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3to2. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Stephane Burkhart.
4-by-1 Knot Chess. Four lines in a 4D space meet at a central cell. (Cells: 65) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.

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A Chaturanga Problem by Bas de Haas. Mate in two moves, following Chaturanga rules. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Bas de Haas.
Abalonian Chess. johnnyluken. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Johnny Luken.
Against the Odds. Missing description (16x16, Cells: 256) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Alien and Predators Symmetric. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
All-round King. Things you must do with the king changes during the game: normal king transfors into ani-king and others. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
AltOrth with Hopping and Crooked pieces. Extending the AltOrth interpretation of hex cells to further variants. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
Amalgamated Chess. Incorporates some aspects of historical variants, but uses only usual equipment. (8x8, Cells: 64) By James Gryphon.
Atom Smasher Chess. Missing description (3x6x3, Cells: 54) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.

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Backgammon Chess. Play backgammon and chess game together. (8x8, Cells: 88) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Bandit Chess. Missing description (9x7, Cells: 63) By Patrik Hedman.
Barca. Twelve animals fight over watering holes in nice looking commercial game. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Andrew Caldwell.
Battle of the Diagonals. Each player uses the three kinds of diagonal in different ways. (9x9x6, Cells: 270) By Charles Gilman.
Battle of the Six Armies. Multiplayer with a trigonal board. (29x18, Cells: 378) By Graeme C Neatham.
BigBangChess . Chess with an expanding and contracting board. By Graeme C Neatham.
BigBangChess. Pieces start off-board; the board expands and contracts during play. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Graeme C Neatham.
Builder chess. Introducing the Builder. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Hafsteinn Kjartansson.
Burden of the royality. Inspired by Evolution Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.

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CCC-FF . Missing description By Namik Zade.
CCC-FF(updated) with zrf.file. Missing description By Namik Zade.
CCChess new generations. Missing description By Namik Zade.
CCChess-FF(In-Yan variant). Missing description By Namik Zade.
Chaotic Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
Checkers with Bosses. Checkers variant with different types of pieces. Game's main feature are Bosses. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Chess 256. The Chess experience upscaled to a larger board. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Johnny Luken.
Chess 911. 9x9 board plus corner squares, compounds, and special diagonals. (9x9, Cells: 85) By Persian Chess.
Chess Variant Score Notation Book. Chess score notation book for 100 square chess variants. By Simon Edward Jepps.
Chess Variants, 50 variants on the game of chess. Information on a book. Author: Adrey Caljé.
Chess Wars 1- The Party. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Chess Wars 2.1- Cyberwar. Missing description (7x7, Cells: 49) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Chess Wars 2.2- The Raid. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Chess Wars 3.1- Island Hopping. The long-awaited continuation of the Chess Wars series! (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Chess with wickets. The wicket is behind the King's 1. (8x8, Cells: 66) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Chess without pawns. Variant where only kings can take and no pawns are used. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Vladislav Rapetsky.
Chess without pawns . Variant where only kings can take and no pawns are used. Author: Mats Winther. Inventor: Vladislav Rapetsky.
Chesscala. Missing description (6x8, Cells: 48) By Francois Tremblay.
Chevron Ranks. Pieces use the "ranks" based on the Glinkshy/McCooey analogues to FIDE Pawn ranks. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
Christmas Tree Chess. Missing description (11x11x6, Cells: 126) By Daniil Frolov.
The Clash of Continents Chess . Missing description By Namik Zade.
Clear of knights chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
Command and Maneuver: A Tale of Two Countries. This is a diceless wargame,. (24x12, Cells: 288) By Joe Joyce.
The Concise Guide to Chess Variants. Missing description Author: David Howe.
Courier Eurasion Chess. Eurasian Chess meets Courier-Spiel. By Graeme C Neatham.
Crab Chess (Chess4). Blocked flank pawns are have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf). By M Winther.

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Dai Dai Shogi Western. Missing description (17x17, Cells: 289) Author: Christine Bagley-Jones and Eduard Werner.
Dracula and the Zombies. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Dragonet Chess. The Dragonet flies to any square queenwise, captures piece behind landing square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Droppable Xiangqi. Another variant of Xiangqi with droppable pieces. (10x9, Cells: 90) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Drunken Nights. A toned down version of the Nutty Knights for Chess with different Armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
Dunkeys . Missing description By Namik Zade.
Duplication Chess. Twice per game, move a piece with duplication. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Dynasty Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ben M Reiniger.

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Elven Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By H. G. Muller.
Expanded Chess 256. The Chess experience upscaled to a larger board. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Johnny Luken.
Expanded Chinese Chess. Missing description (9x12, Cells: 108) By Travis Z.

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Fairy Pieces Part 1. Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
File Sharing Chess. File Sharing, pawn swapping, always passed pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jeffrey T. Kubach.
Fimbriation Chess. Combines 4 players with 2-player Pawn treks and Castling. (14x14, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces are external and can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Flexible Chinese Chess (F-Xiangqi). Xiangqi variant where the horses are initially external (with zrf). By M Winther.
Flight and Ferry. The gold dragon of Wessex fights the red one of Wales across the Bristol Channel. (8x10, Cells: 80) By Charles Gilman.
Foolish King Chess. Missing description (10x8, Cells: 80) By Patrik Hedman.
fortress. Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Ben M Reiniger.
Frankenstein and the Werewolf. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.

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Ghostarelay. Game with ghost and relay, win if you have no legal moves. (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Good vs. Evil Chess. The epic struggle between good and evil, on a chessboard. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
A Grand Adventure. Missing description (100x100) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Grand Shatranj N W. Shatranj with 10 individual pieces + pawns per army. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Mark Simpson.

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If regular octogonal chess would be possible?. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Index A to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter A. By Charles Gilman.
Index B to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter B. By Charles Gilman.
Index C 1 to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter C followed by a-m. By Charles Gilman.
Index C 2 to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter C followed by o. By Charles Gilman.
Index D to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter D. By Charles Gilman.
Index E to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter E. By Charles Gilman.
Index F to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter F. By Charles Gilman.
Index G to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter G. By Charles Gilman.
Index H to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter H. By Charles Gilman.
Index I to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letters I to K. By Charles Gilman.
Index L to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter L. By Charles Gilman.
Index M to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter M. By Charles Gilman.
Index N to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter N. By Charles Gilman.
Index O to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letters O and Q. By Charles Gilman.
Index P to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter P. By Charles Gilman.
Index R to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter R. By Charles Gilman.
Index S 1 to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter S followed by A-I. By Charles Gilman.
Index S 2 to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter S followed by K-Y. By Charles Gilman.
Index T to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter T. By Charles Gilman.
Index U to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letters U and V. By Charles Gilman.
Index W to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letters W to Z. By Charles Gilman.
It is what it is chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
It's not a job for King. Two relatively modest games, playing with power and royality. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.

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Journalist's Chess. Journalist is movable to any position but no capture. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.

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King Friday XIII Chess. Flexible castling, promotion to opponent's pieces, etc. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Kira Chess/Kira Shogi. "Kira" and "L" pieces which is not known by your opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Knavish Chess. Variant using square-board analogues to 6-way hex-board Dabbabas. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Gilman.
Knavish Shatranj. Shatranj with Knaves and Debtors. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
Kozune Western . Missing description Author: Christine Bagley-Jones and Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Joshua Morris.

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Ladies and Generals. Missing description (6x9x6, Cells: 324) By Charles Gilman.
Latrumcolorum Chess. Piece caught between two opponent pieces is moved by him. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.

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Mad Elephant Shogi. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Mars. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Medieval Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Mega-rajah and the Super-sepoys. Large-board version of Maharajah and Sepoys with new pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Mighty-Lion Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
Minima. johnnyluken. (6x6, Cells: 64) By Johnny Luken.
Missionary cubic variants. Cubic-cell game with mixture of simple and compound forward-only pieces. (6x8x6, Cells: 288) By Charles Gilman.
MiTaWi. A variant combining elements on Mitregi, Taijitu Qi, and Wildeurasian Qi. (14x12, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
Mustang . Missing description By Namik Zade.

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Necromancer Chess. The Undead Walk. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
Neoteric Chess. Pieces are swapped before play begins. An external piece is introduced (with zrf). By M Winther.
Noble Wing Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mark Simpson.
Noble WingS Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mark Simpson.
Notake Shogi. All pieces stay on the Shogi board at all times. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Charles Gilman.
NWAPs. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.

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Panchimera. all the king's horses - a variant that doubles the number of each FIDE piece and then adds the knight augmented pieces. (11x12, Cells: 132) By Graeme C Neatham.
Panchimera. 33 pieces a side, includes all the knight augmented pieces. By Graeme C Neatham.
Pawn Chess. Pawns promote to first piece captured by opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: (zzo38) A. Black.
Pawn Vault Chess. johnnyluken. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Johnny Luken.
Pawnier Chess. Missing description (11x9, Cells: 99) By Patrik Hedman.
Pawns-to-Kings Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
Plattraum. 2d variant which, like Raumschach in 3d, has three basic long-range pieces. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.

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Quarter Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.

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Recapturable Chess. Captured pieces belong to other player and then removed permanently. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Relay Chess. Pieces inherit the ability of friendly pieces they are in the attack range of. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Johnny Luken.
Retro Chess. A chess game progresses backwards from an empty board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mike Smolowitz.

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Sai squad. A very experimental army for Chess with different armies, featuring the Sai (Bishop-Quintessence compound). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
Schachen - Chess me. Commercial chess variant with board and pieces replaced by cards. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Heinrich Gumpler and Matthias Schmitt.
Secret Bombs Chess. Secret bombs with cards telling you where they are. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Seventeen Pawns. You can replace opponent's queen by nine pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Shogi WDA: Alquerque army. Experimental army, supposed to be played against standart Shogi army. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Daniil Frolov.
Side view chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Sonic the Hedgehog Chess Advanced version. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Sovereign Chess. Ten neutral armies can be activated on this 16 x 16 board. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Mark Bates.
Springboard. Missing description By Glenn Nicholls.
Stylish victory or stylish fail. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Suffix Index to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of suffixes used in the Man and Beast series. By Charles Gilman.
Super-Chess. www.oteroideas.com. By Superuser .
Superhero Chess. Major pieces are superheroes, pawns their (interchangeable) sidekicks. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Switch-Side Chain-Chess. Optionally swap sides with your opponent upon completing a "chain". (8x8, Cells: 64) By Azlan Iqbal.
Symmetric Monster Chess. Some pieces are single and some are double. (8x8, Cells: 72) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Symmetric Snark Hunting. Snark hunting game with symmetric positions. (6x11, Cells: 59) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Symmetric Unirexal Chess. Each player has a half of a king. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.

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A Tale of Two Countries. This is a small diceless wargame. By Joe Joyce.
Tandem-Pawn Chess. Pawns are tandems of two pawns, which can move or capture as a unit, or decouple into two pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Kenneth Regan.
TeX Chess . Chess program (including many variants) in TeX. By (zzo38) A. Black.
The Third Party. FIDE chess plus a third player with hidden assassins. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Throne Chess. Same game as chess, except playing K to K8 wins by Thronemate, too. By Kevin Pacey.
Throne Chess. Same game as chess, except playing King to K8 wins too, by Thronemate. By Kevin Pacey.
TigerMarks. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Glenn Nicholls.
TigerSquares - 80 & 100. Missing description (10x8, Cells: 80) By Glenn Nicholls.
Triagonal Chess. 3D with triagonal moves and a hole in the middle. (8x8x8, Cells: 504) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Triana. 3-player version of 6x6 games. (9x9, Cells: 54) By Charles Gilman.
Two Ring Chess. Symmetric variant of "The Fellowship of the Ring". (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.

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UC-170-13. Universal Chess version featuring 170 different kind of major pieces and 13 different kind of pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Carlos Cetina.
Unbland Chess. Diagonal moves are usually (but not always) prohibited. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Unknown Off-Pieces Shogi. Pieces placed from outside of the board are unknown to opponent. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.

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Vagabond Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
Valiant Chess. Knight pawns at the fifth rank have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Variable Chess. A light piece is first moved outside the board. From there it can be introduced at any time via an empty square (with zrf). By M Winther.

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War of Kingdoms. Missing description By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
Warlord. Missing description By Joe Joyce.
The Warlord Games. Structured multi-move abstract strategy games of battle. By Joe Joyce.
Warlord: Battle Line. Missing description By Joe Joyce.
Warlord: Civil War. Missing description By Joe Joyce.
Warlord: Clash of Arms. Missing description By Joe Joyce.
Warlord: Lakes. Missing description By Joe Joyce.
Waterfall Xinag-Qi. An elegant 3D xinag-qi variant. (9x10x9, Cells: 810) By Daniil Frolov.
Which & Whose. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Bulat Khabibullin.
Windows Chess . Windows Chess is played on a board inspired by an arch window in my neighbourhood. By David Cannon.
Windows Chess. Windows Chess is played with usual chess equipment on a board inspired by an arch-window. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Cannon.
Withdrawing Chess. Any piece can withdraw from other pieces to capture them. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Wizard's Curse. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.

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Xiangqi vs Orthodox Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 77) By Travis Z.
XiangQi with Different Armies. Missing description (9x10, Cells: 90) By Daniel Robert MacDuff.
xodul. Ten different pieces, with some Shogi and Xiangqi inspirations. By Silvia M. G. Rodrigues.

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Yonin Toyang Mitregi. Four-player variant with returns from capture and promotion to Yang Qi pieces. (13x13, Cells: 169) By Charles Gilman.

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