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1. 12 Augmenters Chess. Each piece's movement capabilities is increased by ~4 squares. By Andrew L Smith.
2. 16Chess. Game with 4 royal pieces. By Zhedric Meneses.
3. 3D Arimaa . 3D Arimaa - Arimaa meets Raumschach. By Tim O'Lena.
4. 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. By Kevin Pacey.
5. 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
6. 4D Hexagonal Chess. 4D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Hyperchess4. (5x(5x(5x5)), Cells: 361) By Kevin Pacey.
7. 4D Hexagonal Chess. 4D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Hyperchess4. By Kevin Pacey.
8. 4D Quasi-Alice Chess. 8x8x2x2 four dimensional game with 32 pieces. (2x(2x(8x8)), Cells: 256) By Kevin Pacey.
9. 5*4DChess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess variant played with 140 pieces. (5x(5x(5x5)), Cells: 625) By Kevin Pacey.
10. 52Chess. A piece may teleport to the square corresponding to a drawn card. By Kevin Pacey.
11. 8-Piece Chess. (Queen's Army chess, all 8 Back Rank Pieces different). By JT K.
12. 88 Hexagons Chess. Hexagonal chess on chessboard with 88 hexagons. By Davor Vujacic.

A

1. Accelerated Chess. Accelerating chess with a new board. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Max Koval.
2. Alibaba Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By Thomas .
3. Amazonia. 11x11 board with Pawns that promote to Princesses in the middle of the board. By Albert Lee.
4. Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
5. Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
6. Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
7. Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
8. ArchMage Chess. 10x10 30v30 Fantasy Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Cyrus Arturas.
9. Arena Cheturshogqi. 2-4 Players on large board with mutating pieces and piece drops. (13x13, Cells: 169) By Paul E. Newton.
10. Armor Chess. Personal shields protect pieces from one of the 8 directions. Author: Ben M Reiniger and Vladimir . Inventor: Vladimir .
11. Ascension. 6x6 board with two Kings that promote to royal Queens. By Albert Lee.
12. Assymetrical diagonal chess. Diaonal chess (well balanced) variant with 8 pawns per player. By Zbigniew Kokosiński.
13. Atlantean Barroom Shatranj . Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
14. Atlantic Graphics. Chess font that supports fairy pieces. By Max Koval.
15. Avatar Chess. Game with avatars that can assume any piece of chess, depending on the fields of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.

B

1. Backlash. Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other! (2x(8x8), Cells: 132) By Greg Strong.
2. Backlash. Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other! By Greg Strong.
3. Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules. By A. M. DeWitt.
4. Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules. By A. M. DeWitt.
5. Battle of Kings. You start with eight pawns. The rest chess pieces appear on the board during the game. By Вадря Покштя.
6. Beautiful Beasts. A new team for Chess with Different Armies based on the Roc. By Jörg Knappen.
7. Bollwerk 178. Occupying the opponent’s end field with a piece or a bomb. By Stefan Bogdanski.
8. Borderline. Without pawns, with only one king, capturing opponent's pieces is omitted. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Gerd P. Degens.
9. Bull's eye. Upgrading of the possibilities to move within the Bull's eye to make the game more dynamic. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.
10. Butterfly Chess. Large board chess with butterflies (not Ns), advancers (not Qs) & flying dragons added. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
11. Butterfly Chess. Game with Butterflies (not Ns), Advancers (not Qs) & Flying Dragons added. By Kevin Pacey.

C

1. Cannon Shosu Shogi. Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons. By A. M. DeWitt.
2. Cannon Shosu Shogi. Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons. By A. M. DeWitt.
3. Capatomic Random Chess. Variant that combines Capablanca Random and Stratomic Chess. By Gaelyn Autumnsong.
4. Capped Pawns (Bemützte Bauern). Pawns have a double step once in their career. By Jörg Knappen.
5. Carbery. game for fantasy thing. By Aidan Murphy.
6. Carrousel Chess. Game with 32 pieces. (16x4, Cells: 64) By Kevin Pacey.
7. Castling Rules in Chess Variants. An investigation of castling rules in chess and chess variants. Author: Greg Strong.
8. Central Point Chess. Small 7x7 game with different pieces. By QIDb602.
9. Chak. A modern vision of what a Mayan chess would look like. By Daniel Lee.
10. Champagne Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with ferfils and dragons added. By Kevin Pacey.
11. Chec Toe. Chec Toe is a 4x4 Chess variant played with a six sided die, incorporating uniquely designed features, such as Checkering, Cross. By Simon Edward Jepps.
12. CHECK 11. 11 different original factions, chosen secretly, each with extra powers when few pieces remain. By Paul Thierry TESSA.
13. Checkmating Applet. Practice your checkmating skill with fairy pieces. By H. G. Muller.
14. Checkmating Applet (3 vs 1). Practice your checkmating skill with fairy pieces. By H. G. Muller.
15. Chess 66. Board based on the 8x8 arrangement - with the difference that 66 fields are now available. (8x8, Cells: 66) By Gerd P. Degens.
16. Chess and a Half. Game with extra leapers. By Nicolino Will.
17. Chess and Three Quarters. Extremely powerful leapers dominate a game with multiple royal pieces. By Nicolino Will.
18. Chess of Amazons. Chess played on a 10x10 board with all FIDE pieces, but extra pawns, and the Amazon piece from the Game of Amazons. By paculino.
19. Chess on an Infinite Plane. Chess game with no boundaries (infinite board), and Guard, Chancellor, and Hawk. () By V. Reinhart.
20. Chess Poker. Like poker, but players are dealt a hand of pieces instead of cards. By Gvndly.
21. Chess Remix. Create your chess variant. () By Alexandr Oleshko.
22. Chess vs Strong Makruk. Chess against an enhanced Makruk army in an 8x8 board. By Albert Lee.
23. ChessArena.io. Real-time, many-player, "io-style" game. Author: Ben M Reiniger. Inventor: ChessArena.
24. Chessembly. Open Board Setup, Free Placement Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By JT K.
25. ChessXp. 10x10 Chess, strictly derived from the 8x8 architecture. By Uli Schwekendiek.
26. Circular Capa Chess. Play circular chess with added archbishops and chancellors on a 5x16 round board. By Kevin Pacey.
27. Citadelir chess. Grand chess + Tamerlane chess + Omega Chess. By Daphne Snowmoon.
28. Claustrophobia Chess. game is lost if King has no space to move. By Thomas .
29. Co-Regal Chess. Take the enemy King/Queen and checkmate the remaining monarch to win. By Tank .
30. Cold War Chess. A long and very challanging game against all odds. By Kutasi Márton.
31. College Mess. Smess variant played using a Smess board & set. (7x8, Cells: 56) By Kevin Pacey.
32. Colour Chess and Lure. Chess Variant where the board is different every time you play, and you can control what pieces your opponent can move next. By Chad W Smith.
33. Complete Chess . on big board with riding and leaping piece families. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Thomas .
34. Complete Chess. with a riding and a leaping piece family. By Thomas .
35. Compound Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Sergeant pawns & armies of compound pieces. By Kevin Pacey.
36. Compound Courier Custom Chess. Game uses the Courier 12x8 board and adds knight compound pieces. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Graeme C Neatham.
37. Conquer the opponent's army. The goal of the game is to conquer the opponent's army and to add it to your own army. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.
38. Conservative Capablanca Chess. Alternative, more traditional Capablanca chess setup. Author: Davor Vujacic. Inventor: Davor Vujacic and David Paulowich.
39. The Consuls. Chess with two Kings and Pawns that can capture as Bishop, Knight, and Rook on the enemy side. By Albert Lee.
40. Contact Chess. Connecting pieces enhances movement, attack and defense. Powerful pawns and kings. By John Gallez.
41. Continental Chess. Continental Chess is Chess Variations with many types of pieces such as stepper, leaper, hopper and rider. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Siwakorn Songrag.
42. Courier Chess VIII. A re-imagining of Courier Chess, on a smaller board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Paulowich.
43. The Custom Crushers. A 'build it yourself' Chess with Different Armies army inspired by the Corps from 12 Augmenters Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andrew L Smith.

D

1. d4 d6 chess. Dice determine the number of steps you can move with your piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Maurice Dekker.
2. Deception Chess. Each piece has two identities, Cloak and concealed Base. By Greg Shanker.
3. Decimaka. Game where pieces promote on making a capture. By H. G. Muller.
4. Decimaka (revised). Game where pieces promote on making a capture. (10x10) By H. G. Muller.
5. Decisive Chess. Chess, but replacing draw rules with win/loss rules. By Iwer Sonsch.
6. Delta-Nabla Chess. Chess translated to a triangular grid as naturally as possible. By Jeff Cornell.
7. Diagonal chess (well balanced). Diagonal chess with 7 fortified pawns. By Zbigniew Kokosiński.
8. Diagonal pawn chess. Pawns always move diagonally, whether capturing or not. By Joel .
9. Double Move Double Chess. Play this double move variant that uses two Chess sets with Game Courier. (8x16, Cells: 128) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Вадря Покштя.
10. Double Move Double Chess. The game is played on a 8x16 chessboard with each player in control of two complete armies. By Вадря Покштя.
11. Douglas Modern chess. A chess variant with a more interesting start position, leading to more action. By Ian Douglas.
12. Dragon Chess. Regular chess army against a single, 3x3, unwieldy but powerful piece. By kittytac.
13. Duck Chess. A Duck that must be moved by both players can block your moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: H. G. Muller. Inventor: Tim Paulden.

E

1. E-Chess. The chess pieces appear on the board during the game. By Вадря Покштя.
2. echess. (Micro) Evolutionary CHESS game. By bp .
3. Empire Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like queens but capture differently. By Daniel Lee.
4. Enep. An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Aurelian Florea.
5. Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced. By Daniel Zacharias.
6. Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced. By Daniel Zacharias.
7. Epic Chess. Massive attack chess on a board 10x10. By Вадря Покштя.
8. Expansion chess. Get points per each your piece on other half of board to win. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rechefiltr is Fire.

F

1. Fairy Eater Chess. Game on a 9x9 board with fairy chess pieces. By Вадря Покштя.
2. Fantastic XIII. A bizarre large odd chess variant with the weirdest men from Cazaux's family. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
3. Fantastic XIII. This is the G.C. preset for Fantastic XIII, a bizarre CV,13 types of pieces on 13x13 board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
4. Fischer-Benko Chess. Three pieces are placed randomly, the other five by the players. By Davor Vujacic.
5. Flank Chess. Flank Chess with Achilles. (10x9, Cells: 90) By wdtr2.
6. Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
7. Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
8. Fuel Chess. The total distance a piece can travel is limited. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Thomas .
9. Full house hexagonal chess. Game with 50 pieces. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Kevin Pacey.
10. Futashikana Shogi. Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board. By A. M. DeWitt.
11. Futashikana Shogi. Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board. By A. M. DeWitt.

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1. GAME code generation. A tutorial on using the Play-Test Applet for automating Game Courier presets. By H. G. Muller.
2. Gamma2 Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Berolina Pawns & special Ship & Archer pieces. By Kevin Pacey.
3. Gigachess II. Evolution of Gigachess (2001). By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
4. Gigachess II. Evolution of Gigachess. 24 different types of pieces on a 14 x 14 board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
5. GoshawkChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two Goshawks per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor. By James Zuercher.
6. Grand Alamos Chess. FIDE, but with an initial setup reminiscent of Grand Chess. By Jeff Cornell.
7. Grand Apothecary Chess-Alert. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
8. Grand Apothecary Chess-Classic. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
9. Grand Apothecary Chess-Modern. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
10. Grand Betza. Play Grand Betza on Game Courier. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: John Davis.
11. Grand Betza. A tribute to Ralph Betza on a 10x10 board with pawns on the third rank as in Grand Chess. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: John Davis.
12. Grand Dice Chess. Grand Dice Chess Battle on a 12x12 board with four dice. By Вадря Покштя.
13. Grand Shatranj . Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
14. Grand Triple Chess. Chess on an 16 x 24 board (i.e. six boards) with 3 sets of pieces. (24x16, Cells: 384) By Вадря Покштя.
15. Granlem Shatranj. This is a mash-up of Grand Shatranj & Lemurian Shatranj with a 3 moves/player turn option. By Joe Joyce.
16. Great Shatranj . Shatranj style game on 10x8 board. By Christine Bagley-Jones.

H

1. Hajiku Shogi. Inspired by Shogi and Chu Shogi. Pieces can both promote and demote in promotion zone. By Edward Webb.
2. Half-Random Chess. Three pieces are placed randomly, the other five by the players. By Davor Vujacic.
3. Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
4. Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
5. Heavy Chess. Play Heavy Chess on Game Courier. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
6. Heavy Chess. A high-density chess-variant-variant. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
7. Heavy Shako. 10x10 variant inspired by Yangsi, made by Eric Silverman and Jean-Louis Cazaux. Author: A. M. DeWitt. Inventor: Eric Silverman and Jean-Louis Cazaux.
8. Heavy Shako. 10x10 variant inspired by Yangsi, made by Eric Silverman. (10x10, Cells: 100) By A. M. DeWitt.
9. Hectochess. 10x10 variant that can be played with 2 mismatched Chess sets. By A. M. DeWitt.
10. Hectochess. 10x10 variant that can be played with 2 mismatched Chess sets. By A. M. DeWitt.
11. Hexagonal Arimaa. Hexagonal Arimaa - Based on McCooey's Hexagonal Chess. By Tim O'Lena.
12. Hexagonal Raumschach. 3D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Raumschach. By Kevin Pacey.
13. Hexagonal Raumschach. Three dimensional analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess, based on Raumschach. (5x(7x7), Cells: 185) By Kevin Pacey.
14. Hexiang Qi. Hexagonal Variant of Xiang Qi. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Robert Hancock.
15. High Chess. Drawn games are instead won by the player whose King is closest to the centre. By Grant Sinclair.
16. Hook Shogi. 16x16 variant with the hook movers from the largest Shogi variants. (16x16, Cells: 256) By A. M. DeWitt.
17. Horizons. Game with 5 new pieces on 12x12 board. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Rechefiltr is Fire.
18. Horseman's Chess. Game where pieces mount and dismount. By Frank MacCrory.
19. https://www.omnichess.club/variant/bc6b6876-dbdc-419c-bba4-3e462. Missing description

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1. I-Chess. Large board variant that adds two more piece types: the wolf and the eagle. Author: Aurelian Florea. Inventor: Paul Zamă.
2. I-Chess. Play this 12x12 large board game with two new peices. Author: Greg Strong.

J

1. Joust Chess. Rotating pieces, long range movement, adjacent capture, both in one turn using different directions. By Jeff Cornell.

K

1. King's speech. 360 random positions with the King always exposed and vulnerable. By Davor Vujacic.
2. Kingsmen. 9x9 board with two extra Bishops. Pieces gain the King's moveset upon reaching the last three ranks. By Albert Lee.
3. KMF's 12x12 Dozenal Chess. Adds rifle-capturing archers and royalty-inheriting princes. By Theresa Dubé.
4. Knockoff Chess. Chess with pieces that push each other around and off the board. By Daniel Zacharias.
5. Koval's Hexagonal Chess. A new way to play chess on hexagonal cells. By Max Koval.
6. Koval's Hexagonal Chess. Game Courier Preset to play Koval's Hexagonal Chess. By Max Koval.
7. Kuuzen Dai Shogi. Dai Shogi with different promotions, invented by Eric Silverman. (15x15, Cells: 225) Author: A. M. DeWitt. Inventor: Eric Silverman.
8. Kyou Shogi. Modified Chu Shogi with pieces from and inspired by Tenjiku Shogi, featuring jumping pieces and Fire Demons. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Edward Webb.

L

1. LeaperChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two extra Knights per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor. By James Zuercher.
2. Left-Right Chess. A large variant with some pieces that move as a Rook only left or right. By J Paleja.
3. Lemurian Shatranj . Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.

M

1. M!C Chess. All pieces but the king move and capture differently in a 10x10 board. By danielxdg.
2. Maasai Chess. Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including both regular and rapid Pawns. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
3. Maasai Chess. Play Maasai Chess with Game Courier. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
4. Majority Chess. You can move a piece only if it is on a file where you have a majority of pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Emiliano "Wentu" Venturini.
5. Mansindam. A variant that combines 'drop' rule and strong pieces, and there is no draw. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Daphne Snowmoon.
6. The Marvellous Megafauna. A diverse Chess with Different Armies faction with riders and leapers. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andrew L Smith.
7. Metamachy. Play this large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
8. MightyChess. Capablanca Chess, but stronger pieces. By James Zuercher.
9. Mimic Chess. Chess on a larger board with 3 new pieces with constantly changing movement capabilities. By Nick Wolff.
10. Mimic Chess . Chess on a larger board with 3 new pieces with constantly changing movement capabilities. By Nick Wolff.
11. Mimic Chess. Chess on a larger board with 3 new pieces with constantly changing movement capabilities. By Nick Wolff.
12. Mitsugumi Shogi. Smaller variant of Suzumu Shogi on a 13x13 board. (13x13, Cells: 169) By A. M. DeWitt.
13. Mitsugumi Shogi. Smaller variant of Suzumu Shogi on a 13x13 board. (13x13, Cells: 169) By A. M. DeWitt.
14. Mosaic Chess. Large variant combining pieces from various other games. By Daniel Zacharias.
15. Mystery Chess. An imperfect information variant you can play online with Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Ross Gillies.

N

1. Never-Ending Infinite Sandbox Chess Game. Online forum-based chess game with 12 players, infinite board, and many pieces. By Theresa Dubé.
2. Nine elders. Sittuyin + Shogi. By Daphne Snowmoon.
3. Noname Chess. Missing description By orian.

O

1. Obento Chess. 12x12 Chess variant with Shogi-style promotions and bent sliding pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Eric Silverman and Jean-Louis Cazaux.
2. Open King 4*4DChess. Four dimensional game with 48 pieces. (4x(4x(4x4)), Cells: 256) By Kevin Pacey.
3. Open King 5*4DChess. Four dimensional game with 74 pieces. (5x(5x(5x5)), Cells: 625) By Kevin Pacey.
4. Orthodia. Break your orthogonal and diagonal patterns! (Two versions). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rechefiltr is Fire.

P

1. Paco Shako. Pieces coexist peacefully on target square after capture. Author: H. G. Muller. Inventor: Felix Albers.
2. Palace. 7x7 board with a 3x3 Palace at the centre, where King promotes to Queen. By Albert Lee.
3. Palace Shogi. A complicated hybrid of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and Chess. By Silvia Hollinshead.
4. Pandemonium. Capablanca chess + Crazyhouse. By Daphne Snowmoon.
5. PantherChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two Panthers per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor. By James Zuercher.
6. Paradigm Chess30. Chess with Dragon Bishop and 30 positions. By Craig Willenberg and Lourenzo Van Niekerk.
7. Paragi. Shogi without drop rule + Strong pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Daphne Snowmoon.
8. Parity Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with Champions and FADs added. By Kevin Pacey.
9. Pawn Blackhole Chess. Each side is split into two and grouped into corners. Pawns play towards the center. Author: Nemo Thorx. Inventor: Nemo Thorx and Adam Corbally.
10. Pemba. Extension of Shako, with 60 pieces. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
11. Pemba. Game Courier Preset to play Pemba, 60 pieces on the decimal board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
12. Phantom. Classical Chess featuring an invisible Phantom piece. By Simon Edward Jepps.
13. Pink Chess. White has two Kings, black two Queens as royal pieces. By H. G. Muller.
14. Platonic Chess. Platonic solids in a complete 10x10 chessboard. By Albert Lee.
15. Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against. By H. G. Muller.
16. Pocket Shogi Copper. A Variant of Shogi with Copper General and Pocket. By wdtr2.
17. Pocket Shogi Plus. Shogi Like game with a pocket to store and move pieces. By wdtr2.
18. Poison Pawn Chess. Capture the wrong pawn and you lose. Author: calebmcc111. Inventor: Samay Raina.
19. PokerChess. PokerChess is a 2 player board game employing the mechanics of chess and poker. By Susannah Thorarinsson.

R

1. Reroute66. A simpler game using the same board as Gerd Degens' Chess66. (10x8, Cells: 66) By Fergus Duniho.
2. Reroute66. Play this adaptation of Chess to a 66 space board with some overlapping spaces. (10x8, Cells: 66) By Fergus Duniho.
3. Reservists' doublechess. Each side has 16 non-pawn pieces, split among 10 types. By Andrew L Smith.
4. Rhomboidal Chess. Chess variant on rhombic cells. (8x16, Cells: 84) By Max Koval.
5. Riftwalker Chess. A 4 dimensional game on a 3x3x3x3 board. (3x(3x(3x3)), Cells: 81) By Nick Fletcher.
6. A Royal and His Pet. Missing description By Zhedric Meneses.
7. Royal Bishop Chess. Simple variant with royal bishop. (8x8, Cells: 64) By QIDb602.
8. Ryugi. 10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider. By A. M. DeWitt.
9. Ryugi. 10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider. By A. M. DeWitt.

S

1. Safe Passage. Move pieces to opposite side without putting pieces in danger of capture. By Karen Robinson.
2. Saisho shogi. Game with one dice-shaped shared piece. By Francesco Fonseca.
3. SASR chess symbols. Minimalistic graphics for chess and variants. By Ola Sassersson.
4. Sesqui-dimensional Chess. 1d circular variant where pieces move clockwise, counterclockwise, and *across the center* of the circle. By Jeff Cornell.
5. Shako_Balbo. Game with Diamond Shape Board. By wdtr2.
6. Sharp Chess. Drawless Chess with minor victory conditions. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniel Zacharias.
7. Shatar, Old 1 Hia. Old Shatar with one Hia. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
8. Shatranj With Different Armies. Like Chess with Different Armies, but for Shatranj. By Andrew L Smith.
9. Shogi with Impassable Kings. A modest fix to Shogi that makes impasses impossible. By Fergus Duniho.
10. Shogun Chess. Pieces promote and can be dropped, similar to Shogi. By Daniel Lee.
11. Shoko Shogi. Smaller variant of Hook Shogi on a 13x13 board. (13x13, Cells: 169) By A. M. DeWitt.
12. Short Leaper Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Petar Djurickovic.
13. Shosu Shogi. 10x10 Shogi variant with Queens and more powerful promoted pieces. By A. M. DeWitt.
14. Shosu Shogi. 10x10 Shogi variant with Queens and more powerful promoted pieces. By A. M. DeWitt.
15. Simplified chess. Simple subset of the chess rules. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Michiel Tas.
16. Simplified Makpong. Makruk variant. By Henk Drost.
17. Singularity Chess. A fixed and fully notated form of singularity chess. By Aric .
18. Skica. 10x10 with Ski pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Daniel Zacharias.
19. Skica. 10x10 with Ski Pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Daniel Zacharias.
20. SliderChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two extra Bishops per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor. By James Zuercher.
21. SOHO Chess. Chess on a 10x10 board with Champions, FADs, Wizards & Cannons. By Kevin Pacey.
22. Solar Chess. 2 to 6 players on a hexagonal board with quadrilateral tiles and Shogi-inspired drop rules. By Jeff Cornell.
23. Sorchess. A somewhat unorthodox Wizard enters the 64sq arena, yet with good charm. By Simon Edward Jepps.
24. Spherical Corner Chess. Game on a truly topologically spherical board with corner‐camp arrays. By Bn Em.
25. Spiral Chess. The royal pieces slide along a spiral trajectory. By H. G. Muller.
26. Square Attrition Chess. Squares can be visited a limited number of times. By Thomas .
27. SquireKnight. Squire Knight combines Knight and Forward/Backward Pawn like moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Stephane Burkhart.
28. The Starbound Sliders. A Chess With Different Armies team featuring rook-inspired sliders. By Andrew L Smith.
29. Stone Garden Chess. The animal statues in the stone garden came to life and attacked the two rival kings! With the help of a policeman each, they…. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rechefiltr is Fire.
30. Stone's Chess. Chess variant with the addition of two Archbishops. (10x8, Cells: 80) By rhett applestone.
31. StrataChess v1.0. separate Strategic and Tactical gameplay. 2-6 players. Element of Chance. Terrain. Build your own armies. By Prussia General.
32. Super Tamerlane. A more modern version of the original Tamerlane Chess. By Nicolino Will.
33. Super4*Chess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess variant played with 96 pieces. (4x(4x(4x4)), Cells: 256) By Kevin Pacey.
34. Suzumu Shogi. 16x16 variant based on Tenjiku Shogi. (16x16, Cells: 256) By A. M. DeWitt.
35. Suzumu Shogi. 16x16 variant based on Tenjiku Shogi. (16x16, Cells: 256) By A. M. DeWitt.
36. Synochess. Asymmetric west vs east variant where the western chess army plays against a Chinese and Korean-inspired army. By Daniel Lee.

T

1. Tank Chess. Upgrade your tank to defeat others. By Alexander Mach.
2. Tao's Chess. Chess variant where as you move across a line, the pieces reverse roles. By Travis Geyer.
3. Temple Island Chess. Solo game with shadow pieces. By Karen Robinson.
4. Terachess II. A summit with 26 different pieces on a 16 x 16 board. There are 64 pieces per side of 26 different types. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
5. Terachess II. An unrealistic summit on a very large board of 16x16 squares and 128 pieces. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
6. Teramachy. Teramachy is the child of Metamachy with 12 rows and Terachess with 16 columns. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
7. Teramachy. A chess variant between Metamachy and Terachess. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
8. Three Realms Chess. A three layer variant with familiar and fantastical pieces. (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) By Andrew L Smith.
9. Threehex. Hexagonal variant for three players. By Max Koval.
10. Through the Looking-Glass. Alice chess, but you see only a board. (2x(8x8), Cells: 64) By Paolo .
11. Thuria Jetan. Jetan variant played on standard chessboard. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fredrik Ekman.
12. Tiger Chess. A large game with fast-moving pieces. By Daniel Zacharias.
13. Tigrey. Combination of Expanded Chess and Tiger Chess. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Daniel Zacharias.
14. Tigrey. Combination of Expanded Chess and Tiger Chess. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Daniel Zacharias.
15. Tjatoer!. A chess variant written in Python, designed to stress test engines. By Halfen Ludith.
16. Total Symmetry Chess. 24 random balanced symmetrical starting positions. By Davor Vujacic.
17. Trade-up Chess. Chess where you trade-up your pieces with pieces in your hand. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Oliver Clarke.
18. Trappist-1. Chess game with no boundaries. includes Guard, Chancellor, Hawk, and Huygens. () By V. Reinhart.
19. Tremendous Chess. Tremendous Chess is a large chess variant that is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 112 pieces per player. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Вадря Покштя.
20. Turnover. Three ring sizes fit into each other, combining and splitting into different pieces, sometimes taking over your opponent's. By Lúcio José Patrocínio Filho.
21. Turtle Shell Chess. Chess on a 33344-33434 tiling. (5x7, Cells: 64) By Samuel Trenholme.
22. Two Move Chess. Designed to alleviate the first move advantage for White using double moves, while retaining the tactics of international chess. By Ted Larson Freeman.

U

1. Ultimate Hexagonal Chess. Hexagonal chess that has no equal. By Max Koval.
2. Uneven pieces chess. The two armies have their back rank material distributed in different ways, discouraging trades. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Andrew L Smith.

V

1. Vavulin Creative Chess. Before the start of the game, every player, creates up with one rule for both players, which operates the whole game. By Dmitrii Vavulin.
2. VD Chess. VD Chess is a game of random chess with 5,760 possible starting positions and with fairy pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Davor Vujacic.
3. Very Heavy Chess. Play Very Heavy Chess on Game Courier. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
4. Very Heavy Chess. A lot of firepower with all compounds of classical chess pieces. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
5. Veteran Chess. Most pieces can or must irreversibly promote when they capture. By H. G. Muller.
6. VIZAVI. Missing description By Сергей Маэстро.
7. Void Shogi. Modest Shogi variant with more diverse promotions for the minor pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Andrew L Smith.

W

1. WAD Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with WADs (Champions) added. By Kevin Pacey.
2. Waffle Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with waffles added. By Kevin Pacey.
3. Wide Chess. Chess with 2 types of non-colourbound elephants added on a 12x8 board using fast castling rules. By Kevin Pacey.
4. Wide Chess. Chess with 2 types of non-colourbound elephants added on a 12x8 board using fast castling rules. By Kevin Pacey.
5. Wide Nightrider Chess. Chess on a 12x10 board with Nightriders, Champions and fast castling rules. By Kevin Pacey.
6. Wide Nightrider Chess. Chess on a 12x10 board with Nightriders, Champions and fast castling rules. By Kevin Pacey.
7. Wide SOHO Chess. Chess on a 12x10 board with Archbishops, Marshalls, Champions, FADs, Wizards & Cannons. By Kevin Pacey.
8. Wild Kingdom. Battle for jungle dominance with your own army of animals, each with special abilities. By Nick Wolff.
9. Wild Kingdom. Animal armies battle for control of the Wild Kingdom! (10x10, Cells: 100) By Nick Wolff.
10. Wildebeast9. A Variant of Wildebeast Chess. By wdtr2.
11. Wildebeest Decimal Chess. A Wildebeest Chess adaptation to the decimal board. By Erik Lerouge.
12. A World of Chess. Book on Chess variants and the history of Chess. By Jean-Louis Cazaux and Rick Knowlton.

X

1. Xiongqi. A Xiangqi variant with modern Bishops on a 9x9 board. By Cyril Kato.

Y

1. Yangsi. A very playable chess variant with 12 different pieces on a 10x10 board. By A. M. DeWitt.
2. Yangsi. A very playable chess variant with 12 different pieces on a 10x10 board. By A. M. DeWitt.

Z

1. Zanzibar-S. A game in between Metamachy and Zanzibar-XL with 36 pieces per side. Preferred by some to the -XL version. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
2. Zanzibar-S. A large CV with 72 pieces of 17 different types. Bigger than Metamachy. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
3. Zanzibar-XL. Further step after Metamachy. 80 pieces of 19 different pieces, with historical lineage. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
4. Zanzibar-XL. Beyond Metamachy. 80 pieces of 19 different types, with historical lineage. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
5. Zo Shogi. A variant of Sho Shogi in which Drop rule is included and Prince (promoted Elephant) is a non-royal King. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Daphne Snowmoon.

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