Query Results
Type=Game
Category=Usual-Modest
Language 'English'
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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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 4 extra squares 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
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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