergus Duniho.

C

1. Caïssa Britannia. Play this British-themed game with royal Queens plus Lions, Unicorns, and Dragons. By Fergus Duniho.
2. Cannons and Crabs. Small board, cannons (alibaba-guards) and some centralized crabs (sergeant pawns) - promotion only to cardinal or marshall... Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
3. Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses! Author: Gary K. Gifford and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
4. Chess 68. FIDE Chess with setup inspired by Omega Chess, to allow two modest new corner pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
5. Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. Play this 8x10 game with three new pieces. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: David Howe.
6. Chess on the Rainbows. Six different colors light up the board. You have to keep a piece on each color throughout... Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
7. Chessence of Jim Winslow. Movement is dictated by relation to friendly pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Winslow.
8. Complete Permutation Chess. Carrera pieces given additional falcon movement ability are added to wide 8 row board. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: George William Duke and Peter Aronson.

D

1. Deneb. Now you can play Deneb on the Play-By-Mail system! Author: Roberto Lavieri and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
2. Deneb Play-By-Mail game. Observe this game being played in the Invent and Play contest! Turn 4. Author: Roberto Lavieri and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
3. Double Diamond. Pieces start diagonally across from one another and pawns move diagonally. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
4. Dueling Archbishops. Chess game with only six cells but with a piece that morphs into four different forms. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.

E

1. Ecumenical Chess. Ecumenical Chess features three variants with camel-bishop, camel-rook knight-camel compounds. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
2. En Passant Chess of Ingo Althofer. This is just FIDE Chess, but with board contracted by one row. Try it out. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
3. Eurasian Chess. Synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess. By Fergus Duniho.

F

1. Fifo Chess. Multiple Occupier game where rule is that first one there is first one to be captured and to leave. "First In, First Out". Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.

G

1. Gigachess. With 20 different pieces on a 14 x 14 board, this is the latest in a sequence from Shako to Tamerlane II to Perfect 12. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
2. Grand Warp Point Chess. Using normal chess pieces, plus two warp points, on a 10 x 10 board where pawns can take large initial steps. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jason Shields.

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1. Half Chess of Ralph Betza. Exactly like halfling chess, only the knights are replaced by crabs, making them more compatible with half moving rider pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
2. Heroes Hexagonal Chess. Play this game from the 84-square contest on the Play-By-Mail system! By Tony Quintanilla.
3. Hex Shogi 81. A hexagonal Shogi variant on an 81-space board. By Fergus Duniho.
4. Hexes Chess. Hexes Chess now available for play on the Game Courier! Author: Mike Layfield and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Mike Layfield.
5. Hole Chess. Variant on a board of 44 squares with two holes that pieces can be dragged into. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.

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1. Imposter Chess. Play this game! Exchange captured pieces in order to move Kings in different ways. Author: Tony Quintanilla and Laila W. Stefan. Inventor: Laila W. Stefan.
2. Invasion. A military inspired Chess variant played on an 84-square board. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.

J

1. Jacks and Witches. Play this variant on 84 squares with special pieces and special squares! By Antoine Fourrière.

K

1. Kamikaze Mortal Shogi. Send your Kamikazes on suicide missions in this Shogi variant. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Fergus Duniho and Roberto Lavieri.
2. Knight Court Chess. When you take an opponent's piece, he gets to drop it back on the board. Object: Checkmate knight. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.

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1. Leapers Chess. Decimal variant with additional leaping abilities for each of the pieces. By Larry L. Smith.

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1. Mad Elephant Chess. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
2. Maxima. Play Maxima, an interesting and exiting variant of Ultima, with new elements that make Maxima more clear and dynamic. Author: Roberto Lavieri and Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
3. Mesmer Chess. Introduces a new piece, the mesmerist, which can control how opposing pieces move. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dan Troyka.
4. Mortal Chessgi. Play this Chessgi variant in which each capture decreases material. By Fergus Duniho.
5. Mortal Shogi. Play this Shogi variant in which pieces may die. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri and Fergus Duniho.

N

1. Nachtmahr. "Study game" with several different types of nightriders. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jörg Knappen.

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1. Outback Chess. Play this game with new pieces on plus-shaped board. Winner of the 84-square contest! Author: Tony Quintanilla and Timothy R. Newton. Inventor: Timothy R. Newton.

P

1. Passed Pawns Chess. Passed Pawns Chess on 8 x 8 and 10 x 10 Boards. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: George William Duke.
2. Peasant Revolt. Modest variant with unequal setup. Author: Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: George Whelan.
3. The Pit. A pit over which only one of the pieces may jump. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Daniel Roth.
4. Pocket Mutation Chess. Take one of your pieces off the board, maybe change it, keep it in reserve, and drop it on the board later. Author: Tony Quintanilla and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Michael Nelson.
5. Pompeii Chess. Small variant with piece drops, orthogonal pawn moves and one each of all the FIDE pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dan Troyka.
6. Pool Chess. Queens and Bishops bounce 90 degrees off the board edge. Author: Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Francisco Quintanilla.

Q

1. Quintessential Chess. Game introducing Quintessential knight and Leeloo (Quintessential Queen). Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jörg Knappen.

R

1. Ravioli Chess. Chess on two boards squeezed together at the edges. By Antoine Fourrière.
2. Ready Chess. Play this game, where pieces cannot capture right after capturing, they have to be restored first! By Tony Quintanilla.

S

1. Seenschach. Crooked Bishops, Reflecting Bishops, Harvesters and Hornets navigate around a giant central abyss. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jörg Knappen.
2. Shatranji. Chessgi with Shatranj pieces. By Fergus Duniho.
3. Star Pool Chess. Large variant of Makruk, with a center non-square that acts as a bridge. By Tony Quintanilla and Peter Aronson.
4. Stones and Relays. Pieces get to re-originate from neutral relay squares they attack. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
5. Storm the Ivory Tower. Play this Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess by email. By Fergus Duniho.

T

1. Take Over Chess. Jump across pieces to take them over from your opponent. Author: Tony Quintanilla and Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
2. Takeover Chess Play-By-Mail game. Examine this game played in the Invent and Play contest! Drawn. Author: Peter Aronson and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
3. TamerSpiel. Modern large chess variant with elements of historic chess variants. Author: Tony Quintanilla and Eric V. Greenwood. Inventor: Eric V. Greenwood.
4. Tandem-84. Jim Aikin's Tandem-84 on the Game Courier. Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
5. Tepuy. Play Tepuy, a territorial game, with unique setup, movement and capturing! Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
6. Thronschach. Immobilizer, knight-wazir, bishop-ferz, cardinal and two ways of winning, one by occupying "throne". Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Glenn Overby II.
7. Thunder Chess. Play this hybrid of Fusion, Assimilation, and Metamorph Chess. By Fergus Duniho.
8. Tiled Squares Chess. Play this game, where you drop tiles to create the board as you play! By Tony Quintanilla.
9. Tim's 3D Chess. On a 5x5x5 board with two kings per player. Author: Kevin Pacey. Inventor: Tim O'Lena.
10. The Toddler. Large variant with powerful pieces and an intricate net of protections. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Jean-Yves Boulay.
11. Torus Chess. Besiege Chess re-visualized, specifically as Torus Chess. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
12. Toulousain Chess. Jean-Louis Cazaux's 12 x 12 chess variant dedicated to his town of Toulouse. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
13. Tree Garden Chess. Zebras, camels, cardinals, marshalls negotiate around a central lacuna. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: William Overington.
14. TreeLeaders Chess. Preset for Treeleaders Chess (invented by Erez Schatz). Author: Uri Bruck. Inventor: Erez Schatz.
15. Tripunch Chess. Superpowerful composite pieces play on the FIDE board. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.

V

1. Voidrider Chess. A 43 square variant with movable spaces. By Fergus Duniho.

W

1. Wizard Chess. Missing description Author: Daniil Frolov. Inventor: Paul E. Newton and Andrew P. Newton.
2. Wizard's War. Play this game with piece-creating Wizards and a board divided into arena and enchanted sections! Author: Tony Quintanilla and Michael Nelson. Inventor: Michael Nelson.
3. Wuss. Introducing the weakening Wuss piece, which must move when attacked but can not capture. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dan Troyka.

Y

1. Yáng Qí. Westernized adaptation of Chinese Chess. By Fergus Duniho.

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