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• 2Choice Chess. You can tell opponent which pieces he can move. (8x8, Cells: 64)

A

• 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).
• 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).

B

• Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Bland Chess. Chess with no diagonal moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Braves' Chess. Solves the problem of draws in chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Brickchucking Chess. Pieces cannot move backwards, but do give check/mate backwards.

C

• 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)
• 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. Pieces move backwards as Knight. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Center of Attention. In addition to regular rules, win by moving your King to a center square. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Checker-capture Chess. Pieces can capture as in checkers game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Chess with Quantum Bishops. Bishops move orthogonally along both paths and end up where a normal bishop would end up. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Chess960.com. Talk about Chess960 with other members.
• Claustrophobia Chess. game is lost if King has no space to move.
• Combo Modern Day Chess. Guard replaces the Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• 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. Some pieces are rearranged before play begins, thus enhancing opening ramification (with zrf).
• Cotati Chess. Promotion of a Pawn wins the game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• 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)

D

• Davis Variation of Suicide Chess. Win by checkmate or by loosing your pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• 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)
• 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)
• Douglas Modern chess. A chess variant with a more interesting start position, leading to more action.
• Drawless Chess. Simple rules are added to make draws impossible. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• 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)

E

• echess. (Micro) Evolutionary CHESS game.
• Enep. An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Exhausted King. Win by giving permanent check. . (8x8, Cells: 64)

F

• 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 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)
• Forwards Chess. A variation of FIDE Chess where pieces only move forward. (8x8, Cells: 64)

G

• 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).

H

• Hecatomb promotion. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Hoppel-Poppel. Modest divergent variant where Knights capture like Bishops and Bishops capture like Knights. (8x8, Cells: 64)

I

• Ibu Ibu Chess. Introduces the concept of a King's entourage, making King powerful and protected. (8x8, Cells: 64)

K

• Kings. A modest variant with more than one king. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Knight-Riding Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)

L

• 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. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Levitating Kings. Kings can levitate orthagonally or diagonally over a line of friendly pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)

M

• Madness of Kings Chess. The Kings are, simply put, insane!! (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Magician's Chess. Pieces switch board sides with each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• MiniXiangqi. S. Kusumoto's MiniXiangqi - Chinese Chess on a 7x7 board (with zrf).
• Moderate Progressive Chess. A player may make one more move than his opponent just made. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Modest Proposals - Various Authors. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
• A Modest Propsal. Missing description
• Modest Variant.. Black may castle out of check. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Multiple Formations. A proposal to add a set of formations to Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)

N

• Near Chess. This is a variant of Skirmish Chess designed to be friendlier to newbies. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• 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)
• Null chess. Capture squares are destroyed when vacated.

O

• Option-Suicide Chess. You can optionally destroy your own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)

P

• 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)
• 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)
• Pawntrooper chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Peasant Revolt. Modest variant with unequal setup. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Perier Chess. Introducing the Perier Cannon in a Western piece context (with zrf).
• Phantom Chess. Undefended pieces become "phantoms". (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Pilgrim Chess. A new method of introducing an extra piece to the standard board (with zrf).
• Pillow Chess . Chess on a Pillow-shaped board.
• 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 with another piece, except rook, and creating a new mirrored position (with zrf).
• Pretentious Chess. All Pieces can move as and demote to a Knight. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Proximity Chess. Players must move pieces nearest to the arrival square of the last piece moved. (8x8, Cells: 64)

R

• Random Transposal Chess. Use dice to swap pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Relocation Chess. A remarkably easy method of rearranging the standard array of pieces (with zrf).
• 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. The pawn can also capture forwards if positioned on 7th rank. Thus, many more won endgames (zrf included).
• Rooksquare Chess. Win by moving piece to corner at opponent's side. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Rotating Cylinder Chess. Positions of pieces rotate one square to the right after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Royal Amazon Chess. Queens are replaced by Royal Amazons. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Royal Magician's Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)

S

• 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)
• Simplified chess. Simple subset of the chess rules. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Simplified Chess. Missing description (8x7, Cells: 56)
• Skirmish Chess. Tony Paletta Modest proposal as separate link for discussion. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• 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)
• 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. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Suicide Chess, Davis Variation. Win by checkmate or by loosing your pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Swapmate Chess. Pieces have "mates" which they can swap places with. (8x8, Cells: 64)

T

• 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.
• TestIt. Missing description
• 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)
• Throne Chess. Same game as chess, except playing King to K8 wins too, by Thronemate.
• 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. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Troitzky Chess. Troitzky Chess by Paul Byway, standard pieces on irregular board (with zrf).

U

• Undecided Chess. Undecided Pawns can change into pieces by moving like them. (8x8, Cells: 64)

V

• 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.

W

• 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)

Z

• Zabel-Schach. A modest chess variant with an alternative pawn, the Zabel pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64)

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