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- 007 Chess. 007 Chess involves three move per turn, including one of your opponent's pieces.
- 10 Minute Melee. Missing description
- 10-directional Chess. Updated with rule-enforcing presets.
- 12 Sharp Chess. Missing description
- 123456 Chess. Missing description
- 21st Century Chess. Missing description
- 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range.
- 6hess. Each piece moves 6 times before disappearing.
- A9 HexaChess Courier Preset. Missing description
- Aberg's variation of Capablanca's Chess. Play this variation on the Play-by-Email system!
- Accelerated Chess. White makes one move at first and then each player makes either a capturing move or two non-capturing moves.
- Accessory Chess (with Divaricator). Drop chess with external piece. The Divaricator can capture by withdrawing in an oblique angle (+zrf).
- Achernar. ACHERNAR is a mix of the game ALTAIR and Western Chess.
- Active King Chess. Each turn, one must move one's king in addition to moving other pieces.
- Actualized Potential Chess. Pieces exist where they are but also all along their routes or points of attack.
- Adjutant Chess. Regular chess with extended castling, and extra corner squares. Makes new strategies possible (+zrf).
- Adjutant Chess (with Adjutants). The Adjutant, besides sliding on the diagnals, can slide on the orthogonals by ignoring the other colour (+zrf).
- Advanced wizard chess. Missing description
- Agincourt. Decimal variant with Archers.
- Air Attack Chess. Missing description
- Airplane Chess. R. W. Schmittberger's Airplane Chess on the Game Courier.
- Ajax Orthodox Chess. Orthodox Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers.
- Al-Ces. Variant on 10 by 10 board with 30 pieces per player.
- Alapo. A small chesslike game.
- Aliens Vs Predators. Missing description
- All pieces of classic chesses. Missing description
- Alpaca Chess. An Alpaca, worth two pawns, is added to the standard piece context (with zrf).
- Altair. Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor.
- Amalgamated Chess. Missing description
- Amazon Chess. Well known old variant with amazons instead of Queens in FIDE Chess.
- Amazon Grand Chess. A combination of Grand Chess and Amazon Chess.
- Amazons. Queens fire arrows to make squares unpassable. Last player that moves wins.
- Amoeba. Jim Aikin's Amoeba on the Game Courier.
- Ancient world war. Play this game on Game Courier.
- Andernach. The capturing piece changes colors.
- Andy's Chess. Missing description
- Anemic Chess. Rule-Enforcing Preset for Jaguaribe's short-range variant.
- Anti-King Chess. Each player has both a King and an Anti-King to protect. Play it!
- Anti-King Chess II. Win by putting your opponent's Anti-King out of check.
- Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.
- Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.
- Arabian Nights Chess. Paul Newton's game on the Game Courier.
- Arch-Chancellor Chess. Uses Archbishops instead of Bishops and Chancellors instead of Knights.
- Archabbott Chess. Introduces the Archabbott piece which moves like Bishop + Wazir + Dabbaba.
- Archchess. Late 17th chess variant from Italy on large board with pieces which include modern queen and squirrel.
- Arrangement Chess. Swap king & queen before play begins. With mirrored kings and non-mirrored queens (with zrf).
- Assimilation Chess. Play this variant in which pieces assimilate the powers of captured pieces.
- Asteryx Chess. Preset for variant with asteryx shaped 43-space hexagonal board.
- Atlantean Barroom Shatranj. The most ambitious in a series of new games Joe Joyce is introducing with powerful short range compound double jumpers.
- Atlantean Coffee House Shatranj. Grand Shatranj on a Hex board.
- Avalanche Chess. A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns. (Recognized!)
- Azchess. Adds cannons to Az Chess and reverses the positions of some of the pieces to maximize pawn protection.
- Azerbaijan Chess. http://zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/73747?do=show;id=1659.
- Bachelor Chess. Play this game from the 42-square contest with the PBM system!
- Bachelor Kamil. Play by E-mail! Combines ideas from Bachelor Chess and Wildebeest Chess.
- Backlash. Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other!
- Balbo's Chess. Board with a strange shape designed to make Bishops stronger in relation to Rooks.
- Balbo's Chess 2. Balbos Chess 2.
- Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules.
- Barbershop Quartet. Toroidal Variant with Dual Direction Bishops.
- Bario. Pieces are undefined until they move.
- Battery Chess. Battery Chess on the Game Courier.
- Battle Line. A military-style variant with 48 pieces per side.
- Battle Room Chess. Win by getting four of your pieces in or around your enemy's gate.
- Bedlam. Play this hybrid of Fusion Chess, Metamorph Chess, and Chessgi.
- Bellows Chess. The board expands and contracts from turn to turn.
- Berolina Chess. Classic variant with different moving pawns.
- Bifocal Chess. A game without capture : win by checkmate with a neutral piece!
- Bifold Halfgi. Bifold pieces are able to combine with other same-colored bifold pieces and move as a single normal sized piece.
- Bigorra. Game Courier Preset for Bigorra, a large CV, 80 pieces of 34 types on 16x16 sq. board. (16x16, Cells: 256)
- Bird's Chess. Predecessor to Capablanca's Chess with Guard and Equerry.
- Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description
- Blackjack Chess. Reduce the point value of your pieces to exactly 21 points and win the game. Or do it the old-fashioned way.
- Bland Chess. Chess, but with no diagonal movements (aside from that built within the Knight).
- Bland Chess 46. A 46 square variant of Bland Chess. Allows for War Machine, Knight, and/or Modern War Machine use.
- 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.
- Blue Chip Chess. Fun variant where each turn you get to create an off-limits square for your opponent .
- Bomberman Chess. Two "bombs" and a "defuser" spice up this 10 x 8 game.
- BordahBee. A two-move, two-board game with restrictions for the second move according to the first move.
- Brand X Random Chess. Play Chess with a randomized setup.
- Brigadier Chess. Introducing the powerful Brigadier piece on a 68-square Gustavian board.
- Brotherhood Chess. A piece cannot capture one of its own kind.
- Brouhaha. Preset for Brouhaha, a game that brings the ruckus!
- Building chess. Add a square after every move.
- Burmese Chess. Sittuyin preset uses a mix of equivalent pieces from Alfaerie Set.
- Butterfly Chess. Game with Butterflies (not Ns), Advancers (not Qs) & Flying Dragons added.
- Byelorussian Chesskers. Pieces promote to "Damkas" in this Chess Checkers Hybrid.
- Caïssa Britannia. Play this British-themed game with royal Queens plus Lions, Unicorns, and Dragons.
- Camel and Rhino Chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board with new pieces.
- Camel Decimal Chess. Game Courier preset for Camel Decimal Chess, a 10x10 chess with Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100)
- Camelrider Chess. P. Aronson's big-board variant with regular pieces and Camelriders.
- Cannon Shosu Shogi. Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons.
- Cannonrider Chess. The Cannonrider moves differently depending on square colour: on white squares as a Nightrider; else as a Chinese Cannon.
- Canyon Chess. Play this small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules!
- Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess.
- Capablanca's Chess. Play Capablanca's Chess on the Play-by-Mail system!
- Cardinal Chess. Just like the usual Western contemporary, only replacing Mad Queen with Bishop Knight compound.
- Castle Chess. As Fide-chess, but with extended castle: the king may jump three squares (with zrf).
- Cataclysm. Large board variant with exciting, strategical play, and many powerful short-range pieces.
- Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses!
- Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement.
- CCC - The Clash of Civilizations Chess. ...two Chess Armies made from (some of) the most popular pieces used in Western and Eastern Chess games.
- CCChess - shuffle version. A few different imaginings of CCChess.
- CDA Variant: Fighting Fizzies. Missing description
- CDA: Pizza Kings. Experimental CDA army, submitted half in jest, with pieces whose movement imitates their shape.
- Cellular Chess. Play Cellular Chess at Game Courier.
- Centaur Chess. All pieces except Pawns move backwards as a Knight.
- Centennial Chess. 10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix.
- Center of Attention. FIDE Chess but with an additional winning condition: Move your king unchecked into a center square.
- Cetina Random Chess. Missing description
- CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns.
- Champagne Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with ferfils and dragons added.
- Chasm Chess. Berolina Pawns, reflecting Bishop and Queen, and a chasm in the board!
- Chaturanga. Oldest known form of chess. (Recognized!)
- Checkers. The most popular game besides Chess played on the same board.
- Chesimals I. This game introduces "Chess Animals", independent groups of chess pieces that act as one large multi-square piece.
- Cheskers. Fun and simple crossover between chess and checkers invented by professor Solomon W. Golomb.
- Chess. Play Chess online with other people, using Game Courier, a PBM system that works with any web browser on any computer.
- Chess 1010. Game with 40 pieces.
- Chess 25 (Fischer Placement Chess). Swap king and/or queen before play begins. Follows FRC rules (with zrf).
- Chess 9x9. Exciting variant combining classical pieces with Amazons, Camels and Dragon Horses.
- Chess on a 12 by 12 board. Doug Vogel has placed the standard 32 chess pieces in the center of a 12x12 board.
- 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!
- Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. Play this 8x10 game with three new pieces.
- Chess on the Dot. Play this adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
- Chess on the Rainbows. Six different colors light up the board. You have to keep a piece on each color throughout...
- Chess on Two Boards. Chess on Two Boards.
- Chess vs checkers. Missing description
- Chess with Different Armies. A Ralph Betza personal favorite: Features series of armies with approximately the same strength as the FIDE army. (Recognized!)
- Chess with Extended Castle. Standard chess with extended castle rule, effectuating greater opening variance (with zrf).
- Chess with Extra Bishops. FIDE Chess with Extra Pair of Bishops that Start from Same Square.
- Chess with Promoters. Each player has a piece which may promote the pieces of his opponent.
- Chess with Terrain. Play Greg Strong's Chess with Terrain on Game Courier.
- Chess With Wizards. Chess with Wizards on the Game Courier.
- Chess100. Piece positions are modestly randomized according to Arrangement Chess rules, castling is retained (+ zrf).
- Chess256. The pawns are randomized on the 2nd and 3rd rank.
- Chess400. Piece setup is randomized according to Configuration Chess rules, producing 400 modest, mostly non-mirrored, positions (+ zrf).
- Chess484. Before play, certain pieces are regrouped, creating natural positions. Castling is retained (+ zrf).
- Chess64. The piece array is moderately randomized according to Relocation Chess rules, castling is retained.
- Chessgi. Play this hybrid of Chess and Shogi.
- Chieftain Chess. Large variant using 4 royal pieces with command control, multi-piece moves and pieces that may shift direction as they move.
- Chinese Chess. Play Xiang Qi, the Chinese form of Chess.
- Chinese court. Missing description
- Chogo-44. Game with pawns and kings with co-enclosure capture.
- Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144)
- Chu Shogi. Historic Japanese favorite, featuring a multi-capturing Lion.
- Circular Chess. PBM Preset for Circular Chess.
- Cleopatra Chess. Dan Troyka game, similar to Benedict Chess but with only one color-changing piece. Cleopatra "seduces" any piece she sees.
- Clockwork Orange Chess. Condition your opponent's pieces to be non-violent.
- Cobra Chess. Link featuring piece that occupies four squares at once, the cobra, moves like a rook but can leap over friendly pieces.
- Coherent Chess. Coherent Chess on the Game Courier.
- Colossus. 10x10 chess with 4 Rooks, 4 Knights, 4 Bishops, 10 Pawns, 1 Queen and 1 King!
- Commodore Chess. Featuring the Commodore piece (also called Leo) on a Gustavian board.
- Compound Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Sergeant pawns & armies of compound pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80)
- Compton Medieval Chess. Large variant with three new pieces.
- Configuration Chess. King and queen swap with other pieces before play begins - enormous variety! (with zrf).
- Congo. Demian Freeling's Congo on the Game Courier.
- Connected Chess. Pieces are removed when they are no longer adjacent to any other piece.
- Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description
- Contramatic Chess. This king can walk right into check! The goal for this king is to get checkmated.
- Corral Chess.. Force the opponent to the center in this 45/46 Cell Contest entry.
- Corridor Chess. FIDE but subtracting rook pawns and setting pieces up in house in middle.
- Courier Chess. A large historic variant from Medieval Europe.
- Courier-Spiel. More modern version of Courier Chess, with Queen added.
- Crab Chess (Chess4). Blocked flank pawns are have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf).
- Crazy 38's. Ben Good's Crazy 38's on the Game Courier.
- Crazyhouse. Play this two-player version of Bughouse. (Recognized!)
- Critters: Chesimals III. Chesimals redesigned.
- Cube Shogi. Shogi with cube-shaped pieces.
- Culverin Chess. The Culverin is a cannon that can move like a king but must jump to capture (+zrf).
- Cylindrical Chess. Sides of the board are supposed to be connected.
- Dada. The colorbound chess variant.
- Dai Seireigi. Variant of Dai Shogi playable with drops. (15x15, Cells: 225)
- Decima. Variant on 10 by 10 board where you win when you have 10 points on the 10th row.
- Delegating Chess. 84 square variant in which pieces delegate moving powers.
- Delta88 Chess. trigonal chess using an hexagonal-lattice board.
- Demi Chess. Weak short range pieces with less symmetry than some more familliar pieces.
- The Demon Game. 10 x 10 game with extra Capablanca pieces.
- Deneb. Now you can play Deneb on the Play-By-Mail system!
- Deneb Play-By-Mail game. Observe this game being played in the Invent and Play contest! Turn 4.
- Descent Chess. Kaufmann's drop variant. Begins with only K + P + P. Recommendable!
- Desert Pub Chess. A game with Desert Ferz and Desert Wazirs which make muliple captures by jumping.
- Devingt Chess. Game Courier to play Devingt Chess, on a 10x10 board with Sages (=Camels).
- Diamond Chess. Chess on a Diamond board.
- Dice Mate Chess. No capture; checkmate only happens if roll of the dice is favorable.
- Dimachaer Chess. The Dimachaer is a gladiator bifurcation piece that must collide to move (+zrf).
- Disintegration Chess. Pre-set for the game of disintegrating kings, rooks, fye'tins, and pawns.
- Displacement Chess 2. Chess with flexible castling, reverse symmetry and no opening theory.
- DoGod Random. Pawns and pieces dispersed on first and second ranks.
- Doppelganger BordahBee. A combination of BordahBee and Doppelganger Chess.
- Doppelganger Chess. Pieces have their "doubles" (Doppelgangers). Capture an opponent's piece to make both disappear... uses a FIDE chess set.
- Double Chess. FIDE Chess x 2(with extra queen replacing what would be an extra king).
- Double Diamond. Pieces start diagonally across from one another and pawns move diagonally.
- Double Move Double Chess. Play this double move variant that uses two Chess sets with Game Courier. (8x16, Cells: 128)
- Dr. Who Chess. Variant based on the popular TV seiries.
- Dragonet Chess. The Dragonet flies to any square queenwise, captures piece behind landing square (with zrf).
- Dragonfly. Christian Freeling's 7x7 Chessgi type variant. No Queens. Pawns don't drop.
- Dromedary Chess. Pieces adjacent to the King can leap like a Dromedary (Camel).
- Dual Chess. A more Chess-like variant featuring the Marshall and the Cardinal.
- Duel Chess. PBM Preset for 43-space variant played on two boards.
- Dueling Archbishops. Chess game with only six cells but with a piece that morphs into four different forms.
- The Duke of Rutland's Chess. Missing description
- Dynamo Chess. Preset for Dynamo Chess.
- Each Piece Once Chess. Each turn, move as many as all your pieces, but only once!
- Ecumenical Chess. Ecumenical Chess features three variants with camel-bishop, camel-rook knight-camel compounds.
- Eight-Stone Chess. Players can move neutral stones as well as pieces.
- Elephant Chess. Featuring the time-honoured Burmese Elephant.
- Elephant Hunt. Ituri Forest Pygmi traditional game with chess-like elements.
- Elite Chess. Elite Chess adds an Amazon to Capablanca's Game by adding one more row to the board.
- Elk Chess. The double-barrelled Elk moves differently depending on square colour.
- Elk Chess (with Scorpions). Poisonous Scorpion pawns combined with the restive Elk, that changes with the colour of the square.
- Elkrider Chess. Elkrider plus regular pieces. The Elkrider moves like a Nightrider if standing on white squares, otherwise it moves like a Rook.
- Elven Chess. Chu Shogi Lion, Dragon Horse, Dragon King, Guard on Grand Chess type setup.
- Embassy Chess. Play this modern Bird's Chess variant based on the setup of Grand Chess.
- En Passant Chess. All pieces have the en passant option. Koksal Karakus version.
- En Passant Chess of Ingo Althofer. This is just FIDE Chess, but with board contracted by one row. Try it out.
- Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added.
- English Random Chess. Play this game with standard chessmen on a 10x10 board, with randomized piece setup.
- Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced.
- Episcopal Chess. Play this symmetric version of Chess online.
- Essedar Chess. The Essedar is a bifurcation piece that moves by colliding (+zrf).
- Euchess. Missing description
- Eurasian Chess. Synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess.
- ExCoCo Chess. Missing description
- Existentialist Chess. Play this game on a 10x10 board with many different pieces.
- Expanded Chess. 100 square chess with complementary pieces.
- Extinction Chess. Win by capturing every piece of the same type. (Recognized!)
- Extra Move Chess. Move twice per turn with Extra Move Chess.
- Extrapawn Chess. Standard chess with one extra pawn per player in the reserve (with zrf).
- Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidally interwoven board using same number of squares and pieces as FIDE Chess.
- Falcon Chess. Play Falcon Chess on Game Courier!
- Falcon Chess RFNB. Falcon Chess with a new setup.
- Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Hex Falcon on the Game Courier.
- Falcon King Chess. A shortrange variant on an 8x8 board featuring a pair of royal Falcons.
- Fantastic XIII. This is the G.C. preset for Fantastic XIII, a bizarre CV,13 types of pieces on 13x13 board.
- FIDE Frolic. FIDE chess, but with each piece able to leap.
- 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".
- Fighting Kings. Fighting Kings cannot be checked or checkmated; but a Royal Pawn can.
- 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.
- Fischer Random Chess. Play Bobby Fischer's randomized Chess variant on Game Courier. (Recognized!)
- Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces are external and can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf).
- Fluid Chess. Pieces can move into (or through or out of and into again) friendly pieces ("into" up to compounds).
- Fool's Hexagonal Chess Courier Preset. Missing description
- Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board.
- Fugue. Based on Ultima and Rococo this game has pieces that capture in unusual ways.
- Fusion Chess. Play this variant in which pieces combine and split apart.
- Fusion Diamond 41. A Fusion Chess variant played on a diamond shaped board of 41 squares.
- Futashikana Shogi. Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board.
- Gala. Historical German variant from the Middle Ages.
- Gamma2 Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Berolina Pawns & special Ship & Archer pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80)
- Gast's Chess. Large 1969 variant using the Cardinal (Guard) and the Chancellor (Archer).
- General and Arch-General Chess. Variations of Bird's Chess.
- 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.
- Gigachess II. Evolution of Gigachess. 24 different types of pieces on a 14 x 14 board.
- goChess. goChess.
- Golden Age Chess on a Really Big Board. Play this 16 x 16 variant with several different pieces.
- Gorgona Chess. V. R. Parton's Gorgona paralyzes enemy pieces so they can't move (with zrf).
- Grand Betza. Play Grand Betza on Game Courier.
- Grand Cavalier Chess. Decimal variant with Cannons and Cavalier Chess pieces.
- Grand Chess. Decimal variant with Cardinals and Marshalls.
- Grand Combination Courier. Game with Compounds of Elemental (Atomic) FIDE Pieces Plus Camel, with Mostly Logical Promotions.
- Grand Rider Chess. If you love riders, you'll love Grand Rider Chess, which combines several different colorbound and non-colorbound riders.
- Grand Shatranj. Grand Shatranj.... extends the examination of short-range leapers by looking at another 2-square jumper and 2 short-range riders.
- Grand Tamerlane Chess. Variation of Mideast Chess by John Davis.
- 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.
- Grande Acedrex. Missing description
- Grant Acedrex. Game Courier preset for Grant Acedrex with enforced rules. (12x12, Cells: 144)
- Grasshopper Chess. Each player has eight additional grasshoppers.
- GraTiA. Preset for GraTiA, a blend of two historic variants.
- Great Chess. An Indian/Turkish and very playable historic variant on a 10 by 10 board.
- Great Shatranj. What if chess evolved differently so short-range pieces became more powerful by gaining additional short-range moves?
- Gross Chess. Play this 144 square variant online with Game Courier.
- Gryphon Aanca Chess. Large variant with Gryphons, Aancas, and a few other not-so-common pieces.
- Gunnery Chess. Cannon pawns can leap over friendly piece and explode an enemy piece on the same file.
- Gunnery Chess (8x10). Cannon pawns can leap over friendly piece and explode an enemy piece on the same file. Regular pieces plus Mastodons.
- Gunnery Chess (with Scorpions). The Scorpion pawns have the additional capability of cannon-like moves. Very advanced. Only recommendable to grandmasters!
- Gustav III's Chess. Invented by King Gustav III of Sweden (1746-92).
- Gustavian Camelrider Chess. Camelriders and regular pieces on a Gustavian (68squares) board.
- Gustavian Cannonrider Chess. Cannonriders and regular pieces on a Gustavian (68 squares) board. Cannonriders move differently depending on square colour.
- Gustavian-Camelrider Chess (with Scorpions). Camelriders and Scorpions on a 68 square Gustavian board.
- Gustavian-Cannon Chess. The Swedish Cannon moves like a Korean Cannon, but can move like a rook if it cannot jump (+zrf).
- 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.
- Half Courier. Missing description
- Hanga Roa. Play Hanga Roa on Game Courier!
- Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board.
- Heavy Chess. Play Heavy Chess on Game Courier.
- 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.
- Heavy Shako. 10x10 variant inspired by Yangsi, made by Eric Silverman. (10x10, Cells: 100)
- Hectochess. 10x10 variant that can be played with 2 mismatched Chess sets.
- Henry VIII Chess Preset. This is the preset for Henry VIII Chess (unique take on Extinction Chess).
- Heroes Hex Chess version 2. Hexagonal Chess with new movement rules on a "standard" 91 hex board.
- Heroes Hexagonal Chess. Play this game from the 84-square contest on the Play-By-Mail system!
- Hex Dragonal Chess. horizontal hex-rows and 4 defined directions of movement.
- Hex Shogi 41. Hexagonal shogivariant on board with 41 spaces.
- Hex Shogi 81. A hexagonal Shogi variant on an 81-space board.
- Hex Shogi 91. A hexagonal Shogi variant on a 91-space board.
- Hexagonal Chess (Glinski). Chess on a board made out of hexagons. (Recognized!)
- Hexagonal Chess (McCooey). Chess on a board, made out of hexes. (Recognized!)
- Hexcetran Chess. Play Hexcetran Chess at Game Courier.
- Hexes Chess. Hexes Chess now available for play on the Game Courier!
- Hexetera. Play Hexetera on the Game Courier!
- Hexmate. A two-player variant on a hex board made up of 127, 3-color hexagons.
- Hiashatar. Mongolian Decimal Chess.
- Hindustani Chess. 19th century Indian game.
- Hole Chess. Variant on a board of 44 squares with two holes that pieces can be dragged into.
- Hopper Chess (with Scorpions). Pieces standing before friendly pieces can jump over enemy Scorpion pawn and land directly behind it.
- Hopper-Chess. Pieces in front of friendly pieces can land immediately behind enemy pawns.
- Hopper-Elk Chess. Pieces can hop over an enemy pawn and land directly behind it. The Elk moves differently depending on square colour.
- Hostage Chess. Play this Chessgi-like game in which no pieces change sides. (Recognized!)
- House of 10 Mirrors - H o M Variant. Reflective pieces from up to 10 mirrors add to offense and defense.
- 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.
- Hubbub. Preset for Hubbub, a short-range version of Brouhaha.
- Hullabaloo. Fusion, fission game with drops, giant conglomerations and two types of activation.
- Hunt Chess. Huntsman Chess and Groundskeeper Chess.
- HyperModern Shatranj. Missing description
- 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.
- I-Chess. Play this 12x12 large board game with two new peices.
- Ibu Ibu Chess. Ibu Ibu Chess in which the king's entourage protects it from Ubi-Ubis.
- Ideal Chess. Uses compound pieces to mimic the use of cards.
- Imperial Chess. Play this large variant with new pieces and victory by capture of royal pieces!
- Imposter Chess. Play this game! Exchange captured pieces in order to move Kings in different ways.
- Improved Chess. An improvement of standard chess: a blocked pawn on the far side gets extra jump moves to empty squares (with zrf).
- Indistinguishable Chess. All pawns and pieces appear the same in color and size, for both sides. The board has no 'dark' squares.
- Interdependent Chess. A 42 square variant in which pieces borrow capturing ability from other pieces.
- Invasion. A military inspired Chess variant played on an 84-square board.
- Jacks and Witches. Play this variant on 84 squares with special pieces and special squares!
- Janus Kamil Chess. A crossover between Janus Chess and Modern Kamil Chess.
- Jester Chess. Featuring pieces that mimic last piece moved, archers that can either capture OR move. quadrapawns, and murray lions.
- Jetan. Play Edgar Rice Burrough's Jetan (Martian Chess).
- Jetan Jeddara. Large variant of Jetan.
- Jetan Sarang. Play this large variation of Jetan!
- Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10.
- Jumping Knights Chess. Nightriders replace Knights and War Machines have also been added to Jumping Chess.
- Jungles and Mountains Chess. Bull-Dozers must clear through jungle brush and Engineers must make passages through mountains to free up piece movement.
- Juxtaposition Chess. Normal moves, plus pawns switch places with stones; pieces switch places with flags.
- Kamikaze Mortal Shogi. Send your Kamikazes on suicide missions in this Shogi variant.
- King to Bunker Leap. Play this exciting version of Pre-Chess using new king safety rules.
- King's Guard Chess. Missing description
- King's Reincarnation. Captured Kings return to the board, but at a price.
- Kinglet. Play Kinglet, where you win by capturing all pawns.
- Kings. Kings on the Game Courier.
- Kings Reincarn. II - Altered States Variant. Captured Kings return to the board by replacing a friendly piece and moving as it did.
- Knight Court Chess. When you take an opponent's piece, he gets to drop it back on the board. Object: Checkmate knight.
- Knightmate. Play Knightmate, where you win by mating the Knight.
- Koksal Karakus' En Passant Chess -. All pieces have the en passant option. Koksal Karakus version.
- Korean Chess. Play Korea's regional Chess variant on Game Courier.
- Kozune. Missing description
- Kozune vs FIDE. Missing description
- Large Nahbi Chess. Preset for Large Nahbi Chess.
- Latrunculi duo milia et septum. Chess with rook/ferz & bishop/wazir substitutes for rooks and bishops.
- Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move.
- Leapers Chess. Decimal variant with additional leaping abilities for each of the pieces.
- Leapers Creeepers. Featuring compound long leapers of giraffes, zebras and camels.
- Lemurian Shatranj. Lemurian pieces which utilize either or both types of their possible moves, possibly changing direction after the first.
- Lines of Relay. The addition of a piece - the "Lore Apprentice" adapted from the Querquisite. "LoR(e)" stands for Lines of Relay.
- Lions and Unicorns Chess. Play this large Chess variant with Lions and Unicorns.
- Little River Chess. 46 Cell game with Chinese Chess influence. Kings confined to palaces.
- Little Trio. Missing description
- Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take.
- Losing Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins.
- Maasai Chess. Play Maasai Chess with Game Courier.
- Maces and Horse-apults. Similar to chess, but on a 10 x 10 board and the addition of Maces and Horse-apults.
- Maces, Horse-apults, and Tulpas. Maces and Horse-apults with user-created Tulpa pieces.
- Maces, Shields, and Horse-apults. Like Maces and Horse-apults, but pawns are protected from Mace capture.
- Macrochess. Missing description
- Mad Chess (Steel=White). Chess variant with unequal armies on 10 by 10 board.
- Mad Chess (Stone=White). Chess variant with unequal armies on 10 by 10 board.
- Mad Elephant Chess. Missing description
- Mad Queen Shogi. Play this new Chess/Shogi hybrid on Game Courier.
- Magicpawns Chess. Any piece can move to friendly pawn and change place with it. Pawns thus become more dynamic and pieces less constrained.
- Mainzer Schach. 11 x 8 variant with two Januses and one Marshall, and different setup.
- Makruk. Play the traditional Chess variant of Thailand on Game Courier.
- Mamra Chess. Adds the Mamra, a piece that only Pawns may capture.
- Marseillais Chess. Move twice per turn. (Recognized!)
- Mastodon Chess. Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant.
- Mastodon Chess (8x10). Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant.
- Maxima. Play Maxima, an interesting and exiting variant of Ultima, with new elements that make Maxima more clear and dynamic.
- Mayhem Chess. Different pieces and setup.
- Medusa Shogi. A Shogi variant of Pillars of Medusa, which is based on Turkish Great Chess.
- Mesmer Chess. Introduces a new piece, the mesmerist, which can control how opposing pieces move.
- Metamachy. Play this large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces.
- Metamorph Chess. Play this variant in which pieces frequently promote or demote.
- Meteoric Chess. A sober but lively drop chess variant with standard pieces (zrf available).
- Mighty Lion Chess. Orthodox Western Chess but with one knight replaced by Chu Shogi Lion.
- Millennium Chess Preset. This is the preset for Millennium Chess.
- Miller's Spherical Chess. Play this early adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
- Mimic Chess. Chess on a larger board with 3 new pieces with constantly changing movement capabilities.
- Mini Hexchess. McCooey's Hexagonal Chess on smaller board.
- Mini Thunder Chess. A small-scale hybrid of Metamorph Chess, Fusion Chess, and Assimilation Chess.
- Mir Chess. Play this variant that is mid-powered between Chess and Shatranj.
- Mitsugumi Shogi. Smaller variant of Suzumu Shogi on a 13x13 board. (13x13, Cells: 169)
- Moderate Progressive Chess. A player may move one more piece than his opponent just moved.
- Modern Capablanca Random Chess. Missing description
- Modern Carrera's Chess. Play this modern version of Carrera's Chess on Game Courier.
- Modern Chess. Play on Game Courier.
- Modern Courier Chess. Missing description
- Modern drunk elephant shogi. Missing description
- Modern Kamil. Game Courier preset for Modern Kamil, a game from Nuno Cruz with Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100)
- Modern Makruk. A fusion of Modern Chess and Makruk.
- Modern Random Chess. Missing description
- Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj.
- Modern Shatranj D & R. Missing description
- Monkey King Chess. Monkey King fights Goblin King on 44 squares board in game with oriental influences.
- More 10. Chessvariant on a board with 10 squares.
- Mortal Chessgi. Play this Chessgi variant in which each capture decreases material.
- Mortal Shogi. Play this Shogi variant in which pieces may die.
- Motorotor. Play this small variant with a rotating board.
- MRC64. Modern Random Chess 64.
- Multimove FIDE Chess. Each turn utilizes a number of points that get applied to movement.
- Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Variant where you can only checkmate or be checkmated on move 10, 20, 30, ect..
- Musketeer Chess. A game that adds extra pieces to Chess, playable online with Game Courier.
- Mystery Chess. An imperfect information variant you can play online with Game Courier.
- Mythical Fantasy Conquest. Play this large variant with new fantasy pieces!
- Nadvorney's Spherical Chess. Play Nadnorney's adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
- Nahbi Chess. Preset for Nahbi Chess.
- Napoleonic Chess. Large chess variant with the `spirit of the Armies of the Napoleonic period'.
- Naydorian Chess. an hexagonal variant from the fictional realm of Shadowgard.
- Near Chess Preset. This is the preset for Near Chess.
- Net Chess. Variant of InterGrid Chess. Move between intersections.
- Neutral King Chess. V.R. Parton's game where two armies share a King both must try to mate.
- New Chess. Drop-chess with pawn relocation. Standard pieces and rules. Ideal for avoiding opening theory.
- Nilakantha's Intellectual Game. 17th or 18th century Indian chess variation.
- Nine-Queen Chess. Queens are placed instead of Pawns.
- Ninth Century Indian Chess. Differs from Shatranj in the setup and the Elephant's move.
- Nonary Chess. King or queen are optionally swapped with a bishop before play begins (with zrf).
- Nuclear Chess. Play Nuclear Chess on the Play-By-Mail System!
- Nuclear Chess Play-By-Mail game. Examine this game!
- Nutty Shogi. Smaller version of Tenjiku Shogi on a 13x13 board.
- Oblong Chess 44. Based on the original oriental variant "Oblong Chess", a 16X4 Shataranj variant, but reducing the number of lines.
- Odin's Rune Chess. With pieces that were inspired by rune images and meanings....
- Omega Chess. This preset for Omega Chess enforces the rules and spots check, checkmate, and stalemate.
- Opulent Lemurian Shatranj. Joe Joyce's Shaman and Hero pieces are on a large board.
- Orphic Chess. Before the King is dropped the pieces can only capture. A very tactical and fast variant.
- Orphic Chess (with Elks). Before the King is dropped the pieces can only capture. A very tactical and fast variant, with Elks.
- Outback Chess. Play this game with new pieces on plus-shaped board. Winner of the 84-square contest!
- OverKnight Chess. Pawns are replaced by Knights, which promote.
- Oxybeles Chess. The Oxybeles can sling a piece to the farthest square in the movement direction (+zrf).
- Palace Ninja Guards. A pair of short-range diagonal leapers and four extra squares are added to the standard chessboard and pieces.
- Palace Revolution. Play this 44 square variant with Templar Knights and Squire Pawns with Game Courier.
- Paloma Chess. Game with Royal Queen, promotable Kings, and an unusual array.
- Panchimera. 33 pieces a side, includes all the knight augmented pieces.
- Parity Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with Champions and FADs added.
- Patchanka. This is the Game Courier preset for Patchanka, a variant with several bi-compound pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100)
- Paulovits's Game. Istv.
- Pawn Eaters. Win by capturing 8 pawns. Uses Shamanic Rooks, Pawn Eaters, Old Y Mover Elephants, and traditional Knights.
- Peasant Revolt. Modest variant with unequal setup.
- Pemba. Game Courier Preset to play Pemba, 60 pieces on the decimal board.
- Perfect Chess. Like Tutti Frutti Chess but with a different array.
- Pillars of Medusa. Play this variation of Turkish Great Chess with two additional pieces, the Morph and the Medusa, on Game Courier .
- PiRaTeKnIcS. Play this 44-squares chess variant in which pirates on ships fight each other on Game Courier.
- Placement Chess. King and queen are swapped before play begins, generating FRC subset (with zrf).
- Placement Random Chess (Chess 20). The piece setup is randomized following Placement Chess rules, generating 20 modest Fischer Random positions.
- 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.
- Polymorph Chess. Knights and Bishops can morph into each other or into combined pieces.
- Pompeii Chess. Small variant with piece drops, orthogonal pawn moves and one each of all the FIDE pieces.
- Pool Chess. Queens and Bishops bounce 90 degrees off the board edge.
- Presiding Chess. Decimal Variant combining a number of exotic pieces.
- Pretentious Chess. Pieces can move as and demote to a Knight.
- Prime Ministers Random Chess. Missing description
- Prime-Ministers Chess. Missing description
- Pseudo-Modern Random Chess. Missing description
- Pyrrhus Chess. The Pyrrhus moves like a king but paralyzes enemy pieces at queen's distance (with zrf).
- Quake Chess. Quake Chess on the Game Courier.
- Queen of the Night Chess. An over powered game on the Standard Board.
- Queens or Castles. Wizards promote by making an opponent's piece [or pawn] and themself vanish from the board.
- Querquisite Chess. The Whimsical Querquisite on the Game Courier.
- Quinquereme Chess. Large variant with a new piece, the Quinquereme.
- Racing Kings. Missing description
- Randomscorpions Chess. The Scorpions are randomly distributed on the 2nd and 3rd rank. Otherwise regular setup.
- Ready Chess. Play this game, where pieces cannot capture right after capturing, they have to be restored first!
- Reformed Chess. Pawn can swap with an enemy piece located on the last rank, except king. Thusly, many more won endgames (zrf available).
- Regement Random Chess. Pieces are relocated to create a modest setup that most chessplayers will feel at home in (+ zrf).
- Regiment Chess. Black determines king position, white can swap the queen before play begins (with zrf).
- Relativistic Chess. http://www.chessvariants.org/boardrules.dir/relativistic.html.
- Relocation Chess. Swap a pair of your own pieces before you begin. With Fischer Random castling rules.
- Remote Sensing. 2 remote sensor pieces per side can mimic pieces on their current square color.
- Remote Sensing 8 x 8. An 8 x 8 version of Remote Sensing.
- Remote Sensing with On & Off-Board Detection. Special pieces mimic others, some on-board, some which have been captured.
- Replacement Chess. Replace your opponent's men on the board after you capture them.
- Reroute66. Play this adaptation of Chess to a 66 space board with some overlapping spaces. (10x8, Cells: 66)
- Revised Chess. A revision of Fide-chess: a pawn on the seventh rank can also capture forwards. Makes chess much less drawish (with zrf).
- Rifle Chess. Take a move to capture an enemy piece without moving the capturing piece.
- Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board (includes mirror array and Push-Pullyu variants).
- Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square.
- Rolling Kings. Play Rolling Kings online with Game Courier.
- Romanchenko's Chess. FIDE Chess trainer Romanchenko shifted the FIDE board in the middle to help his students think for themselves.
- Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines.
- Roswell Chess. Preset for alien game with abstract pieces that operate in unusual ways.
- Rotation Chess. Every ten moves, switch sides with your opponent. How might you prepare for the demise of the pieces you are playing?
- Royal CannonChess. Pieces next to the king can capture forwards by a cannon leap.
- Royal Court. Play Royal Court on Game Courier.
- 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!
- Royal Pawn Chess. Same as FIDE Chess, except the pawns in front of the kings are royal, meaning the object is to checkmate them and not the king.
- Royal Rumble. A 6 board all-out melee with random pieces, royals and starting positions.
- Ruddigore Chess. Play this Chessgi variant where you can capture your own pieces, and every other turn you must capture or sacrifice a piece!
- Ryugi. 10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider.
- Sac Chess. Play classical chess along with classical compound pieces: amazons, chancellors, archbishops...
- Sanctuary Chess. Archbishop and Swiss Guard replace Queen and King; no checkmate.
- Save the Standard. Missing description