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123456 Chess. Uses 2 dices for each player and 2 checkers for each player, in addition to normal chess pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Absolute checkless chess. No piece may cross a square where it gives check. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Accessory Chess
. A drop variant with one or two external pieces per player (many to choose from). Zillions (zrf) program available.
Adjutant Chess
. Introducing the Adjutant that can slide like a queen, but on the same square colour only (with zrf).
Ajax Orthodox Chess. Orthodox Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Ajax Random Chess. Pseudo-Fischer Random Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Aldress. A flight of fancy into the alternate history of chess.
Alternative Chess
. A drop variant with one single external piece per player (many to choose from). Zillions (zrf) program available.
Arena Chess. 32-turn variant in which pieces must initially move into a special area, and then always make capturing moves.
Armamentist Race Chess. Missing description (10x12, Cells: 116)
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Backwards Stalemate Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Bedlam. A hybrid of Metamorphin' Fusion Chess and Chessgi. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Beginners Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Blindfold Chess
. One of the oldest chess variants, where one of the players is blindfolded (zrf available).
Blue Queen on 64 and 80. Blue Queen belongs to both sides.
Bombalot. Bombs can wipe out most pieces on the board.
Builder chess. Introducing the Builder. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Calorie Chess. Pieces have a limited amount of calories to move with, and have resorted to cannibalism! (8x8, Cells: 64)
Cerimon Chess. Recover pieces by checking with a like piece. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chain of Fools. Game with a Chess set where the goal is form chains of defended pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chameleon Chess. On each turn the rank of the moved piece changes.
Chaos
. A strange Chess variant designed to baffle onlookers.
Chaotic Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
CHECK 11. 11 different original factions, chosen secretly, each with extra powers when few pieces remain.
Checkless Chess. No piece may cross a square where it gives check. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chess And Physics. Taken pieces leave energy on the board that can be transformed into `mass': pieces.
Chess and Xiangqi Variants. Variants from the Shakki-77 group.
Chess with Different Periods. Missing description (6x6, Cells: 36)
Chess with wickets. The wicket is behind the King's 1. (8x8, Cells: 66)
Chess960.com
. Talk about Chess960 with other members.
Choice chess. Propose five moves and your opponent selects one for you. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Clairvoyant Chess. Players predict what opponent will do to gain advantages.
Clockwork Orange Chess. Captured pieces are replaced with non-capturing counterparts. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Combat Chess II. A wargame-like chess variant. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Compromise Chess. Propose five moves and your opponent selects one for you. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Consider the Bishop.... A Game of Curiosity and Etiquette. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Construction. Chess pieces are modelled after construction vehicles. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Conversion Chess. A co-chess variant. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Corner Chess. Two or four player chess variant on 8 by 8 board with pieces starting in the corners. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Crazy Lightning Chess. Speed chess combined with an umpire calling out random rule changes.
csipgs Chess. Design and buy new chess pieces during play. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Czech Chess. Drop pawns by checking the King. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Diagonal Chess. Board turned 45 degrees. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Dice-Money Chess. Earn money if you do what is written on the dice. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Diplomacy chess. Simultaneously selected moves are only carried out when they do not conflict.
Drawless Chess. Simple rules are added to make draws impossible. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Drunken Fist Chess. Alternate between choosing and randomly selecting a move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Dynamic Chess. Pieces move like closest piece left on the same rank.
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Economy in Chess Variants. Several chess variants based on economic principles.
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The Fair First Move Rule in Chess. Every turn you flip a coin to see who goes first.
FTM Chess: Follow the Mover. After a normal move, you may move a piece to the vacated square. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Full Cavalry. Rooks are replaced by Lancers and castling is still legal.
Fusion Chess. Variant in which pieces may merge together or split apart. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Gambler's Chess. A scheme for adding betting to any Chess variant.
The Game of Nemoroth. For the sake of your sanity, do not read this variant! (8x8, Cells: 64)
Ganeshan Chess. Introducing a new Elephant piece known as (the) Ganapati. (10x10, Cells: 100)
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Haunted Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Hero's Chess. A chess with very different pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Hindustani Chess. 19th century Indian game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Hobgoblin Chess. Inchworm crowd-forming magnetic mutating lunar-hallway exploding-Pawn Chess; an extreme game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Hybrids. Standard pieces combine and split. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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IAGO Chess System. http://abstractgamers.org/wiki/iago-chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Imitating Chess. Pieces move as the last moved piece.
Imposter Chess
. Exchange captured pieces in order to move Kings in different ways.
Inertia Chess. Pieces continue to move in the same direction.
Interweave. Game with elements of Checkers and Ultima where all pieces are colorbound and only capture pieces on the other color. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Invisible King Chess. Opponent can't see where you moved your king to. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Jester Chess
. The Jester is an 'anon' piece but similar to the 'Fool' - beautiful commercial wooden sets - a must have!
Journalist's Chess. Journalist is movable to any position but no capture. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Kibitzing Vox Populi Chess variant. Rules for turning kibitzing into a game unto itself.
King Friday XIII Chess. Flexible castling, promotion to opponent's pieces, etc. (8x8, Cells: 64)
King of the Ladder Tournament Rules. Ideas for rules to mix variants together in one game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Kings. A modest variant with more than one king. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Kira Chess/Kira Shogi. "Kira" and "L" pieces which is not known by your opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Knight-Riding Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Knights of the Round Table. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Lag Chess. The last move made by your opponent is not known to you. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Lancelot. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Lao Tzu Chess. www.schemingmind.com. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Liars Chess. You may lie about the move you have made.
Lifeform Chess. Instead of individual units, pieces are parts of the body of a giant animal. (8x8, Cells: 64)
LiQi. Very Strong Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Liquid Chess. Missing description
Locusts. Simple chess variant with only two set of pieces on each army. (12x12, Cells: 144)
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Many Rules in One Game. List chess and variants.
Maxim chess. Variant, invented by my little brother. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Mecklenbeck Chess. Pawns can promote on the sixth row.
Metamorph Chess. Variant in which pieces transform by fixed rules into other pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Minesweeper chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Mockery Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Monochrome Chess
. All pieces are the same color. Players move pieces on their side of the board.
Multi-King Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Musketeer Chess. Adding 2 newly designed extra pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Nemoroth, The Game of. For the sake of your sanity, do not read this variant! (8x8, Cells: 64)
Neutral Subject Chess. Most pieces start neutral, and players compete to recruit them. (8x8, Cells: 64)
new age chess. a game played with the same board and set but with different rules. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Nietzsche Chess. That which does not capture a piece, makes it stronger. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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)
No-Chess. Forbid one move to your opponent each turn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Noli Me Tangere Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100)
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O/R Chess - Overloader/Restorer chess. A cochess variant.
Option-Suicide Chess. You can optionally destroy your own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Pacifist Chess. Missing description
Particle Collision Chess. Taken pieces leave energy on the board that can be transformed into `mass': pieces.
Pawn Chess. Pawns promote to first piece captured by opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Pawn Shooter Chess. Defeat your opponent by shooting pawns at them! (8x8, Cells: 64)
Pawns-to-Kings Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Phantom.
Classical Chess featuring an invisible Phantom piece.
Pocket knight. Each player has a knight that he can drop during the game. (Recognized!)
Pole Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Prime.Ministers Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Progressive Writing Chess. You have to write more and more each turn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Promote King Chess. King can promote into Cthulhu, and white pawns can promote into black pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Quadaptation. Use commanders to recruit better pieces. Capture your opponents commander and they lose.
Quark Chess. Missing description
Quarter Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Random Transposal Chess. Use dice to swap pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Refusal Chess. Refuse your opponent to make certain moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Schachdame. Variant between Checkers and Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Seventeen Pawns. You can replace opponent's queen by nine pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shamanic Chess
. Pieces may be transformed into 'Shamans'.
Shatranj Extended Tournament Scoring (S.E.T.S) Rules. An attempt at an improved scoring system for chess tournaments. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shatranj N W. catsmas.
Shogun Chess. Pieces promote and can be dropped, similar to Shogi.
Simultaneous Chess. A variant of chess where players select moves at same time. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sirlin's Chess. Alternative presentation of "Chess 2 - The Sequel". (8x8, Cells: 64)
SliderChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two extra Bishops per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor.
Solitary Patience Chess. Variant Chess Magazine vol 7, issue 56. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Stevenson's Four-Player Chess. A game for two 2-player teams on a regular Chess board with the object of capturing all opposing pieces.
StrataChess v1.0. separate Strategic and Tactical gameplay. 2-6 players. Element of Chance. Terrain. Build your own armies.
Sudden Death Chess. A piece must be sacrificed after each non-capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Superhero Chess. Major pieces are superheroes, pawns their (interchangeable) sidekicks. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Surprise Chess. Speed chess combined with an umpire calling out random rule changes.
Switch-Side Chain-Chess. Optionally swap sides with your opponent upon completing a "chain". (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Taxi Chess. Pay for moves: long moves are expensive.
Thunder Chess. A hybrid of Metamorph Chess, Fusion Chess, and Assimilation Chess. (8x8x64)
Tilting the Balance. Players can set off an atomic bomb.
Time Traveler's Chess
. Chess pieces may travel backwards in time.
Trade Chess. Captured pieces can be dropped, with restrictions. (8x8, Cells: 64)
The Travelers. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81)
Troja. Commercially sold game where pieces can be stacked. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Turnstyle. Four player chess variant using a normal chess set.
Twelve Mutation Chess. Variant that uses 12 mutators that may be activated or deactivated during the game.
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U-Chess. Moves are legal if they can be written with three symbols in descriptive notation. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Unreliable Delivery Chess. Pieces may get delayed before they arrive at their destinations.
Upgrade chess. Upgrade initially weak pieces by capturing. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Using chess sets to play mini-sukoku (6x6). Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
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Vavulin Creative Chess. Before the start of the game, every player, creates up with one rule for both players, which operates the whole game.
veSQuj - Chess with 21st century armies. A highly tactical variant with a 21st-century-war theme. (6x6, Cells: 36)
Veteran Chess. Most pieces can or must irreversibly promote when they capture.
Vox Populi Chess variant. A crowd plays itself at a game with only one winner.
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Wizard's Curse. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
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XYMYX. Players make their moves at the same time. (8x8, Cells: 64)
XYMYX
. Link to site where you can play this game!
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Zeitgeist.
. Variant with simultaneous movement.
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