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This is a link to an external site for: Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants

Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants: http://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm

This is a new, expanded edition of the original Encyclopaedia of Chess Variants, published in 1994. For this edition over 200 new games have been added, and everything has been classified by type. The material for the book had been prepared by David Pritchard and, following his death in 2005, the text was completed and edited by John Beasley.

Note that several new variants from this site (The Chess Variant Pages) are included in this book! Just to name a few:

See also BoardGameGeek's page (where the following image comes from).

18 Aug 2015: Link updated. Old link was:
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/thechevarpag-21/detail/0955516803/203-1665069-6516704


This 'link page' is meant to provide a link to another website. Note that we have no connection to, nor bear responsibility for the linked sites.

Author: David B. Pritchard and John Beasley.
Web page created: 2007-05-23. Web page last updated: 2015-08-18

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