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• Chess Variant Construction Set. Missing description Author: Fergus Duniho.

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• Fischer Random Chess. Play from a random setup. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Terumi Kaneyasu and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Robert J. Fischer.

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• Hostage Chess. Pieces taken are held hostage and can be exchanged against other pieces and then dropped. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) By John Leslie.

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• Magnetic Chess. Pieces that moved attract and repel pieces like magnets. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) By João Pedro Neto and Claude Chaunier.

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• 007 Chess. 007 Chess involves three move per turn, including one of your opponent's pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Edward Jackman.

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• 2 Pronged Chess. Each player makes "simultaneous" moves with 2 different pieces. By John Whelan.
• 4 Armies. Four traditional armies with cardinals face off on the corners. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Patrick Riley.

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• Alekhine Chess. Named in honor of Alexander Alekhine, World Chess Champion 1927-1935, 1937-1946. By Michael Wortley Nolan.
• Alliance Chess. Two boards, four players, team wins by checkmating the primary player. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Mark Liptak and Rick Babcock.
• Amoeba. Jim Aikin's Amoeba on the Game Courier. Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Jim Aikin.

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• Bank Chess. Regular Chess only Drops come from Pocketings. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
• Bank Chess . Put your assets on the bank for later use! 6 Variants. Author: Karl Scherer. Inventor: Karl Scherer and Denis van Straten.
• Bastardo. 4-player game.
• Bastardo. Cut-throat four-player variant. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Bastardo for President. Cut-throat four-player variant where one of your pieces is secretly President and thus royal. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Bastardo Hallowe'en. Halloween-themed cut-throat four-player variant. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Bedlam. Play this hybrid of Fusion Chess, Metamorph Chess, and Chessgi. By Fergus Duniho.
• Bedlam. A hybrid of Metamorphin' Fusion Chess and Chessgi. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Beirut Chess. One unit is secretly carrying a bomb. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jim Winslow.
• Besiege Chess. Each side has two sets of armies, the black ones are in the middle and whites on top and bottom. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
• Besiege Chess. Double height chess board, where black is surrounded by white. (8x16, Cells: 128) By Köksal Karakus.
• Betza's Flying Circus. 4 Levels but only four pieces of two kinds can move on three of the levels. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• The Black Ghost. Betzan attempt to remedy White's first move advantage in FIDE by giving Black a noncapturing but capturable teleporting piece. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Black Hole Chess. Pieces moved to the center four squares of the board fall into your hand. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
• Black Hole Chess. Game with missing center and two extra spaces just behind the kings. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
• Bomberman Chess. Two "bombs" and a "defuser" spice up this 10 x 8 game. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Brotherhood Chess. A piece cannot capture one of its own kind. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Gianluca Vecchi.
• Brotherhood Chess. A piece cannot capture one of its own kind. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Gianluca Vecchi.
• Brotherhood chess. Pieces cannot take pieces of the same type. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Alessandro Castelli. Inventor: Gianluca Vecchi.
• Brotherhood Chess . A piece cannot capture one of its own kind. Author: Marek14 . Inventor: Gianluca Vecchi.
• Bushi Shogi. Extremely small shogi variant played with cube pieces. Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Georg Dunkel.
• Bushi shogi. Shogi variant on a two-square board! Bushi means Samurai. By Georg Dunkel.

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• Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. By Fergus Duniho.
• Cavalier Chess. Play Cavalier Chess with Jocly. By Fergus Duniho.
• CDA: Meticulous Mashers. ...every piece very nearly matches the corresponding piece from FIDE-chess, both in value and in general characteristics. - RB. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• The Central Squares. 3d chess variant where all three levels share their central squares. (6x6x3, Cells: 100) By João Pedro Neto.
• Champion. Moves one orthogonally or jumps two orthogonally or diagonally. Author: Ben Good and Fergus Duniho.
• Chancellor Chess Variants, New. On 8 by 10 board with two `chancellors'. (10x8, Cells: 80) By David Paulowich.
• chass. www.chass.info. By peter kirk.
• Chess 960. Randomized setup; also known as Fischer Random Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Robert J. Fischer.
• Chess Contradance. Move pieces to the other side of the board without attacking each other. By Karen Robinson.
• Chess for Three. Traditional pieces, three players, on a triangular board. By James Killian Spratt.
• Chess on a 12 by 12 board. Doug Vogel has placed the standard 32 chess pieces in the center of a 12x12 board. Author: David Paulowich. Inventor: Doug Vogel.
• Chess on a Really Big Board. Game that introduced rose and knight-camel-zebra... Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Chess Variant Construction Set. Missing description Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Chess with Different Armies: Cylindrical Cinders. Ralph Betza variant, in which the White Pieces have the advantage of treating the board cylindrically. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Chex. Cards with pieces form the board. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: David L. Smith.
• Chex: photo's. Photo's of a chess variant formed of cards with chess piece symbols. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: David L. Smith.
• Clockwork Orange Chess. Captured pieces are replaced with non-capturing counterparts. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Clockwork Orange Chess. Condition your opponent's pieces to be non-violent. By Fergus Duniho.
• Cobra Chess. Link featuring piece that occupies four squares at once, the cobra, moves like a rook but can leap over friendly pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Derick Peterson.
• Cobra Chess . Variant on 10 by 10 board with new pieces, including the Cobra. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Derick Peterson.
• Coffee Chinese Chess. A freeware Java applet for playing Chinese Chess. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Pham Hong Nguyen.
• Coherent Chess. Coherent Chess on the Game Courier. Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Carlos Cetina.
• Color Chess. Freeware program playing variant on 36 colored squares. By Maarten Bodlaender.
• Corner Chess. Two or four player chess variant on 8 by 8 board with pieces starting in the corners. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rich Hutnik.
• Cowardly Crew. After a capture, adjacent pieces can change sides. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Terry H. Jones.
• Crushed Chess. After every 10 turns, the perimeter disappears. Author: Ben M Reiniger.
• Cube Chess. Chess board is a cube with 4 playable sides, each with a 4x4 grid. (4x4x4, Cells: 64) By Robert J. Bell.

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• Dabbaba. Freeware program playing chess and a number of chess variants. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Jens Baek Nielsen. Inventor: Jens Baek Nielsen.
• Dark Chess variants. Possible other rules for Dark(ness) Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Dennis Merritt and Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Dennis Merritt.
• Demi Chess. Weak short range pieces with less symmetry than some more familliar pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Diamond Chess II. Game on diamond-shaped board with 98 triangular cells. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Bart D. Follis and James G. Chapman.
• Diffusion Chess. Creative attempt by Alexander Munoz to combine Chess and Go. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Alexandre Muñiz.
• Diplomatic Chess. The Diplomat replaces the King. (8x8, Cells: 64) and Derrick Fernandez.
• Double Chess. FIDE Chess x 2(with extra queen replacing what would be an extra king). Author: Fergus Duniho and Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: David Short.
• Double EIGHTEEN-STONE chess. David Short combines his Double Chess with Jim Aikin's Eight-Stone Chess. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
• Dynamic Bastardo. Cut-throat four-player variant with free setup. Author: Ed Friedlander.

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• Echexs. Hexagonal variant for three or six players. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Echexs. Hexagonal variant for three players. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Eight-Stone Chess. Players can move neutral stones as well as pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
• Elevator. Three-dimensional chess variant with moving elevators and walking, vaulting and flying pieces. (8x8x4, Cells: 192) By Ben Good.
• Elevator. Three-dimensional chess variant with moving elevators and walking, vaulting and flying pieces. Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Ben Good.
• Eric's Great Chess. Eric Greenwood shortens by two rows the familiar ancient Great Chess board. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Euchess. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
• Express Chess. Information on commercial chess variant with cards instead of board and pieces. () Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Bill Jemas.

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• Falcon Random Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By George William Duke.
• Feudal Chess. A 12x10 themed chess with variable armies. (12x10, Cells: 120) By Rupert Hickton.
• Fidchell. Gary Gygax's Fidchell. Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Gary Gygax.
• Fidchell. A large Great Chess variant with blended historical elements, invented for an RPG. (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Glenn Overby II. Inventor: Gary Gygax.
• Fischer Random Chess. Play from a random setup. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Terumi Kaneyasu and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Robert J. Fischer.
• Fischer Random Chess . David A. Wheeler's page on Fischer Random Chess. Author: David A Wheeler. Inventor: Robert J. Fischer.
• Fischer Random Chess. Play Bobby Fischer's randomized Chess variant on Game Courier. (Recognized!) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Robert J. Fischer.
• Floßschach. Part of the board is a lake, where rafts can transport pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jörg Knappen.
• Four Handed Roman Chess. 4 player chess variant with additional new piece. By Mark Woodall.
• Fusion Chess. Variant in which pieces may merge together or split apart. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
• Fusion Chess. Play this variant in which pieces combine and split apart. By Fergus Duniho.

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• Gadsden's Toroidal Chess. Edges of the board are considered to be adjacent. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Richard Gadsden.
• Ganymede Chess. Mark Hedden's idea for "a large chess variant with many weird pieces...which wouldn't seem too different from orthodox chess". Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Mark Hedden.
• Gess. Combines GO with Chess: Invention of Archimedeans Mathematics Society, discussed by Ian Stewart in Scientific American. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Archimedeans Mathematics Society.
• 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. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
• A Glossary of Basic Chess Variant Terms. Missing description Author: John William Brown and The Chess Variant Pages.
• Grand Cavalier Chess. Play Grand Cavalier Chess with Jocly. By Fergus Duniho.
• Grand Cavalier Chess. The decimal version of Cavalier Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Fergus Duniho.
• Gufuu Shogi . Tiny variant on a 2x3 board with four pieces. By Georg Dunkel.
• Guide des échecs exotiques et insolites. French book describing many variants of chess. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.

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• Hammer Chess. FIDE but with gnus instead of knights, cardinals instead of bishops and enhanced pawns. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
• Hex Shogi 41. Hexagonal shogivariant on board with 41 spaces. By Fergus Duniho.
• Hex Shogi 91. A hexagonal Shogi variant on a 91-space board. By Fergus Duniho.
• Hexofen. 91-cell hexagonal variant with three knights and parallel pawn rows. Author: Daniil Frolov.
• Hockey Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Chuck S Smith.
• Hostage Chess. Pieces taken are held hostage and can be exchanged against other pieces and then dropped. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) By John Leslie.
• Hydra Chess . Captured pieces return. Regrown pieces will be of lesser value. By Karl Scherer.

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• Imperial Chess. Large variant with new pieces and victory by capture of royal pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) By James Killian Spratt.
• Imperial Chess. Play this large variant with new pieces and victory by capture of royal pieces! Author: Tony Quintanilla and James Killian Spratt. Inventor: James Killian Spratt.
• Imperial Chess III. Four-player all-against-all game on a cross-shaped board. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Mike Calkoviks and Jeff Knight.
• Inverse Capture Chess . Pieces are captured the way they move. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Ralph Betza.

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• Jester Chess. Featuring pieces that mimic last piece moved, archers that can either capture OR move. quadrapawns, and murray lions. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Thomas Havel.
• Jetan Sarang. Play this large variation of Jetan! Author: James Killian Spratt and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: James Killian Spratt.
• Jetan-Sarang . A large variation of Jetan. By James Killian Spratt.
• Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10. By Peter Aronson.
• Jupiter (Revised). Missing description (16x16, Cells: 256) By Adrian King.

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• Karma Chess . A piece that has captured an opponent's piece is turned into one of better quality. By Karl Scherer.
• Kilyow. Invented by Furugouri Akio(古郡章雄) in 1991. By Yu Ren Dong.
• Konigsritter. Four-player game on curiously-shaped board with one player having a different army than the others. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Albert Buttner.
• Koopa Chess. Form of chess based on the Mario Brothers series of video games. (8x8, Cells: 64) Inventor: Ralph Betza.

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• Ladder Chess. Non-competing 40 Square contest entry with scaling board. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
• Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. By Tony Quintanilla.
• Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. Author: John Smith. Inventor: Christian Freeling.

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• Mad King Chess . Missing description By Larry L. Smith.
• Mad King Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
• Magic Carpet Chess. Each player has a magic carpet to move a non-King to any empty square on the board. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Denis van Straten and Karl Scherer.
• Magnetic Chess. Pieces that moved attract and repel pieces like magnets. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) By João Pedro Neto and Claude Chaunier.
• Magnetic Chess: 4 sample games. Missing description Author: Jim Aikin. Inventor: João Pedro Neto and Claude Chaunier.
• Martian Chess. Two or four player strategic game with chess elements played with Looney piramids. (4x8, Cells: 32) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Andrew Looney.
• Metamorph Chess. Play this variant in which pieces frequently promote or demote. By Fergus Duniho.
• Millennium Chess Preset. This is the preset for Millennium Chess. Author: Rich Hutnik.
• Millennium Chu Shogi . http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/MillenniumShogi.zip. By Yu Ren Dong.
• Mini Hexchess. McCooey's Hexagonal Chess on smaller board. Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Dave McCooey.
• Modern Carrera's Chess. Play Modern Carrera's Chess with Jocly. Author: Fergus Duniho and The Jocly Team. Inventor: Fergus Duniho and Sam Trenholme.
• Modern Carrera's Chess. Play this modern version of Carrera's Chess on Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Fergus Duniho and Sam Trenholme.
• Modern Courier Chess. Missing description Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Paul Byway.
• Modest Proposals - Various Authors. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Tony Paletta.
• Mouse and Elephant . Large variant of the Jungle game. Inventor: Ulrich Roth.

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• Nahbi Chess. Preset for Nahbi Chess. By Uri Bruck.
• Nana-Shogi. Shogi variant on a tiny board. By Georg Dunkel.
• Napoleonic Chess. Large chess variant with the `spirit of the Armies of the Napoleonic period'. Author: John Smith. Inventor: Tom Hartley.
• New Chancellor Chess Variants. On 8 by 10 board with two `chancellors'. (10x8, Cells: 80) By David Paulowich.
• No-Chess. Forbid one move to your opponent each turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Zoltan Blazsik and Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Zoltan Blazsik.
• Non-prise Chess. Queens, rooks, knights, and bishops cannot take each other. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Bruce Zimov.

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• Objective Bastardo. Cut-throat four-player variant where each player has a secret objective. Author: Ed Friedlander.
• Octahedral Chess. 3d-board in octahedral form. (x9, Cells: 340) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Michael D. Ward. Inventor: Michael D. Ward.

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• Patricia. On a 5 by 5 board, with drops and changing pieces. (5x5, Cells: 25) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Rob Nierse. Inventor: Rob Nierse.
• Perfect 12. 12 different kinds of pieces on a 12 x 12 board: Is 12 "more perfect" than 10? Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Perfect Chess. Like Tutti Frutti Chess but with a different array. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
• Pillars of Medusa. A variation of Turkish Great Chess plus two additional pieces, the Morph and the Medusa. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Pillars of Medusa . Download Pillars of Medusa for Zillions of Games! Author: Jason Jakupca. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Pillars of Medusa. Play this variation of Turkish Great Chess with two additional pieces, the Morph and the Medusa, on Game Courier . Author: Tony Quintanilla and Gary K. Gifford. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Power Chess 1998. Taken pieces can reenter. (5x7, Cells: 39) By Ronald Hoekstra.
• Pre-Grandchess. Eric Greenwood realized that Christian Freeling's Great Chess could have arisen with this more normal looking position. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Eric V. Greenwood.

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• Raft Chess. Part of the board is a lake, where rafts can transport pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jörg Knappen.
• Re. Drop pieces on a 5 by 5 board. By (zzo38) A. Black.
• Recruiter Chess. Capturer recruits on adjacent squares. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Terry H. Jones.
• Recycle Chess. Players can capture and drop their own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Robert Huber.
• Recycle Chess. You may capture your own units and replace them on the board. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Robert Huber.
• Reform chess. Book on chess on smaller boards with many training positions. Author: Laszlo Polgar.
• Renezan's Chess . Proprietary game, Bi Triad, 1993. Inspired by Wildebeest Chess. Author: Yu Ren Dong. Inventor: BiTriad.
• Renezans Chess. Proprietary game, 9x9, in which the occupant of the center. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: BiTriad.
• Retrochess. Play chess from the end of the game backwards. (8x8, Cells: 64) By João Pedro Neto and Ralph Betza.
• River Chess . Get one of your pieces to the other side of the board. By Karl Scherer.
• River Chess. Win by getting a piece to the opposite side. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
• Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• The Royal Standard. Highly original game that introduced the famous windmill piece! Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Alexandre Muñiz.

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• Scirocco (revised) . On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces. By Adrian King.
• Scirocco (revised). On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Adrian King.
• Sentai Chess. Chess variant inspired by Power Rangers; precursor to Fusion Chess. By Fergus Duniho.
• Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Sissa Chess. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
• The Sons of Mithra. Elaborate Fantasy variant with 13 different types of pieces per side. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Michael Chang Gummelt. Inventor: Michael Chang Gummelt and Holly Gummelt.
• The Sons of Mithra. Computer program for playing fantasy variant. Author: Michael Chang Gummelt. Inventor: Michael Chang Gummelt and Holly Gummelt.
• Star Trek 3D Chess for Tournaments. A variation of Star Trek 3D Chess designed for tournament play. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jens Meder and Andrew Bartmess.
• Super Chess 1993. Missing description (14x14, Cells: 196) Author: Sam Trenholme. Inventor: Michael N Goldshteyn.
• Superchess by Lim Ther Peng. Information on a book on a large chess variant. Inventor: Lim Ther Peng.
• Symmetric Sissa. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
• Symmetric Sissa. Variant on 9 by 9 board with symmetric setup and two Sissa's (generalized Knight-like sliders). (9x9, Cells: 81) By Carlos Cetina.

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• Tamerlane II. Cazaux's modern take on Tamerlane Chess. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Three Player Hex Shogi 91. a hexagonal Shogi variant for three players. (Cells: 91) By Fergus Duniho.
• Traitor Chess. Some of your pieces are traitors and can suddenly be controlled by your opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: João Pedro Neto and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: João Pedro Neto.
• Transporter Chess. In addition to the usual set of pieces, players have a transporter piece, which can transport pieces one square in any direction. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Torben Osted.
• Treyshah. A commercial three-player hexagonal variant with 23 pieces a side. (Cells: 210) By Matt Seabury.
• Triangle Chess. Chess for three players. (Cells: 144) By David Zitzelsberger.
• Troitzky Chess. Troitzky Chess by Paul Byway, standard pieces on irregular board (with zrf). Author: M Winther. Inventor: Paul Byway.
• Troitzky Chess. Where the mate by two knights is possible. Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Paul Byway.
• Two Pronged Chess. 2 "simultaneous" moves per turn with separate pieces. By John Whelan.
• Typhoon (Revised) . Missing description By Adrian King.
• Typhoon (Revised). Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) By Adrian King.

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• Unicorn Chess. Unicorn Chess with one queen, two cardinalriders and two marshalls. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Paulowich.

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• Vortex Chess. Similar to Warp Point Chess only with "portals" that are more dynamic and split between the two players... Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Robert LeRoy.

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• Wild Tamerlane Chess. This variant replaces a couple weaker pieces from Tamerlane II with stronger queen and griffin pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Wildebeest Chess. Stars the Wildebeest which moves as knight or camel. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: R. Wayne Schmittberger.
• Wormhole Chess. When a piece leaves a square, it `folds' together. By Fergus Duniho.
• Wuji Chinese Chess. Invented by Zheng Lei(鄭磊,河南光山縣人) in 1993. Author: Yu Ren Dong. Inventor: Zheng Lei.

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• Xhess. Decimal variant using nightriders, special lame knight pawns, cannons and rooks. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Howe.
• XYMYX. Link to site where you can play this game! Inventor: Javier Ignacio Lizarzaburu.
• XYMYX. Players make their moves at the same time. (8x8, Cells: 64) Inventor: Javier Ignacio Lizarzaburu.

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• Zebulon. German commercial game with bluffing with chess pieces and connection forming. (7x7) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Herbert Schuetzdeller.
• Zillions of Games. It can play an endless variety of abstract board games, and we have a large collection of Chess variants you can play on it. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler.

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