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1. 007 Chess. 007 Chess involves three move per turn, including one of your opponent's pieces.

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1. 10 Minute Melee. Missing description
2. 10-directional Chess. Updated with rule-enforcing presets.
3. 12 Sharp Chess. Missing description
4. 123456 Chess. Missing description
5. 21st Century Chess. Missing description
6. 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range.

A

1. A9 HexaChess Courier Preset. Missing description
2. Aberg's variation of Capablanca's Chess. Play this variation on the Play-by-Email system!
3. Accessory Chess (with Divaricator). Drop chess with external piece. The Divaricator can capture by withdrawing in an oblique angle (+zrf).
4. Achernar. ACHERNAR is a mix of the game ALTAIR and Western Chess.
5. Adjutant Chess. Regular chess with extended castling, and extra corner squares. Makes new strategies possible (+zrf).
6. Adjutant Chess (with Adjutants). The Adjutant, besides sliding on the diagnals, can slide on the orthogonals by ignoring the other colour (+zrf).
7. Advanced wizard chess. Missing description
8. Agincourt. Decimal variant with Archers.
9. Air Attack Chess. Missing description
10. Airplane Chess. R. W. Schmittberger's Airplane Chess on the Game Courier.
11. Ajax Orthodox Chess. Orthodox Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers.
12. Al-Ces. Variant on 10 by 10 board with 30 pieces per player.
13. Alapo. A small chesslike game.
14. Aliens Vs Predators. Missing description
15. All pieces of classic chesses. Missing description
16. Alpaca Chess. An Alpaca, worth two pawns, is added to the standard piece context (with zrf).
17. Altair. Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor.
18. Amalgamated Chess. Missing description
19. Amazon Grand Chess. A combination of Grand Chess and Amazon Chess.
20. Amazons. Queens fire arrows to make squares unpassable. Last player that moves wins.
21. Amoeba. Jim Aikin's Amoeba on the Game Courier.
22. Ancient world war. Play this game on Game Courier.
23. Andernach. The capturing piece changes colors.
24. Anemic Chess. Rule-Enforcing Preset for Jaguaribe's short-range variant.
25. Anti-King Chess. Each player has both a King and an Anti-King to protect. Play it!
26. Anti-King Chess II. Win by putting your opponent's Anti-King out of check.
27. Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.
28. Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.
29. Arabian Nights Chess. Paul Newton's game on the Game Courier.
30. Arch-Chancellor Chess. Uses Archbishops instead of Bishops and Chancellors instead of Knights.
31. Archabbott Chess. Introduces the Archabbott piece which moves like Bishop + Wazir + Dabbaba.
32. Archchess. Late 17th chess variant from Italy on large board with pieces which include modern queen and squirrel.
33. Arrangement Chess. Swap king & queen before play begins. With mirrored kings and non-mirrored queens (with zrf).
34. Asteryx Chess. Preset for variant with asteryx shaped 43-space hexagonal board.
35. Atlantean Barroom Shatranj. The most ambitious in a series of new games Joe Joyce is introducing with powerful short range compound double jumpers.
36. Atlantean Coffee House Shatranj. Grand Shatranj on a Hex board.
37. Avalanche Chess. A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns. (Recognized!)
38. Azchess. Adds cannons to Az Chess and reverses the positions of some of the pieces to maximize pawn protection.
39. Azerbaijan Chess. http://zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/73747?do=show;id=1659.

B

1. Bachelor Chess. Play this game from the 42-square contest with the PBM system!
2. Bachelor Kamil. Play by E-mail! Combines ideas from Bachelor Chess and Wildebeest Chess.
3. Backlash. Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other!
4. Balbo's Chess. Board with a strange shape designed to make Bishops stronger in relation to Rooks.
5. Balbo's Chess 2. Balbos Chess 2.
6. Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules.
7. Barbershop Quartet. Toroidal Variant with Dual Direction Bishops.
8. Bario. Pieces are undefined until they move.
9. Battery Chess. Battery Chess on the Game Courier.
10. Battle Line. A military-style variant with 48 pieces per side.
11. Battle Room Chess. Win by getting four of your pieces in or around your enemy's gate.
12. Bellows Chess. The board expands and contracts from turn to turn.
13. Berolina Chess. Classic variant with different moving pawns.
14. Bifocal Chess. A game without capture : win by checkmate with a neutral piece!
15. Bifold Halfgi. Bifold pieces are able to combine with other same-colored bifold pieces and move as a single normal sized piece.
16. Bird's Chess. Predecessor to Capablanca's Chess with Guard and Equerry.
17. Bland Chess. Chess, but with no diagonal movements (aside from that built within the Knight).
18. Bland Chess 46. A 46 square variant of Bland Chess. Allows for War Machine, Knight, and/or Modern War Machine use.
19. Bomberman Chess. Two "bombs" and a "defuser" spice up this 10 x 8 game.
20. Brand X Random Chess. Play Chess with a randomized setup.
21. Brigadier Chess. Introducing the powerful Brigadier piece on a 68-square Gustavian board.
22. Brotherhood Chess. A piece cannot capture one of its own kind.
23. Brouhaha. Preset for Brouhaha, a game that brings the ruckus!
24. Building chess. Add a square after every move.
25. Butterfly Chess. Game with Butterflies (not Ns), Advancers (not Qs) & Flying Dragons added.
26. Byelorussian Chesskers. Pieces promote to "Damkas" in this Chess Checkers Hybrid.

C

1. Caïssa Britannia. Play this British-themed game with royal Queens plus Lions, Unicorns, and Dragons.
2. Camel and Rhino Chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board with new pieces.
3. Camelrider Chess. P. Aronson's big-board variant with regular pieces and Camelriders.
4. Cannon Shosu Shogi. Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons.
5. Cannonrider Chess. The Cannonrider moves differently depending on square colour: on white squares as a Nightrider; else as a Chinese Cannon.
6. Canyon Chess. Play this small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules!
7. Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess.
8. Capablanca's Chess. Play Capablanca's Chess on the Play-by-Mail system!
9. Cardinal Chess. Just like the usual Western contemporary, only replacing Mad Queen with Bishop Knight compound.
10. Castle Chess. As Fide-chess, but with extended castle: the king may jump three squares (with zrf).
11. Cataclysm. Large board variant with exciting, strategical play, and many powerful short-range pieces.
12. Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses!
13. Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement.
14. CCC - The Clash of Civilizations Chess. ...two Chess Armies made from (some of) the most popular pieces used in Western and Eastern Chess games.
15. CCChess - shuffle version. A few different imaginings of CCChess.
16. CDA Variant: Fighting Fizzies. Missing description
17. CDA: Pizza Kings. Experimental CDA army, submitted half in jest, with pieces whose movement imitates their shape.
18. Cellular Chess. Play Cellular Chess at Game Courier.
19. Centennial Chess. 10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix.
20. Cetina Random Chess. Missing description
21. CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns.
22. Champagne Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with ferfils and dragons added.
23. Chasm Chess. Berolina Pawns, reflecting Bishop and Queen, and a chasm in the board!
24. Chaturanga. Oldest known form of chess. (Recognized!)
25. Checkers. The most popular game besides Chess played on the same board.
26. Chesimals I. This game introduces "Chess Animals", independent groups of chess pieces that act as one large multi-square piece.
27. Cheskers. Fun and simple crossover between chess and checkers invented by professor Solomon W. Golomb.
28. Chess. Play Chess online with other people, using Game Courier, a PBM system that works with any web browser on any computer.
29. Chess 1010. Game with 40 pieces.
30. Chess 25 (Fischer Placement Chess). Swap king and/or queen before play begins. Follows FRC rules (with zrf).
31. Chess 9x9. Exciting variant combining classical pieces with Amazons, Camels and Dragon Horses.
32. Chess on a 12 by 12 board. Doug Vogel has placed the standard 32 chess pieces in the center of a 12x12 board.
33. Chess on a Larger Board with not so few Pieces Dropped Preset. Play this game with an interesting mix of Orthochess and Exotic pieces, some of which start in-hand!
34. Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. Play this 8x10 game with three new pieces.
35. Chess on the Dot. Play this adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
36. Chess on Two Boards. Chess on Two Boards.
37. Chess vs checkers. Missing description
38. Chess with Different Armies. A Ralph Betza personal favorite: Features series of armies with approximately the same strength as the FIDE army. (Recognized!)
39. Chess with Extended Castle. Standard chess with extended castle rule, effectuating greater opening variance (with zrf).
40. Chess with Promoters. Each player has a piece which may promote the pieces of his opponent.
41. Chess with Terrain. Play Greg Strong's Chess with Terrain on Game Courier.
42. Chess With Wizards. Chess with Wizards on the Game Courier.
43. Chess100. Piece positions are modestly randomized according to Arrangement Chess rules, castling is retained (+ zrf).
44. Chess256. The pawns are randomized on the 2nd and 3rd rank.
45. Chess400. Piece setup is randomized according to Configuration Chess rules, producing 400 modest, mostly non-mirrored, positions (+ zrf).
46. Chess484. Before play, certain pieces are regrouped, creating natural positions. Castling is retained (+ zrf).
47. Chess64. The piece array is moderately randomized according to Relocation Chess rules, castling is retained.
48. Chessgi. Play this hybrid of Chess and Shogi.
49. Chieftain Chess. Large variant using 4 royal pieces with command control, multi-piece moves and pieces that may shift direction as they move.
50. Chinese Chess. Play Xiang Qi, the Chinese form of Chess.
51. Chinese court. Missing description
52. Chogo-44. Game with pawns and kings with co-enclosure capture.
53. Chu Shogi. Historic Japanese favorite, featuring a multi-capturing Lion.
54. Circular Chess. PBM Preset for Circular Chess.
55. Cleopatra Chess. Dan Troyka game, similar to Benedict Chess but with only one color-changing piece. Cleopatra "seduces" any piece she sees.
56. Clockwork Orange Chess. Condition your opponent's pieces to be non-violent.
57. Cobra Chess. Link featuring piece that occupies four squares at once, the cobra, moves like a rook but can leap over friendly pieces.
58. Coherent Chess. Coherent Chess on the Game Courier.
59. Colossus. 10x10 chess with 4 Rooks, 4 Knights, 4 Bishops, 10 Pawns, 1 Queen and 1 King!
60. Commodore Chess. Featuring the Commodore piece (also called Leo) on a Gustavian board.
61. Compound Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Sergeant pawns & armies of compound pieces.
62. Compton Medieval Chess. Large variant with three new pieces.
63. Configuration Chess. King and queen swap with other pieces before play begins - enormous variety! (with zrf).
64. Congo. Demian Freeling's Congo on the Game Courier.
65. Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description
66. Corral Chess.. Force the opponent to the center in this 45/46 Cell Contest entry.
67. Courier Chess. A large historic variant from Medieval Europe.
68. Courier-Spiel. More modern version of Courier Chess, with Queen added.
69. Crab Chess (Chess4). Blocked flank pawns are have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf).
70. Crazy 38's. Ben Good's Crazy 38's on the Game Courier.
71. Crazyhouse. Play this two-player version of Bughouse. (Recognized!)
72. Critters: Chesimals III. Chesimals redesigned.
73. Cube Shogi. Shogi with cube-shaped pieces.
74. Culverin Chess. The Culverin is a cannon that can move like a king but must jump to capture (+zrf).
75. Cylindrical Chess. Sides of the board are supposed to be connected.

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1. Dada. The colorbound chess variant.
2. Decima. Variant on 10 by 10 board where you win when you have 10 points on the 10th row.
3. Delegating Chess. 84 square variant in which pieces delegate moving powers.
4. Delta88 Chess. trigonal chess using an hexagonal-lattice board.
5. Demi Chess. Weak short range pieces with less symmetry than some more familliar pieces.
6. The Demon Game. 10 x 10 game with extra Capablanca pieces.
7. Deneb. Now you can play Deneb on the Play-By-Mail system!
8. Deneb Play-By-Mail game. Observe this game being played in the Invent and Play contest! Turn 4.
9. Descent Chess. Kaufmann's drop variant. Begins with only K + P + P. Recommendable!
10. Desert Pub Chess. A game with Desert Ferz and Desert Wazirs which make muliple captures by jumping.
11. Devingt Chess. Game Courier to play Devingt Chess, on a 10x10 board with Sages (=Camels).
12. Diamond Chess. Chess on a Diamond board.
13. Dice Mate Chess. No capture; checkmate only happens if roll of the dice is favorable.
14. Dimachaer Chess. The Dimachaer is a gladiator bifurcation piece that must collide to move (+zrf).
15. Disintegration Chess. Pre-set for the game of disintegrating kings, rooks, fye'tins, and pawns.
16. Double Chess. FIDE Chess x 2(with extra queen replacing what would be an extra king).
17. Double Diamond. Pieces start diagonally across from one another and pawns move diagonally.
18. Dr. Who Chess. Variant based on the popular TV seiries.
19. Dragonet Chess. The Dragonet flies to any square queenwise, captures piece behind landing square (with zrf).
20. Dragonfly. Christian Freeling's 7x7 Chessgi type variant. No Queens. Pawns don't drop.
21. Dromedary Chess. Pieces adjacent to the King can leap like a Dromedary (Camel).
22. Dual Chess. A more Chess-like variant featuring the Marshall and the Cardinal.
23. Duel Chess. PBM Preset for 43-space variant played on two boards.
24. Dueling Archbishops. Chess game with only six cells but with a piece that morphs into four different forms.
25. The Duke of Rutland's Chess. Missing description
26. Dynamo Chess. Preset for Dynamo Chess.

E

1. Ecumenical Chess. Ecumenical Chess features three variants with camel-bishop, camel-rook knight-camel compounds.
2. Eight-Stone Chess. Players can move neutral stones as well as pieces.
3. Elephant Chess. Featuring the time-honoured Burmese Elephant.
4. Elephant Hunt. Ituri Forest Pygmi traditional game with chess-like elements.
5. Elite Chess. Elite Chess adds an Amazon to Capablanca's Game by adding one more row to the board.
6. Elk Chess. The double-barrelled Elk moves differently depending on square colour.
7. Elk Chess (with Scorpions). Poisonous Scorpion pawns combined with the restive Elk, that changes with the colour of the square.
8. Elkrider Chess. Elkrider plus regular pieces. The Elkrider moves like a Nightrider if standing on white squares, otherwise it moves like a Rook.
9. Elven Chess. Chu Shogi Lion, Dragon Horse, Dragon King, Guard on Grand Chess type setup.
10. Embassy Chess. Play this modern Bird's Chess variant based on the setup of Grand Chess.
11. En Passant Chess of Ingo Althofer. This is just FIDE Chess, but with board contracted by one row. Try it out.
12. Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added.
13. English Random Chess. Play this game with standard chessmen on a 10x10 board, with randomized piece setup.
14. Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced.
15. Episcopal Chess. Play this symmetric version of Chess online.
16. Essedar Chess. The Essedar is a bifurcation piece that moves by colliding (+zrf).
17. Euchess. Missing description
18. Eurasian Chess. Synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess.
19. ExCoCo Chess. Missing description
20. Existentialist Chess. Play this game on a 10x10 board with many different pieces.
21. Expanded Chess. 100 square chess with complementary pieces.
22. Extrapawn Chess. Standard chess with one extra pawn per player in the reserve (with zrf).

F

1. Falcon Chess. Play Falcon Chess on Game Courier!
2. Falcon Chess RFNB. Falcon Chess with a new setup.
3. Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Hex Falcon on the Game Courier.
4. Falcon King Chess. A shortrange variant on an 8x8 board featuring a pair of royal Falcons.
5. Fantastic XIII. This is the G.C. preset for Fantastic XIII, a bizarre CV,13 types of pieces on 13x13 board.
6. Fighting Kings. Fighting Kings cannot be checked or checkmated; but a Royal Pawn can.
7. Fighting Kings and Throne Kings. Chess with a normal Fide King and a Fighting King immune from check and checkmate. A sister game to Fighting Kings.
8. Fischer Random Chess. Play Bobby Fischer's randomized Chess variant on Game Courier. (Recognized!)
9. Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces are external and can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf).
10. Fool's Hexagonal Chess Courier Preset. Missing description
11. Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board.
12. Fugue. Based on Ultima and Rococo this game has pieces that capture in unusual ways.
13. Fusion Chess. Play this variant in which pieces combine and split apart.
14. Fusion Diamond 41. A Fusion Chess variant played on a diamond shaped board of 41 squares.
15. Futashikana Shogi. Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board.

G

1. Gala. Historical German variant from the Middle Ages.
2. Gamma2 Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Berolina Pawns & special Ship & Archer pieces.
3. Gast's Chess. Large 1969 variant using the Cardinal (Guard) and the Chancellor (Archer).
4. General and Arch-General Chess. Variations of Bird's Chess.
5. Giant Chess. 16 x 16 variant with lots of powerful pieces and the unique four square occupying Dev piece which is not easy to capture.
6. Gigachess II. Evolution of Gigachess. 24 different types of pieces on a 14 x 14 board.
7. goChess. goChess.
8. Golden Age Chess on a Really Big Board. Play this 16 x 16 variant with several different pieces.
9. Gorgona Chess. V. R. Parton's Gorgona paralyzes enemy pieces so they can't move (with zrf).
10. Grand Betza. Play Grand Betza on Game Courier.
11. Grand Cavalier Chess. Decimal variant with Cannons and Cavalier Chess pieces.
12. Grand Chess. Decimal variant with Cardinals and Marshalls.
13. Grand Combination Courier. Game with Compounds of Elemental (Atomic) FIDE Pieces Plus Camel, with Mostly Logical Promotions.
14. Grand Rider Chess. If you love riders, you'll love Grand Rider Chess, which combines several different colorbound and non-colorbound riders.
15. Grand Shatranj. Grand Shatranj.... extends the examination of short-range leapers by looking at another 2-square jumper and 2 short-range riders.
16. Grand Tamerlane Chess. Variation of Mideast Chess by John Davis.
17. 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.
18. Grande Acedrex. Missing description
19. Grasshopper Chess. Each player has eight additional grasshoppers.
20. GraTiA. Preset for GraTiA, a blend of two historic variants.
21. Great Chess. An Indian/Turkish and very playable historic variant on a 10 by 10 board.
22. Great Shatranj. What if chess evolved differently so short-range pieces became more powerful by gaining additional short-range moves?
23. Gross Chess. Play this 144 square variant online with Game Courier.
24. Gryphon Aanca Chess. Large variant with Gryphons, Aancas, and a few other not-so-common pieces.
25. Gunnery Chess. Cannon pawns can leap over friendly piece and explode an enemy piece on the same file.
26. Gunnery Chess (8x10). Cannon pawns can leap over friendly piece and explode an enemy piece on the same file. Regular pieces plus Mastodons.
27. Gunnery Chess (with Scorpions). The Scorpion pawns have the additional capability of cannon-like moves. Very advanced. Only recommendable to grandmasters!
28. Gustav III's Chess. Invented by King Gustav III of Sweden (1746-92).
29. Gustavian Camelrider Chess. Camelriders and regular pieces on a Gustavian (68squares) board.
30. Gustavian Cannonrider Chess. Cannonriders and regular pieces on a Gustavian (68 squares) board. Cannonriders move differently depending on square colour.
31. Gustavian-Camelrider Chess (with Scorpions). Camelriders and Scorpions on a 68 square Gustavian board.
32. Gustavian-Cannon Chess. The Swedish Cannon moves like a Korean Cannon, but can move like a rook if it cannot jump (+zrf).

H

1. Half Courier. Missing description
2. Hanga Roa. Play Hanga Roa on Game Courier!
3. Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board.
4. Heavy Chess. Play Heavy Chess on Game Courier.
5. Heavy Gravity Chess. Due to heavy gravity, Knights can't jump, Queens, Rooks, & Bishops can't move more than 4 spaces. Kings move like Ferz.
6. Heavy Shako. 10x10 variant inspired by Yangsi, made by Eric Silverman. (10x10, Cells: 100)
7. Hectochess. 10x10 variant that can be played with 2 mismatched Chess sets.
8. Henry VIII Chess Preset. This is the preset for Henry VIII Chess (unique take on Extinction Chess).
9. Heroes Hex Chess version 2. Hexagonal Chess with new movement rules on a "standard" 91 hex board.
10. Heroes Hexagonal Chess. Play this game from the 84-square contest on the Play-By-Mail system!
11. Hex Dragonal Chess. horizontal hex-rows and 4 defined directions of movement.
12. Hex Shogi 41. Hexagonal shogivariant on board with 41 spaces.
13. Hex Shogi 81. A hexagonal Shogi variant on an 81-space board.
14. Hex Shogi 91. A hexagonal Shogi variant on a 91-space board.
15. Hexagonal Chess (Glinski). Chess on a board made out of hexagons. (Recognized!)
16. Hexagonal Chess (McCooey). Chess on a board, made out of hexes. (Recognized!)
17. Hexcetran Chess. Play Hexcetran Chess at Game Courier.
18. Hexes Chess. Hexes Chess now available for play on the Game Courier!
19. Hexetera. Play Hexetera on the Game Courier!
20. Hexmate. A two-player variant on a hex board made up of 127, 3-color hexagons.
21. Hiashatar. Mongolian Decimal Chess.
22. Hindustani Chess. 19th century Indian game.
23. Hole Chess. Variant on a board of 44 squares with two holes that pieces can be dragged into.
24. Hopper Chess (with Scorpions). Pieces standing before friendly pieces can jump over enemy Scorpion pawn and land directly behind it.
25. Hopper-Chess. Pieces in front of friendly pieces can land immediately behind enemy pawns.
26. Hopper-Elk Chess. Pieces can hop over an enemy pawn and land directly behind it. The Elk moves differently depending on square colour.
27. Hostage Chess. Play this Chessgi-like game in which no pieces change sides. (Recognized!)
28. House of 10 Mirrors - H o M Variant. Reflective pieces from up to 10 mirrors add to offense and defense.
29. House of Mirrors Chess. Mirrors and reflective pieces add interesting twists to strategy by making pieces appear in 2 or 3 places at the same time.
30. Hubbub. Preset for Hubbub, a short-range version of Brouhaha.
31. Hullabaloo. Fusion, fission game with drops, giant conglomerations and two types of activation.
32. Hunt Chess. Huntsman Chess and Groundskeeper Chess.
33. HyperModern Shatranj. Missing description

I

1. I'm a Ferz, Get Me Into There!. Inspired by title of Chas. Gilman's game, "I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here!" Object is to get your Ferz to Z5.
2. I-Chess. Play this 12x12 large board game with two new peices.
3. Ideal Chess. Uses compound pieces to mimic the use of cards.
4. Imperial Chess. Play this large variant with new pieces and victory by capture of royal pieces!
5. Imposter Chess. Play this game! Exchange captured pieces in order to move Kings in different ways.
6. Improved Chess. An improvement of standard chess: a blocked pawn on the far side gets extra jump moves to empty squares (with zrf).
7. Indistinguishable Chess. All pawns and pieces appear the same in color and size, for both sides. The board has no 'dark' squares.
8. Interdependent Chess. A 42 square variant in which pieces borrow capturing ability from other pieces.
9. Invasion. A military inspired Chess variant played on an 84-square board.

J

1. Jacks and Witches. Play this variant on 84 squares with special pieces and special squares!
2. Janus Kamil Chess. A crossover between Janus Chess and Modern Kamil Chess.
3. Jester Chess. Featuring pieces that mimic last piece moved, archers that can either capture OR move. quadrapawns, and murray lions.
4. Jetan. Play Edgar Rice Burrough's Jetan (Martian Chess).
5. Jetan Jeddara. Large variant of Jetan.
6. Jetan Sarang. Play this large variation of Jetan!
7. Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10.
8. Jumping Knights Chess. Nightriders replace Knights and War Machines have also been added to Jumping Chess.
9. Jungles and Mountains Chess. Bull-Dozers must clear through jungle brush and Engineers must make passages through mountains to free up piece movement.
10. Juxtaposition Chess. Normal moves, plus pawns switch places with stones; pieces switch places with flags.

K

1. Kamikaze Mortal Shogi. Send your Kamikazes on suicide missions in this Shogi variant.
2. King's Guard Chess. Missing description
3. King's Reincarnation. Captured Kings return to the board, but at a price.
4. Kinglet. Play Kinglet, where you win by capturing all pawns.
5. Kings. Kings on the Game Courier.
6. Kings Reincarn. II - Altered States Variant. Captured Kings return to the board by replacing a friendly piece and moving as it did.
7. Knight Court Chess. When you take an opponent's piece, he gets to drop it back on the board. Object: Checkmate knight.
8. Knightmate. Play Knightmate, where you win by mating the Knight.
9. Korean Chess. Play Korea's regional Chess variant on Game Courier.
10. Kozune. Missing description
11. Kozune vs FIDE. Missing description

L

1. Large Nahbi Chess. Preset for Large Nahbi Chess.
2. Latrunculi duo milia et septum. Chess with rook/ferz & bishop/wazir substitutes for rooks and bishops.
3. Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move.
4. Leapers Chess. Decimal variant with additional leaping abilities for each of the pieces.
5. Leapers Creeepers. Featuring compound long leapers of giraffes, zebras and camels.
6. Lemurian Shatranj. Lemurian pieces which utilize either or both types of their possible moves, possibly changing direction after the first.
7. Lines of Relay. The addition of a piece - the "Lore Apprentice" adapted from the Querquisite. "LoR(e)" stands for Lines of Relay.
8. Lions and Unicorns Chess. Play this large Chess variant with Lions and Unicorns.
9. Little River Chess. 46 Cell game with Chinese Chess influence. Kings confined to palaces.
10. Little Trio. Missing description
11. Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take.
12. Losing Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins.

M

1. Maasai Chess. Play Maasai Chess with Game Courier.
2. Maces and Horse-apults. Similar to chess, but on a 10 x 10 board and the addition of Maces and Horse-apults.
3. Maces, Horse-apults, and Tulpas. Maces and Horse-apults with user-created Tulpa pieces.
4. Maces, Shields, and Horse-apults. Like Maces and Horse-apults, but pawns are protected from Mace capture.
5. Macrochess. Missing description
6. Mad Chess (Steel=White). Chess variant with unequal armies on 10 by 10 board.
7. Mad Chess (Stone=White). Chess variant with unequal armies on 10 by 10 board.
8. Mad Elephant Chess. Missing description
9. Mad Queen Shogi. Play this new Chess/Shogi hybrid on Game Courier.
10. Mainzer Schach. 11 x 8 variant with two Januses and one Marshall, and different setup.
11. Makruk. Play the traditional Chess variant of Thailand on Game Courier.
12. Mamra Chess. Adds the Mamra, a piece that only Pawns may capture.
13. Marseillais Chess. Move twice per turn. (Recognized!)
14. Mastodon Chess. Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant.
15. Mastodon Chess (8x10). Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant.
16. Maxima. Play Maxima, an interesting and exiting variant of Ultima, with new elements that make Maxima more clear and dynamic.
17. Mayhem Chess. Different pieces and setup.
18. Medusa Shogi. A Shogi variant of Pillars of Medusa, which is based on Turkish Great Chess.
19. Mesmer Chess. Introduces a new piece, the mesmerist, which can control how opposing pieces move.
20. Metamachy. Play this large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces.
21. Meteoric Chess. A sober but lively drop chess variant with standard pieces (zrf available).
22. Mighty Lion Chess. Orthodox Western Chess but with one knight replaced by Chu Shogi Lion.
23. Millennium Chess Preset. This is the preset for Millennium Chess.
24. Miller's Spherical Chess. Play this early adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
25. Mimic Chess. Chess on a larger board with 3 new pieces with constantly changing movement capabilities.
26. Mini Hexchess. McCooey's Hexagonal Chess on smaller board.
27. Mini Thunder Chess. A small-scale hybrid of Metamorph Chess, Fusion Chess, and Assimilation Chess.
28. Mir Chess. Play this variant that is mid-powered between Chess and Shatranj.
29. Mitsugumi Shogi. Smaller variant of Suzumu Shogi on a 13x13 board. (13x13, Cells: 169)
30. Modern Capablanca Random Chess. Missing description
31. Modern Carrera's Chess. Play this modern version of Carrera's Chess on Game Courier.
32. Modern Chess. Play on Game Courier.
33. Modern Courier Chess. Missing description
34. Modern drunk elephant shogi. Missing description
35. Modern Makruk. A fusion of Modern Chess and Makruk.
36. Modern Random Chess. Missing description
37. Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj.
38. Modern Shatranj D & R. Missing description
39. Monkey King Chess. Monkey King fights Goblin King on 44 squares board in game with oriental influences.
40. More 10. Chessvariant on a board with 10 squares.
41. Mortal Chessgi. Play this Chessgi variant in which each capture decreases material.
42. Mortal Shogi. Play this Shogi variant in which pieces may die.
43. Motorotor. Play this small variant with a rotating board.
44. MRC64. Modern Random Chess 64.
45. Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Variant where you can only checkmate or be checkmated on move 10, 20, 30, ect..
46. Musketeer Chess. A game that adds extra pieces to Chess, playable online with Game Courier.
47. Mystery Chess. An imperfect information variant you can play online with Game Courier.
48. Mythical Fantasy Conquest. Play this large variant with new fantasy pieces!

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1. Nadvorney's Spherical Chess. Play Nadnorney's adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
2. Nahbi Chess. Preset for Nahbi Chess.
3. Napoleonic Chess. Large chess variant with the `spirit of the Armies of the Napoleonic period'.
4. Naydorian Chess. an hexagonal variant from the fictional realm of Shadowgard.
5. Near Chess Preset. This is the preset for Near Chess.
6. Net Chess. Variant of InterGrid Chess. Move between intersections.
7. Neutral King Chess. V.R. Parton's game where two armies share a King both must try to mate.
8. New Chess. Drop-chess with pawn relocation. Standard pieces and rules. Ideal for avoiding opening theory.
9. Nilakantha's Intellectual Game. 17th or 18th century Indian chess variation.
10. Nine-Queen Chess. Queens are placed instead of Pawns.
11. Ninth Century Indian Chess. Differs from Shatranj in the setup and the Elephant's move.
12. Nonary Chess. King or queen are optionally swapped with a bishop before play begins (with zrf).
13. Nuclear Chess. Play Nuclear Chess on the Play-By-Mail System!
14. Nuclear Chess Play-By-Mail game. Examine this game!
15. Nutty Shogi. Smaller version of Tenjiku Shogi on a 13x13 board.

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1. Oblong Chess 44. Based on the original oriental variant "Oblong Chess", a 16X4 Shataranj variant, but reducing the number of lines.
2. Odin's Rune Chess. With pieces that were inspired by rune images and meanings....
3. Omega Chess. This preset for Omega Chess enforces the rules and spots check, checkmate, and stalemate.
4. Opulent Lemurian Shatranj. Joe Joyce's Shaman and Hero pieces are on a large board.
5. Orphic Chess. Before the King is dropped the pieces can only capture. A very tactical and fast variant.
6. Orphic Chess (with Elks). Before the King is dropped the pieces can only capture. A very tactical and fast variant, with Elks.
7. Outback Chess. Play this game with new pieces on plus-shaped board. Winner of the 84-square contest!
8. OverKnight Chess. Pawns are replaced by Knights, which promote.
9. Oxybeles Chess. The Oxybeles can sling a piece to the farthest square in the movement direction (+zrf).

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1. Palace Revolution. Play this 44 square variant with Templar Knights and Squire Pawns with Game Courier.
2. Paloma Chess. Game with Royal Queen, promotable Kings, and an unusual array.
3. Panchimera. 33 pieces a side, includes all the knight augmented pieces.
4. Parity Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with Champions and FADs added.
5. Paulovits's Game. Istv.
6. Pawn Eaters. Win by capturing 8 pawns. Uses Shamanic Rooks, Pawn Eaters, Old Y Mover Elephants, and traditional Knights.
7. Peasant Revolt. Modest variant with unequal setup.
8. Pemba. Game Courier Preset to play Pemba, 60 pieces on the decimal board.
9. Perfect Chess. Like Tutti Frutti Chess but with a different array.
10. Pillars of Medusa. Play this variation of Turkish Great Chess with two additional pieces, the Morph and the Medusa, on Game Courier .
11. PiRaTeKnIcS. Play this 44-squares chess variant in which pirates on ships fight each other on Game Courier.
12. Placement Chess. King and queen are swapped before play begins, generating FRC subset (with zrf).
13. Placement Random Chess (Chess 20). The piece setup is randomized following Placement Chess rules, generating 20 modest Fischer Random positions.
14. 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.
15. Polymorph Chess. Knights and Bishops can morph into each other or into combined pieces.
16. Pompeii Chess. Small variant with piece drops, orthogonal pawn moves and one each of all the FIDE pieces.
17. Pool Chess. Queens and Bishops bounce 90 degrees off the board edge.
18. Presiding Chess. Decimal Variant combining a number of exotic pieces.
19. Prime Ministers Random Chess. Missing description
20. Prime-Ministers Chess. Missing description
21. Pseudo-Modern Random Chess. Missing description
22. Pyrrhus Chess. The Pyrrhus moves like a king but paralyzes enemy pieces at queen's distance (with zrf).

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1. Quake Chess. Quake Chess on the Game Courier.
2. Queen of the Night Chess. An over powered game on the Standard Board.
3. Queens or Castles. Wizards promote by making an opponent's piece [or pawn] and themself vanish from the board.
4. Querquisite Chess. The Whimsical Querquisite on the Game Courier.
5. Quinquereme Chess. Large variant with a new piece, the Quinquereme.

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1. Racing Kings. Missing description
2. Randomscorpions Chess. The Scorpions are randomly distributed on the 2nd and 3rd rank. Otherwise regular setup.
3. Ready Chess. Play this game, where pieces cannot capture right after capturing, they have to be restored first!
4. Reformed Chess. Pawn can swap with an enemy piece located on the last rank, except king. Thusly, many more won endgames (zrf available).
5. Regement Random Chess. Pieces are relocated to create a modest setup that most chessplayers will feel at home in (+ zrf).
6. Regiment Chess. Black determines king position, white can swap the queen before play begins (with zrf).
7. Relativistic Chess. http://www.chessvariants.org/boardrules.dir/relativistic.html.
8. Relocation Chess. Swap a pair of your own pieces before you begin. With Fischer Random castling rules.
9. Remote Sensing. 2 remote sensor pieces per side can mimic pieces on their current square color.
10. Remote Sensing 8 x 8. An 8 x 8 version of Remote Sensing.
11. Remote Sensing with On & Off-Board Detection. Special pieces mimic others, some on-board, some which have been captured.
12. Replacement Chess. Replace your opponent's men on the board after you capture them.
13. Reroute66. Play this adaptation of Chess to a 66 space board with some overlapping spaces. (10x8, Cells: 66)
14. Revised Chess. A revision of Fide-chess: a pawn on the seventh rank can also capture forwards. Makes chess much less drawish (with zrf).
15. Rifle Chess. Take a move to capture an enemy piece without moving the capturing piece.
16. Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board (includes mirror array and Push-Pullyu variants).
17. Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square.
18. Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines.
19. Roswell Chess. Preset for alien game with abstract pieces that operate in unusual ways.
20. Royal CannonChess. Pieces next to the king can capture forwards by a cannon leap.
21. Royal Court. Play Royal Court on Game Courier.
22. 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!
23. Royal Rumble. A 6 board all-out melee with random pieces, royals and starting positions.
24. Ruddigore Chess. Play this Chessgi variant where you can capture your own pieces, and every other turn you must capture or sacrifice a piece!
25. Ryugi. 10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider.

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1. Sac Chess. Play classical chess along with classical compound pieces: amazons, chancellors, archbishops...
2. Sanctuary Chess. Archbishop and Swiss Guard replace Queen and King; no checkmate.
3. Save the Standard. Missing description
4. Schoolbook. This is a Game Courier preset for Schoolbook Chess.
5. Scorpion Chess. Poisonous Scorpions instead of pawns.
6. Secutor Chess. The Secutor is a bifurcation piece that must collide and deviate in order to capture (+zrf).
7. Seenschach. Crooked Bishops, Reflecting Bishops, Harvesters and Hornets navigate around a giant central abyss.
8. Seeping Switchers - A Chess with Different Armies Variant. Chess with Different Armies variant with Panda, knight wazir, slip queen and a lame bent rider unicorn.
9. Seirawan Chess. Normal rules, except two extra pieces can be introduced: Hawk and Elephant (with zrf).
10. Seirawan Chess. Play this variant with extra pieces to drop into the game.
11. Separate Realms Chess. Pieces capture like normal FIDE pieces, but have limited moves that only take them to part of the board when not capturing.
12. Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. I G Shafran's Game on the Game Courier.
13. Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board.
14. Shanghai Palace Chess. Play this blend of Chinese, Japanese and Western Chess on Game Courier!
15. Shatra. Old game from the Altai from Russia, on special shaped board with draughts-like capture.
16. Shatranj. The widely played historic Arabian game, predecessor of modern chess. (Recognized!)
17. Shatranj Al-Husun - Citadel Chess. Historical variant of Shatranj.
18. Shatranj Darwinian. A game that shows the evolution of today's classic pieces. Wazirs and Ferz evolve into modern pieces.
19. Shatranj Kamil. Shatranj Kamil or "Perfect Chess" a historical variant combining alfils, camels rooks and ferz.
20. Shatranj Kamil (64). Modern Shatranj-based variant with new pieces.
21. Shatranj of Troy. A Shatranj variant with Shogi-like drops, a Trojan Horse (with 6 pieces inside).
22. Shatranji. Chessgi with Shatranj pieces.
23. Shatranjian Dragon Shogi. Shatranjian Shogi with pawn promotes to Dragons and capture revert to pawns.
24. Shatranjian Shogi. Ferz and wazir, dabbaba and elephant offset each other in this new Shatranj drop game.
25. Shogi. Play the Japanese form of Chess, in which captured pieces can be dropped back as your own. (Recognized!)
26. Shogi-of-Chesstonia. 9 x 12 Shogi Variant that includes a Queen and some Modern Shatranj Pieces.
27. SHORANJI. 9 x 10 variant of Six Fortresses Short Range which allows pawns to have an initial 2-step move.
28. SHORANJI Maximus. 9 x 12 variant of Six Fortresses Short Range. 2-Step pawn initial move option.
29. Shosu Shogi. 10x10 Shogi variant with Queens and more powerful promoted pieces.
30. Simpleton's Chess Preset. This is an even simplier version of Simplified Chess.
31. Six Fortresses. Capture Fortress to releases free pieces to drop. Imposter Kings will complicate checkmates.
32. Six Fortresses Short Range. A variation of Six Fortresses using short-ranged pieces.
33. Slide Chess. Variant on 44 squares with moving cages.
34. Smaller Alice Chess. Missing description
35. Smess. Play this old Parker Brothers game in which arrows direct movement. (Recognized!)
36. SOHO Chess. Chess on a 10x10 board with Champions, FADs, Wizards & Cannons.
37. Sosarian Chess. 12x8 Game with Capablanca-type pieces plus two lions.
38. SpaceWar. SpaceWar.
39. SpaceWarp44 Chess. 44 square board has warp squares that allow a teleport to another warpsquare.
40. Spacious Cannoneers vs Betza's classic armies. Several presets featuring Spacious Cannoneers vs Colorbound Clobberers, Nutty Knights and Remarkable Rookies.
41. Spacious Torus Chess. Toroidal 8 x 8 using "spacious" FIDE pieces which require the next square beyond to be empty to either move or capture.
42. Split Phase Tri-Plane. 3 Boards. Captured pieces split for use on other boards occupied only by kings.
43. Star Pool Chess. Large variant of Makruk, with a center non-square that acts as a bridge.
44. Stones and Relays. Pieces get to re-originate from neutral relay squares they attack.
45. Storm the Ivory Tower. Play this Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess by email.
46. Suffocation Chess. FIDE setup with new capture.
47. Summoner's Chess. Pieces are created and improved through the use of cards.
48. Suzumu Shogi. 16x16 variant based on Tenjiku Shogi. (16x16, Cells: 256)
49. Swedish Cannon Chess. Mats Winther's new piece and game on the Game Courier.
50. Swedish Chess. Drop chess with regular pieces. Pieces dropped can relocate friendly pawns.
51. Swedish Hopper Chess. Features the Swedish Hopper.
52. Switching Chess. In addition to normal moves, switch with an adjacent friendly piece.
53. Symchess. 10 x 10 setup with Capablanca-esque pieces and camels or fils.
54. Symmetric Chess. Play chess with a couple of queens flanking the king.
55. Symmetron! 112. Large version of Symmetron!, with a third modifier.
56. Symmetron! 44. Most pieces move orthogonally or diagonally according to situation.

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1. Take Over Chess. Jump across pieces to take them over from your opponent.
2. Takeover Chess Play-By-Mail game. Examine this game played in the Invent and Play contest! Drawn.

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