Every Favorited Game, Sorted by How Many Favorited Each Game

This is a list of games that have been favorited by members of the Chess Variant Pages. If you have your own favorites you enjoy playing, you can favorite them with the ♥ menu on the page for each game you wish to favorite. This is a community project, not just a selection of games by the editors. Even if your favorites are already on the list, mark them as favorites anyway. Numbers count. Raise your favorite games higher in the list by casting your votes for them.

How to Favorite a Game

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Legend

💘 - One of Your Own Favorites

💖 - Favorited by the Inventor Whose Name it Follows

🧡 - Generic Heart Symbol

🧡 35 (27.237) - Shogi.
The Japanese form of Chess, in which players get to keep and replay captured pieces.

🧡 26 (19.302) - Chess.
The rules of chess.

🧡 25 (20.245) - Xiangqi (象棋): Chinese Chess.
Links and rules for Xiangqi (Chinese Chess).

🧡 22 (16.549) - Chu Shogi.
Historic Japanese favorite, featuring a multi-capturing Lion

🧡 21 (15.071) - Chess with Different Armies by Ralph Betza.
Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces

🧡 19 (14.355) - Alice Chess by Vernon Parton.
Classic Variant where pieces switch between two boards whenever they move

🧡 17 (12.358) - Grand Chess by Christian Freeling.
Christian Freeling's popular large chess variant on 10 by 10 board. Rules and links.
🧡 17 (11.165) - Shako by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board.

🧡 16 (10.497) - Janggi: Korean Chess.
The variant of chess played in Korea.

🧡 14 (10.203) - Rococo by Peter Aronson and David Howe.
A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board
🧡 14 (8.964) - Metamachy by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
Large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces
🧡 14 (8.711) - Eurasian Chess by Fergus Duniho💖.
Synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess

🧡 12 (10.161) - Fischer Random Chess by Robert Fischer.
Play from a random setup
🧡 12 (8.305) - Falcon Chess by George Duke💖.
Game on an 8x10 board with a new piece: The Falcon
🧡 12 (8.103) - Sovereign Chess by Mark Bates💖.
Ten neutral armies can be activated on this 16 x 16 board
🧡 12 (7.857) - Pocket Mutation Chess by Michael Nelson.
Take one of your pieces off the board, maybe change it, keep it in reserve, and drop it on the board later.
🧡 12 (7.764) - Spartan Chess by Steven Streetman.
A game with unequal armies.
🧡 12 (7.195) - Omega Chess by DanielMacdonald.
Rules for commercial chess variant on board with 104 squares.
🧡 12 (6.920) - Opulent Chess by Greg Strong💖.
A derivative of Grand Chess with additional jumping pieces (Lion and Wizard)

🧡 11 (8.146) - Tamerlane chess.
A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj.
🧡 11 (6.870) - Wildebeest Chess by R. Schmittberger.
Variant on an 10 by 11 board with extra jumping pieces.
🧡 11 (6.553) - Caïssa Britannia by Fergus Duniho💖.
British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen.
🧡 11 (6.514) - Gross Chess by Fergus Duniho💖.
A big variant with a small learning curve
🧡 11 (5.959) - Expanded Chess by Daniel Zacharias💖.
An attempt at a logical expansion of Chess to a 10x10 board
🧡 11 (5.873) - Glinski's Hexagonal Chess by Wladyslaw Glinski.
Chess on a board made out of hexagons.

🧡 10 (7.942) - Makruk (Thai chess).
Rules and information.
🧡 10 (6.845) - Ultima by Robert Abbott.
Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. Also called Baroque.
🧡 10 (6.464) - Centennial Chess by John Brown.
10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix
🧡 10 (5.990) - Courier Chess.
A large historic variant from Medieval Europe

🧡 9 (6.460) - Shatranj.
The widely played Arabian predecessor of modern chess.
🧡 9 (6.249) - Crazyhouse.
A two-player version of Bughouse.
🧡 9 (5.885) - Opulent Lemurian Shatranj by David Paulowich💖.
Joe Joyce's Shaman and Hero pieces are now on a larger board.
🧡 9 (5.793) - Wormhole Chess by Fergus Duniho💖.
When a piece leaves a square, it `folds' together
🧡 9 (5.322) - Shogun Chess by Daniel Lee💖.
Pieces promote and can be dropped, similar to Shogi

🧡 8 (5.806) - Janus Chess by Werner Schoendorf.
Variant on 10 by 8 board.
🧡 8 (5.655) - Chaturanga.
The first known variant of chess.
🧡 8 (5.633) - Capablanca's chess by Jose Capablanca.
An enlarged chess variant, proposed by Capablanca
🧡 8 (5.505) - Great Shatranj by Joe Joyce💖.
Great Shatranj
🧡 8 (5.169) - Jetan - Martian Chess by Edgar Burroughs.
Martian Chess, coming from the book The Chessmen of Mars.
🧡 8 (4.734) - Dimension X by Gary Gifford.
Chess on two planes - one with the usual chess pieces, the other with spooky trans-dimensional pieces with strange interactions
🧡 8 (4.715) - TenCubed Chess by David Paulowich.
Variant on 10 by 10 board with combination pieces
🧡 8 (4.304) - Apothecary Chess-Modern by Aurelian Florea💖.
Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games
🧡 8 (4.002) - Tamerlane II by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
Modern variant based upon ancient large chess variant.

🧡 7 (5.059) - Bughouse.
4 player variant where pieces taken from your opponent are given to your partner.
🧡 7 (4.896) - Fusion Chess by Fergus Duniho💖.
Variant in which pieces may merge together or split apart.
🧡 7 (4.457) - Tenjiku Shogi.
Fire Demons burn surrounding enemies, Generals capture jumping many pieces
🧡 7 (4.377) - Colossus by Charles Daniel.
Large-board chess with standard pieces and double the number of bishops, rooks and knights.
🧡 7 (4.173) - Grand Shatranj by Joe Joyce💖.
Grand Shatranj
🧡 7 (4.082) - Grande Acedrex.
A large variant from 13th century Europe.
🧡 7 (3.924) - Cetran Chess 2 by Carlos Cetina.
🧡 7 (3.858) - Storm the Ivory Tower by Fergus Duniho💖.
A Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess
🧡 7 (3.808) - Grand Cavalier Chess by Fergus Duniho💖.
The decimal version of Cavalier Chess
🧡 7 (3.757) - Shako_Balbo by wdtr2💖.
Game with Diamond Shape Board
🧡 7 (3.351) - Apothecary Chess-Classic by Aurelian Florea💖.
Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games
🧡 7 (3.295) - Terachess II by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
An unrealistic summit on a very large board of 16x16 squares and 128 pieces
🧡 7 (3.229) - Unicorn Great Chess by David Paulowich💖.
Lions have been added to Unicorn Chess!

🧡 6 (5.240) - Arimaa by Omar Syed and Aamir Syed.
Board game playable with standard chess set, hard for computers
🧡 6 (4.902) - Minishogi by Shigenobu Kusumo.
On a 5 by 5 board.
🧡 6 (4.897) - Losing Chess.
Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins
🧡 6 (4.633) - Chak by Daniel Lee💖.
A modern vision of what a Mayan chess would look like
🧡 6 (4.567) - Scirocco (revised) by Adrian King.
On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces.
🧡 6 (4.373) - Tori Shogi by Ohashi Soei.
Tori Shogi, or Bird Shogi. A variant of Japanese Chess on a 7 by 7 board.
🧡 6 (4.102) - Modern Shatranj by Joe Joyce💖.
A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj.
🧡 6 (4.072) - Musketeer Chess by Zied Haddad.
Adding 2 newly designed extra pieces
🧡 6 (3.970) - Seirawan Chess by Yasser Seirawan and Bruce Harper.
FIDE chess, put players have N+R and N+B in hand to drop.
🧡 6 (3.843) - Brouhaha by Greg Strong💖.
Like Chess, but it really brings the ruckus!
🧡 6 (3.768) - Orda Chess by Daniel Lee💖.
Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like knights but capture differently
🧡 6 (3.752) - Raumschach by Dr. Ferdinand Maack.
The classical variant of three-dimensional chess: 5 by 5 by 5.
🧡 6 (3.729) - Bear Chess by Mikhail Sosnovsky.
A popular Russian game; bears leap to second perimeter
🧡 6 (3.664) - McCooey's Hexagonal chess by Dave McCooey.
Chess on a board, made out of hexes. Variant of Dave McCooey.
🧡 6 (3.610) - Wolf Chess by Dr. Arno von Wilpert.
Half-century old variant on board of size 8 by 10.
🧡 6 (3.577) - Dragonchess by Gary Gygax.
A three-dimensional fantasy variant.
🧡 6 (3.547) - Philosophers Chess by Darren Izzard.
Chess variant on two small boards with usual and `philosophical' pieces.
🧡 6 (3.393) - Gigachess II by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
Evolution of Gigachess (2001)
🧡 6 (3.230) - Synochess by Daniel Lee💖.
Asymmetric west vs east variant where the western chess army plays against a Chinese and Korean-inspired army
🧡 6 (3.159) - Sac Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Game with 60 pieces

🧡 5 (3.867) - Orwell Chess by Glenn Overby II.
Three player variant themed on George Orwell's 1984.
🧡 5 (3.779) - Rose Chess XII by David Paulowich💖.
With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines.
🧡 5 (3.689) - Team-Mate Chess by H. G. Muller💖.
Variant with 8 different pieces, none of which is able to checkmate a bare king on its own.
🧡 5 (3.668) - Shatranj of Troy by Gary Gifford.
A Shatranj variant with Shogi-like drops, a Trojan Horse (with 6 pieces inside),
🧡 5 (3.573) - Extinction chess by R. Schmittberger.
Win by making your opponents pieces of one type extinct
🧡 5 (3.152) - Dai Shogi.
Large armies including a multi-capturing Lion battle each other on a big board
🧡 5 (3.103) - Hannibal Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board
🧡 5 (3.096) - Catapults of Troy by Gary Gifford.
Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses!
🧡 5 (3.058) - Fantasy Grand Chess by Peter Hatch.
Variant of Grand Chess with different armies and fantasy theme.
🧡 5 (2.945) - Modern Chess by Gabriel Vicente Maura.
Variant on a 9 by 9 board with piece that combines bishop and knight moves
🧡 5 (2.887) - Hectochess by A. M. DeWitt💖.
10x10 variant that can be played with 2 mismatched Chess sets.
🧡 5 (2.870) - Hex Shogi 91 by Fergus Duniho💖.
A hexagonal Shogi variant on a 91-space board
🧡 5 (2.842) - Universal Chess by Carlos Cetina.
Introducing castling and the possibility of Black making the drops before White.
🧡 5 (2.753) - Perfect 12 by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
36 pieces per player on 12 by 12 board.
🧡 5 (2.729) - Xhess by David Howe.
Decimal variant with Nightriders and Cannons.
🧡 5 (2.681) - Renniassance Chess by Eric Greenwood.
With 68 pieces on board of 12 by 12.
🧡 5 (2.638) - Seireigi by A. M. DeWitt💖.
Variant of standard Shogi with promotable Gold Generals, as well as more varied and animalistic promotions.
🧡 5 (2.633) - Kamikaze Mortal Shogi by Fergus Duniho💖 and Roberto Lavieri.
Send your Kamikazes on suicide missions in this Shogi variant
🧡 5 (2.563) - Progressive Chess.
Several variants where white moves one time, black twice, white three times, etc.
🧡 5 (2.552) - Cavalier Chess by Fergus Duniho.
All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement
🧡 5 (2.482) - Zanzibar-S by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
A game in between Metamachy and Zanzibar-XL with 36 pieces per side. Preferred by some to the -XL version
🧡 5 (2.369) - Hostage Chess by John Leslie.
Pieces taken are held hostage and can be exchanged against other pieces and then dropped.
🧡 5 (2.344) - Grasshopper Chess by Joseph Boyer.
Each player has eight additional grasshoppers.
🧡 5 (1.952) - Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added by David Howe.
On a 10 row by 8 column board, with three new pieces.
🧡 5 (1.777) - Al-Ces by Köksal Karakus.
Variant on 10 by 10 board with 30 pieces per player

🧡 4 (3.498) - For the Crown by Jeremy Lennert.
A commercial crossover with deck-building games
🧡 4 (2.989) - Paco Shako by Felix Albers.
Pieces coexist peacefully on target square after capture
🧡 4 (2.914) - Beast Chess by Bob Greenwade💖.
Replace conventional pieces with those that look like animals
🧡 4 (2.840) - AltOrth Hex Chess by Charles Gilman.
Hexagonal variant using pieces moving only one way along each orthogonal
🧡 4 (2.590) - Maasai Chess by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including both regular and rapid Pawns
🧡 4 (2.582) - Gigachess by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
On 14 by 14 board with 20 different pieces
🧡 4 (2.556) - Knightmate by Bruce Zimov.
Win by mating the knight
🧡 4 (2.529) - Anti-King Chess by Peter Aronson.
Each player has both a King and an Anti-King to protect; Anti-Kings are in check when not attacked
🧡 4 (2.416) - Maxima by Roberto Lavieri.
Maxima is an interesting and exiting variant of Ultima, with new elements that make Maxima more clear and dynamic.
🧡 4 (2.396) - Enhanced Courier Chess by Daniel Zacharias.
Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced
🧡 4 (2.386) - Chess-Battle by A. Yurgelevich.
War variant from the Soviet-Union, 1933
🧡 4 (2.378) - Chess+ by Nick Bentley and Christian Freeling.
Players choose when and where to place their pieces behind the pawns.
🧡 4 (2.378) - Petteia XXI by Jose Carrillo💖.
A 21st century variant on an ancient Draughts-like game of the Roman empire.
🧡 4 (2.339) - Magnetic Chess by João Neto and Claude Chaunier.
Pieces that moved attract and repel pieces like magnets
🧡 4 (2.336) - Lions and Unicorns Chess by David Paulowich.
With the 16 standard pieces and 4 powerful leapers.
🧡 4 (2.261) - Atomic chess by Nassah Taher.
Pieces explode when captured.
🧡 4 (2.238) - Tetrahedral Chess by Mark Thompson.
Three dimensional variant with board in form of tetrahedron.
🧡 4 (2.204) - Command and Maneuver: A Tale of Two Countries by Joe Joyce💖.
This is a diceless wargame,
🧡 4 (2.181) - Neutral King Chess by Vernon Parton.
V.R. Parton's game where two armies share a King both must try to mate.
🧡 4 (2.102) - Separate Realms Chess by Michael Nelson and Peter Aronson.
Pieces capture like normal FIDE pieces, but have limited moves that only take them to part of the board when not capturing
🧡 4 (2.059) - Treeleaders Chess by Erez Schatz.
Large variant with non-similar armies.
🧡 4 (2.058) - Jester Chess by Thomas Havel.
Large variant, with four new pieces including Jester that imitates opponents last type of move.
🧡 4 (2.053) - Elven Chess by H. G. Muller.
10x10 variant with 4 new pieces, of which one can double-capture.
🧡 4 (2.052) - Eight-Stone Chess by Jim Aikin.
On an 8 by 9 board with eight neutral stones
🧡 4 (1.961) - Wildebeest Decimal Chess by Erik Lerouge.
A Wildebeest Chess adaptation to the decimal board.
🧡 4 (1.941) - Circular Chess by Dave Reynolds.
Chess on a round board.
🧡 4 (1.940) - Shatranj Kamil X by David Paulowich💖.
Shatranj Kamil, with new pieces from Jetan, Shogi and Xiangqi
🧡 4 (1.901) - Cylindrical Chess.
Sides of the board are supposed to be connected
🧡 4 (1.890) - Butterfly Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Large board chess with butterflies (not Ns), advancers (not Qs) & flying dragons added
🧡 4 (1.822) - Maorider Chess by Vitya Makov.
Maorider and king with unusual recruiting abilities
🧡 4 (1.804) - Duck Chess by Tim Paulden.
A Duck that must be moved by both players can block your moves
🧡 4 (1.788) - Courier-Spiel.
19th century variant of Courier Chess.
🧡 4 (1.622) - Pocket Shogi Plus by wdtr2💖.
Shogi Like game with a pocket to store and move pieces
🧡 4 (1.613) - Teramachy by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
A chess variant between Metamachy and Terachess
🧡 4 (1.566) - Sittuyin (Burmese Chess).
🧡 4 (1.230) - Chigorin Chess by Ralph Betza.
White has knights instead of bishops and a chancellor for his queen; black has bishops instead of knights

🧡 3 (2.968) - Existentialist Chess by David Short.
10x10 board with many different pieces.
🧡 3 (2.580) - Horseman's Chess by Frank MacCrory💖.
Game where pieces mount and dismount
🧡 3 (2.572) - Advanced Wizard Chess by Paul Newton💖 and Andrew Newton.
Chess variant on 10 by 10 board with fantasy chess pieces
🧡 3 (2.572) - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEX! Chess by (zzo38) A. Black.
A game designed to be as different to chess as possible while still being the same as chess
🧡 3 (2.411) - Pemba by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
Extension of Shako, with 60 pieces
🧡 3 (2.400) - Tridimensional Chess (Star Trek) by Andrew Bartmess.
Three-dimensional chess from Star Trek.
🧡 3 (2.357) - Darkness Chess by Jens Nielsen.
You have only limited information on where your opponents pieces are
🧡 3 (2.352) - King's Court by Sidney LeVasseur.
Variant on 8 by 12 board with Chancellors and Jesters.
🧡 3 (2.332) - Chess 2 - The Sequel by David Sirlin.
Different armies, a new winning condition, and duels
🧡 3 (2.233) - Mansindam by Daphne Snowmoon💖.
A variant that combines 'drop' rule and strong pieces, and there is no draw
🧡 3 (2.223) - Heroes Hexagonal Chess version 2 by Tony Quintanilla💖.
Updated version of Heroes Hexagonal Chess in 91 hexes.
🧡 3 (2.195) - Quinquereme Chess by Jörg Knappen💖.
Large variant with a new piece, the Quinquereme.
🧡 3 (2.179) - Dobutsu Shogi by Madoka Kitao.
The smallest Shogi variant made for kids to learn Shogi.
🧡 3 (2.123) - Invasion by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
A military inspired Chess variant played on an 84-squares board.
🧡 3 (2.113) - Hanga Roa by Hernán Domínguez Placencia and Juan Pablo Schweitzer Kirsinger.
A chess variant inspired by the people of Easter Island.
🧡 3 (2.102) - Shinobi Chess by Daniel Lee.
Asymmetric variant where one army has droppable Shogi-inspired pieces that start in hand.
🧡 3 (2.032) - Chaturanga for four players..
Oldest multiplayer chess variant.
🧡 3 (2.028) - Cataclysm by Greg Strong💖.
Large board game with short-range pieces designed to be dramatic without being overly complicated or dragging on too long
🧡 3 (2.014) - Marseillais Chess.
Move twice per turn
🧡 3 (1.969) - TessChess by Ben Reiniger💖.
4D chess featuring symmetrically-moving pieces
🧡 3 (1.947) - Latrunculi XXI by Jose Carrillo💖.
A 21st century variant on an ancient Chess-like game of the Roman empire
🧡 3 (1.947) - Seenschach by Jörg Knappen💖.
Variant on 10 by 10 board with lake in the middle and new pieces
🧡 3 (1.941) - PiRaTeKnIcS by David Jagger.
Pirates on ships fight each other in 44-squares chess variant
🧡 3 (1.915) - Klin Zha by Leonard Loyd Jr..
Chesslike game played by Klingons from Star Trek on triangular board.
🧡 3 (1.899) - Hiashatar.
Mongolian Great Chess played on a 10x10 board with a pair of Bodyguard pieces per side
🧡 3 (1.885) - Typhoon (Revised) by Adrian King.
Corrected link.
🧡 3 (1.804) - Kriegspiel by Henry Temple.
With help of a referee, two players move without knowing the moves of the opponent
🧡 3 (1.781) - Wild Kingdom by Nick Wolff.
Animal armies battle for control of the Wild Kingdom!
🧡 3 (1.750) - Viking Chess by Tomas Forsman.
Armies start side-by-side on a 12 x 7 board
🧡 3 (1.736) - Backlash by Greg Strong💖.
Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other!
🧡 3 (1.735) - Enochian Chess.
Four-player team variant of the Golden Dawn
🧡 3 (1.704) - Chieftain Chess by Joe Joyce💖.
This is a large variant using 4 royal pieces. It features command control and multi-piece moves.
🧡 3 (1.670) - Flipworld by JohnRyan.
Pieces are on both sides of a disc
🧡 3 (1.638) - Fantastic XIII by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
A bizarre large odd chess variant with the weirdest men from Cazaux's family
🧡 3 (1.633) - Chennis by Daniel Lee.
Kyoto-Shogi-inspired variant (with alternating piece sides), with a tennis theme
🧡 3 (1.633) - Empire Chess by Daniel Lee.
Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like queens but capture differently.
🧡 3 (1.633) - Zo Shogi by Daphne Snowmoon💖.
A variant of Sho Shogi in which Drop rule is included and Prince (promoted Elephant) is a non-royal King.
🧡 3 (1.621) - Seeping Switchers by Jörg Knappen💖.
An army for Chess with Different Armies based on pieces that change color when they move.
🧡 3 (1.621) - Switching Realms Chess by Jörg Knappen💖.
All noncapturing moves must change the board subset a piece occupies
🧡 3 (1.551) - Crazy 38's by Ben Good.
On strange board with 38 squares.
🧡 3 (1.542) - Smess by Perry Grant.
Produced and sold in the early 70's by Parker Brothers. Arrows on squares determine direction pieces can move.
🧡 3 (1.534) - Bombalot by Bruce Harper.
Bombs can wipe out most pieces on the board.
🧡 3 (1.534) - Chaturanga - Four Kings - Double Mate .
🧡 3 (1.534) - Frog Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board
🧡 3 (1.518) - Chessgi.
Drop the pieces you take from your opponent.
🧡 3 (1.480) - European Chess by AlexNisnevich.
A multiplayer, different armies form of chess.
🧡 3 (1.478) - Chess with Batteries by Roberto Lavieri.
Special Battery piece which augments the powers of other pieces.
🧡 3 (1.443) - Voidrider Chess by Fergus Duniho💖.
A 43 square variant with movable spaces
🧡 3 (1.396) - Skica by Daniel Zacharias.
10x10 with Ski Pieces and Camels
🧡 3 (1.384) - Grand Apothecary Chess-Alert by Aurelian Florea💖.
Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games
🧡 3 (1.381) - Nachtmahr by Jörg Knappen.
Game with seven different kinds of Nightriders
🧡 3 (1.368) - Capablanca Shatranj by Christine Bagley-Jones.
Capablanca Chess with Chancellor and Archbishop replaced by Shatranj type pieces
🧡 3 (1.368) - Kinglet by Vernon Parton.
Win by taking all the pawns of the opponent
🧡 3 (1.368) - Mimic Chess by Nick Wolff.
Chess on a larger board with 3 new pieces with constantly changing movement capabilities.
🧡 3 (1.368) - Pink Chess by H. G. Muller.
White has two Kings, black two Queens as royal pieces
🧡 3 (1.368) - Yáng Qí by Fergus Duniho.
Yankee ingenuity adds new power to Chinese Chess
🧡 3 (1.329) - Berolina Chess by Edmund Hebermann.
Different moving pawns
🧡 3 (1.320) - Zanzibar-XL by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Further step after Metamachy. 80 pieces of 19 different pieces, with historical lineage
🧡 3 (1.227) - Double Chess by David Short.
On 16 by 8 board
🧡 3 (1.225) - Cheskers by Solomon Golomb.
Cross-variant between chess and checkers.
🧡 3 (1.224) - Assimilation Chess by Fergus Duniho.
Increase your material by assimilating your opponent's pieces.
🧡 3 (1.202) - Macadamia Shogi by H. G. Muller.
Pieces promote on capture to multi-capturing monsters
🧡 3 (1.186) - Great Chess.
An Indian/Turkish and very playable historic variant on a 10 by 10 board.
🧡 3 (1.179) - Shatranji by Fergus Duniho.
A hybrid of Shatranj and Chessgi.
🧡 3 (1.166) - Atlantean Barroom Shatranj by Joe Joyce.
Atlantean Barroom Shatranj Rules
🧡 3 (1.160) - Chess on a Really Big Board by Ralph Betza.
Chess on multiple chess boards
🧡 3 (1.152) - Maka Dai Dai Shogi.
Pieces promote on capture, some to multi-capturing monsters
🧡 3 (1.152) - Nutty Shogi by H. G. Muller.
Pieces jump over many others, and a Fire Demon burns neighbors
🧡 3 (1.152) - Tengu Dai Shogi.
Turbo version of Dai Shogi, with some Dai Dai Shogi pieces
🧡 3 (1.152) - Wa Shogi.
Game with many different rather weak pieces, with or without drops
🧡 3 (1.034) - Symmetric Chess by Carlos Cetina.
9x9 variant with extra Queen and Bishops conversion rule
🧡 3 (1.003) - Pocket Shogi Copper by wdtr2.
A Variant of Shogi with Copper General and Pocket
🧡 3 (1.000) - Sho Shogi.
Historic predecessor of shogi.
🧡 3 (1.000) - Shosu Shogi by A. M. DeWitt.
10x10 Shogi variant with Queens and more powerful promoted pieces.
🧡 3 (1.000) - Yo[n]o Shogi by Charles Gilman.
4-player Shogi variant with all 8 kinds of piece (fewer of some) on a standard Shogi board
🧡 3 (0.996) - Clockwork Orange Chess by Fergus Duniho.
Captured pieces are replaced with non-capturing counterparts.
🧡 3 (0.996) - Lemurian Shatranj by Joe Joyce.
8x8 variant that features short-range pieces
🧡 3 (0.996) - Thunder Chess by Fergus Duniho.
A hybrid of Metamorph Chess, Fusion Chess, and Assimilation Chess.
🧡 3 (0.982) - Ecumenical Chess by Charles Gilman.
Set of Variants incorporating Camels and Camel compound pieces
🧡 3 (0.934) - Charge of the Light Brigade by H. G. Muller.
Seven knights fight 3 queens, and usually win!
🧡 3 (0.920) - Mercurial Chess by Mark Hedden.
A variant on 42 squares with a satallite board and the rescue of captured pieces.
🧡 3 (0.837) - Shatar.
Mongolian chess.
🧡 3 (0.830) - Jumping Chess by Peter Aronson.
Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10
🧡 3 (0.768) - Exinox Chess by (zzo38) A. Black.
Normal chess set, new type of pieces
🧡 3 (0.768) - Shou Dou Qi: The Battle of Animals - The Jungle Game.
Simulated conflict between animal kingdoms.

🧡 2 (2.000) - Asymmetric Chess by Dmitry Eskin.
Chess with alternative units but classical types and mechanics
🧡 2 (1.952) - Nemoroth, The Game of by Ralph Betza.
For the sake of your sanity, do not read this variant!
🧡 2 (1.935) - ABC Chess by Jeff Stroud.
A variant with 8 armies of pieces generated by combining 1, 2 or 3 simpler pieces.
🧡 2 (1.845) - Dragons, Archers, and Oxen by Jim Aikin.
Chess variant on a 10 by 10 board
🧡 2 (1.825) - Tim's 3d Chess by Tim O'Lena.
On a 5x5x5 board with two kings per player
🧡 2 (1.811) - Beautiful Beasts by Jörg Knappen💖.
A new team for Chess with Different Armies based on the Roc
🧡 2 (1.690) - Wizard's War by Michael Nelson.
Game with piece-creating Wizards and a board divided into arena and enchanted sections
🧡 2 (1.674) - Diagonal pawn chess by Joel .
Pawns always move diagonally, whether capturing or not.
🧡 2 (1.642) - Tardis Taijitu by Charles Gilman.
Xiang Qi board but with movable, bigger-inside-than-outside Fortresses
🧡 2 (1.568) - Bomberman Chess by BryanLambert.
Variant on 8 by 10 board with bombs and diffusers
🧡 2 (1.566) - GraTiA by Charles Gilman.
A blend of two historic variants
🧡 2 (1.551) - Dai Seireigi by A. M. DeWitt💖.
Variant of Dai Shogi playable with drops.
🧡 2 (1.545) - TigerChess by Glenn Nicholls.
Variant themed after a medieval battle.
🧡 2 (1.519) - Remarkable Rookies by Ralph Betza.
A team for Chess with Different Armies with Rook-like pieces
🧡 2 (1.501) - Gothic Chess by Ed Trice.
A 10x8 variant using the same rules and equipment as Capablanca's Chess
🧡 2 (1.500) - Sons of Mithra by Michael Gummelt and Holly Gummelt.
Elaborate Fantasy variant with 13 different types of pieces per side
🧡 2 (1.462) - Decima by Michael Nelson.
Variant on 10 by 10 board where you win when you have 10 points on the 10th row.
🧡 2 (1.461) - Bigorra by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
A 16x16 board chess with all pieces from my variants
🧡 2 (1.445) - Royal and His Pet by Zhedric Meneses💖.
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🧡 2 (1.438) - Fischer-Benko Chess by Davor Vujacic💖.
Three pieces are placed randomly, the other five by the players.
🧡 2 (1.400) - Kinzoku by Lev Grigoriev💖.
Small variant for little ones, is based on Dobutsu but is very different from it.
🧡 2 (1.385) - Embassy Chess by Kevin Hill.
A 10x8 variant based on Grand Chess
🧡 2 (1.319) - Flip Chess and Flip Shogi by John Brown.
Pieces have two sides with different movements on board of 38 squares.
🧡 2 (1.289) - Capablanca Random Chess by Reinhard Scharnagl.
Randomized setup for Capablanca chess
🧡 2 (1.285) - Amazons by Walter Zamkauskas.
Queens fire arrows to make squares unpassable. Last player that moves wins.
🧡 2 (1.282) - Avalanche chess by Ralph Betza.
A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns
🧡 2 (1.282) - Dueling Archbishops by JasonWittman.
Chess variant on 2 by 3 board
🧡 2 (1.277) - Hnefatafl - the Strategic Board Game of the Vikings.
Detailed rules and history of a Chess-like game played for 100's of years in Northern Europe
🧡 2 (1.270) - Yonin Seireigi by A. M. DeWitt💖.
Four-player variant of Seireigi based on Yonin Shogi.
🧡 2 (1.269) - Macrochess by Robert Potter.
🧡 2 (1.254) - Yangsi by A. M. DeWitt💖.
A very playable chess variant with 12 different pieces on a 10x10 board.
🧡 2 (1.233) - Orda Mirror by Daniel Lee.
Symmetric battle using the Horde armies from Orda Chess
🧡 2 (1.225) - Granlem Shatranj by Joe Joyce💖.
This is a mash-up of Grand Shatranj & Lemurian Shatranj with a 3 moves/player turn option
🧡 2 (1.225) - Hyperchess4 by Joe Joyce💖.
Hyperchess updated: changed rules, discussion, sample game, etc
🧡 2 (1.216) - Chessembly by JT K.
Open Board Setup, Free Placement Chess
🧡 2 (1.211) - Lines of Relay (LoR) by Jörg Knappen💖.
Chess variant featuring a new type of morphing piece, the Lore apprentice, on a standard board together with the standard pieces
🧡 2 (1.211) - Knightmare Chess.
The American version of Tempete sur l'Echiquier
🧡 2 (1.207) - 12 Sharp Chess by Charles Gilman.
4-player versions of 10-or-more-file variants on cross-shaped boards
🧡 2 (1.200) - Racing Kings by Vernon Parton.
From a special setup, be the first to have your king reach the last row
🧡 2 (1.190) - Deception Chess by Greg Shanker💖.
Each piece has two identities, Cloak and concealed Base
🧡 2 (1.171) - Euchess by Carlos Cetina.
Grand chess variant on 10 by 10 board
🧡 2 (1.164) - Heavy Chess by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
A high-density chess-variant-variant
🧡 2 (1.147) - Altair by Roberto Lavieri.
Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor.
🧡 2 (1.143) - Mad Chess by JasonWittman.
Chess variant with unequal armies on 10 by 10 board.
🧡 2 (1.136) - Aliens vs Predators by Namik Zade.
🧡 2 (1.136) - Congo by Demian Freeling.
Animals fight on 7 by 7 board.
🧡 2 (1.136) - Ganymede Chess by Mark Hedden.
A 12x12 variant inspired by Ralph Betza's Chess on a really big board, Centennial Chess and Adrian King's Typhoon (among others)
🧡 2 (1.136) - Hajiku Shogi by Edward Webb💖.
Inspired by Shogi and Chu Shogi. Pieces can both promote and demote in promotion zone.
🧡 2 (1.136) - Parachess by Tony Paletta.
Chess on a rhombus-tiled board.
🧡 2 (1.136) - Rotor-blades Chess by David Cannon💖.
Game played on a board that is both circular and trigonal.
🧡 2 (1.136) - Round Honeycomb Chess by David Cannon💖.
A cross between Circular/Cylindrical Chess and Hexagonal Chess.
🧡 2 (1.136) - Thuria Jetan by Fredrik Ekman💖.
Jetan variant played on standard chessboard
🧡 2 (1.119) - Gess by Archimedeans Society.
A Chess variant played on a Go board where pieces are collections of go stones
🧡 2 (1.115) - Byelorussian Cheskers by N. Grushevsky.
Crossover between chess and Russian draughts.
🧡 2 (1.115) - Take Over Chess by Tony Quintanilla.
Jump across pieces to take them over from your opponent.
🧡 2 (1.107) - Odin's Rune Chess by Gary Gifford.
A game inspired by Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity, runes, and Nordic Mythology.
🧡 2 (1.103) - Whale Shogi by R. Schmittberger.
Shogi variant.
🧡 2 (1.090) - Chad by Christian Freeling.
Castles and walls in a strategic deep chess variant.
🧡 2 (1.082) - Royal Lion Chess by Michael Nelson.
Chess with a Royal Lion and many strong pieces.
🧡 2 (1.078) - Insurrection by Fogus.
Capturing causes promotion, demotion, or a coup in the opponent's ranks
🧡 2 (1.078) - Jumping Knights Chess by David Paulowich.
Nightriders replace Knights and War Machines have also been added to Jumping Chess.
🧡 2 (1.078) - Threatened Pawn Chess by Sydney Schultz.
Pawns start in threatened positions.
🧡 2 (1.073) - Epic Chess by Вадря Покштя💖.
Massive attack chess on a board 10x10
🧡 2 (1.066) - Jupiter (Revised) by Adrian King.
🧡 2 (1.066) - Typhoon by Adrian King.
Variant on 12 by 12 board with many different pieces.
🧡 2 (1.066) - Refusal Chess by Fred Galvin.
Refuse your opponent to make certain moves.
🧡 2 (1.024) - UC-170-13 by Carlos Cetina.
Universal Chess version featuring 170 different kind of major pieces and 13 different kind of pawns.
🧡 2 (1.022) - Grand Betza by John Davis.
A tribute to Ralph Betza on a 10x10 board with pawns on the third rank as in Grand Chess
🧡 2 (1.022) - Shatranj Kamil (64) by David Paulowich.
Modern Shatranj based variant on 8 by 8 board with new pieces
🧡 2 (1.018) - Armies of Faith 6: After Empire by Charles Gilman.
The last in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history
🧡 2 (1.016) - Taikyoku Shogi.
Extremely large shogi variant.
🧡 2 (1.005) - Monster Chess.
One player has only a king and four pawns, but makes double moves.
🧡 2 (1.005) - Sorcerer Chess by Charles Daniel.
Practice the art of sorcery with two pairs of extra long leaping pieces: the Sorcerers and Conjurers.
🧡 2 (1.005) - Yari Shogi by Christian Freeling.
Modern Shogi variant.
🧡 2 (0.981) - Weave and Dungeon by Dan Troyka.
Abstract game played on a board divided into Weave and Dungeon, with movement following different rules on each part
🧡 2 (0.958) - 125 Percent Shogi and 125 Percent Xiang Qi by Charles Gilman.
4-player versions of Oriental variants on cross-shaped boards
🧡 2 (0.958) - Fivequarters by Charles Gilman.
Four-player game on a cross-shaped board where most pieces can promote
🧡 2 (0.958) - Tunnelchess by Charles Gilman.
3D variant played on a stack of four Half Chess boards
🧡 2 (0.947) - Separate Realms Chess II by Jörg Knappen💖.
A Variant of Separate Realms Chess with standard FIDE King, and more powerful Knights and Queens
🧡 2 (0.914) - Hia Chess by Jose Carrillo.
Smaller 9x8 variation of the Mongolian Hiashatar
🧡 2 (0.914) - Historia Ŝako by Siwakorn Songrag.
Historia Ŝako is a Chess variant incorporated between western and eastern variants, by track movement of Elephant and Queen.
🧡 2 (0.868) - Balbo's chess by M Balbo.
Board with a strange shape designed to make Bishops stronger in relation to Rooks
🧡 2 (0.868) - Secutor Chess by M Winther.
Introducing the Secutor piece, and new collision-capture, on a Gustavian board (zrf available).
🧡 2 (0.859) - Minotaur Chess by Frank Truelove.
Variant with board turned 45 degrees
🧡 2 (0.859) - Panoply by Daniel Zacharias💖.
A large hexagonal game with unusual pieces
🧡 2 (0.825) - Captain Spalding Chess by Ralph Betza.
Find an Elephant in your Pajamas
🧡 2 (0.825) - Round Table Chess by Richard VanDeventer.
Chess variant on a board with round and square part.
🧡 2 (0.818) - Tiger Chess by Daniel Zacharias.
A large game with fast-moving pieces
🧡 2 (0.818) - Vanguard Chess by Bob Greenwade💖.
Game on 16x16 board, with 48 pieces per player
🧡 2 (0.810) - Pizza Kings by John Lawson.
An experimental army for Chess with Different Armies, with lots of calories.
🧡 2 (0.785) - Heavy Shako by Eric Silverman💖 and Jean-Louis Cazaux.
10x10 variant inspired by Yangsi, made by Eric Silverman and Jean-Louis Cazaux.
🧡 2 (0.781) - Gala.
Medieval game of German farmers.
🧡 2 (0.767) - Guru Mahachaturanga by Charles Gilman.
2d India-specific offshoot of AOF series
🧡 2 (0.767) - Russian fortress chess.
An old Russian variant for four players.
🧡 2 (0.763) - 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj by Kevin Pacey💖.
Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range
🧡 2 (0.763) - 4*Chess (four dimensional chess) by Kevin Pacey💖.
Four dimensional chess using sixteen 4x4 boards & 96 pieces.
🧡 2 (0.702) - Grand Apothecary Chess-Classic by Aurelian Florea💖.
Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games
🧡 2 (0.702) - Grand Apothecary Chess-Modern by Aurelian Florea💖.
Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games
🧡 2 (0.694) - Pocket knight.
Each player has a knight that he can drop during the game.
🧡 2 (0.686) - Golden Age Chess On a Really Big Board by Ralph Betza.
Variant on 16 by 16 board with several different pieces
🧡 2 (0.686) - Wide Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Chess with 2 types of non-colourbound elephants added on a 12x8 board using fast castling rules
🧡 2 (0.686) - Wide Nightrider Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Chess on a 12x10 board with Nightriders, Champions and fast castling rules
🧡 2 (0.636) - Hex Shogi by Fergus Duniho.
A new family of hexagonal Shogi variants.
🧡 2 (0.636) - Salmon P. Chess by Dale Holmes.
Huge three-dimensional game celebrating 10 years chess variant pages
🧡 2 (0.633) - Absorption Chess.
Pieces gain the powers of a piece they take
🧡 2 (0.633) - AIGO Chess by Feng Jun.
International chess with Cannon pieces added.
🧡 2 (0.633) - Center of Attention.
In addition to regular rules, win by moving your King to a center square.
🧡 2 (0.633) - Elena Chess by Sergey Sirotkin.
Chess on 5 by 6 board.
🧡 2 (0.633) - Faceoff Chess by Lev Grigoriev💖.
Chess with big moving restrictions for kings.
🧡 2 (0.617) - Cannon Shosu Shogi by A. M. DeWitt.
Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons.
🧡 2 (0.617) - Decimaka by H. G. Muller.
Game where pieces promote on making a capture
🧡 2 (0.597) - Vyremorn Chess by Nathan McDonald.
Large variant on two overlapping square boards.
🧡 2 (0.597) - War of the Worlds by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Chess army from planet Earth against the Martian forces of Jetan
🧡 2 (0.536) - Dunsany's Chess by Edward Plunkett.
32 pawns play against a full set of pieces.
🧡 2 (0.536) - Horizons by Lev Grigoriev💖.
Game with 5 new pieces on 12x12 board
🧡 2 (0.536) - Ryugi by A. M. DeWitt.
10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider
🧡 2 (0.536) - Stone Garden Chess by Lev Grigoriev💖.
The animal statues in the stone garden came to life and attacked the two rival kings! With the help of a policeman each, they…
🧡 2 (0.534) - Brotherhood chess by Gianluca Vecchi.
Pieces cannot take pieces of the same type
🧡 2 (0.534) - Heavy Gravity Chess by Gary Gifford.
Chess with heavy gravity, Knights can't jump, Queens, Bishops, and Rooks are limited to 4 spaces per move, Kings move 1 diagonal
🧡 2 (0.534) - Metamorph Chess by Fergus Duniho.
Variant in which pieces transform by fixed rules into other pieces.
🧡 2 (0.534) - Unicorn Chess by David Paulowich.
10x10 variant with a new piece that moves as a Bishop or a Nightrider.
🧡 2 (0.520) - Abecedarian Big Chess (ABChess) by Glenn Overby II.
Buy-your-own-army variant on a big board; 26 piece types.
🧡 2 (0.520) - Cashew Shogi by H. G. Muller.
Many pieces must promote on capture, and some can multi-capture
🧡 2 (0.520) - Dai Dai Shogi.
Historical large Shogi variant
🧡 2 (0.520) - Hishigata Shogi by Sean Humby.
Variation of Maka-Dai-Dai Shogi (ultra large Shogi).
🧡 2 (0.520) - Hunterbeest by Charles Gilman.
Large variant with one each of distinctive Nimrod pieces, and of similar set of oblique pieces
🧡 2 (0.520) - Ito Shogi by Jonathan Rutherford.
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🧡 2 (0.520) - Knavish Shatranj by Jörg Knappen.
Shatranj with Knaves and Debtors
🧡 2 (0.520) - Millennial Chess by John Brown.
Variant on 12 by 12 board with new pieces.
🧡 2 (0.520) - Mosaic Chess by Daniel Zacharias.
Large variant combining pieces from various other games
🧡 2 (0.520) - Turkish Great Chess, variation II.
Gollon's large historical variant.
🧡 2 (0.520) - Two Large Shatranj Variants by Joe Joyce.
🧡 2 (0.368) - Almost chess by Ralph Betza.
One queen has combined rook and knight moves.
🧡 2 (0.368) - Banner Xiangqi by A. M. DeWitt.
Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules.
🧡 2 (0.368) - Chameleon Chess by P. Magnus.
Each player has a King and 11 Chameleons whose moves are determined by the type of square they are on
🧡 2 (0.368) - Chessence by Jim Winslow.
Variant on a 9 x 6 board with 8 missing squares, immobile Kings, and 9 pieces whose movement depends on their spatial relation
🧡 2 (0.368) - Lion Chess by Joseph Boyer.
Replaces the riders in Chess with hoppers
🧡 2 (0.368) - Schachdame by Heinrich Richter.
Variant between Checkers and Chess
🧡 2 (0.368) - Tiger Hunt by David Paulowich.
Variant of The Maharaja and the Sepoys
🧡 2 (0.368) - ZM Machiavellian Quadchess by John Zimmerman.
Modernization of Chaturanga for four players

🧡 1 (1.000) - 123456 Chess by (zzo38) A. Black💖.
Uses 2 dices for each player and 2 checkers for each player, in addition to normal chess pieces.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Action Man's Chess by Francois Tremblay.
A small (5x6) board and simple pieces ensures lots of easy-to-understand action.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Alapo by Johannes Tranelis.
Game with abstract pieces. Reach opponents first row on 6 by 6 board.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Apocalypse by C. Elliott.
Small variant of knights and pawns; objective is to take all pawns
🧡 1 (1.000) - Arena Cheturshogqi by Paul Newton💖.
2-4 Players on large board with mutating pieces and piece drops.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Bachelor Nimrod by Charles Gilman.
Small variant with one each of distinctive Nimrod pieces, and of Knight
🧡 1 (1.000) - Blender Chess by Bob Greenwade.
Bishops, Knights and Rooks can merge and separate
🧡 1 (1.000) - Cetina Random Chess by Carlos Cetina.
Play with a sissa and a chancellor from a randomly generated setup.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Chariots by David Jagger.
Standard pieces start as pairs with shared capabilities, but can separate and recombine.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Chess 960 by Robert Fischer.
Randomized setup; also known as Fischer Random Chess
🧡 1 (1.000) - Chess with checkers added by (zzo38) A. Black💖.
Add checkers in front of the pawns
🧡 1 (1.000) - Chess with Promoters by Roberto Lavieri.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Complete Chess by Thomas .
with a riding and a leaping piece family
🧡 1 (1.000) - echess by bp 💖.
(Micro) Evolutionary CHESS game
🧡 1 (1.000) - Grand Shatranj N W by Mark Simpson💖.
Shatranj with 10 individual pieces + pawns per army
🧡 1 (1.000) - Half Chess by John Groeneman.
On a 4 by 8 board without pawns.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Hybrids by ArtemShvorin.
Standard pieces combine and split.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Jetan, the game of by Edgar Burroughs.
Extensive discussion of various versions of the rules of Jetan
🧡 1 (1.000) - King of the Hill by Paul Newton💖.
Be the first player to get your King to the top of the hill!
🧡 1 (1.000) - Korean Random Chess by Jose Carrillo💖.
A Korean Chess variation with a random setup and a few new rules
🧡 1 (1.000) - Kyou Shogi by Edward Webb💖.
Modified Chu Shogi with pieces from and inspired by Tenjiku Shogi, featuring jumping pieces and Fire Demons.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Maces, Horse-apults, and Tulpas by Gary Gifford.
The game of Maces and Horse-apults with the likely use of tulpas pieces.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Matrix Chess by David Cannon💖.
Chess played on a tessellation of pentagons and diamonds. The name comes from the matrix in which diamonds are found.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Mini HexChess by Dave McCooey.
Small hexagonal chess variant.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Modern Random Chess by Jose Carrillo💖.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Noble WingS Chess by Mark Simpson💖.
Noble Wing - with twice as many variant pieces.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Outback Chess by Timothy Newton.
New pieces on plus-shaped board
🧡 1 (1.000) - Riftwalker Chess by Nick Fletcher💖.
A 4 dimensional game on a 3x3x3x3 board.
🧡 1 (1.000) - Saisho shogi by Francesco Fonseca💖.
Game with one dice-shaped shared piece
🧡 1 (1.000) - Through the Looking-Glass by Paolo 💖.
Alice chess, but you see only a board
🧡 1 (1.000) - Unconventional Warfare Chess by Luiz Campos.
Variant based on modern warfare
🧡 1 (1.000) - Wand Chess by Ralph Betza.
Pieces have a magic wand, that gives random outcomes
🧡 1 (0.984) - Citadel by Karen Robinson.
Simple chess variant from early 20th century on 45 degrees turned board.
🧡 1 (0.984) - Fighting Chess by Tony Berard.
A reform to Chess that eliminates stalemate and strengthens some of the pieces.
🧡 1 (0.984) - File Sharing Chess by JT K.
File Sharing, pawn swapping, always passed pawns
🧡 1 (0.984) - Lancers Chess by JT K.
chess with lancer piece, lancers instead of knights
🧡 1 (0.984) - Share Squares by JT K.
AKA Two's Company; Three's a Crowd
🧡 1 (0.968) - Archchess by Dr. Francesco Piacenza.
Large chess variant from 17th century Italy.
🧡 1 (0.968) - Bird's Chess by Henry Bird.
Chess variant on 10 by 8 board from 19th century England
🧡 1 (0.968) - Byzantine chess.
A variant of Shatranj, played on a round board.
🧡 1 (0.968) - Cat's Chess by (zzo38) A. Black.
🧡 1 (0.968) - Chesimals: Autonomous Multi-unit Pieces by Joe Joyce.
self-contained autonomous multi-square pieces
🧡 1 (0.968) - Chess Empire by Harry Jackson.
Large four player chess variant
🧡 1 (0.968) - Fianchetto Chess by Jack Middleman.
Rooks and bishops switched in opening setup
🧡 1 (0.968) - Fibonacci Chess by David Bradley.
Players can make multiple moves per turn, the number determined by the fast growing Fibonacci sequence
🧡 1 (0.968) - Four seasons chess..
Medieval multiplayer chess variant on 8 by 8 board.
🧡 1 (0.968) - Hadean Chess by Charles Daniel.
Expanded chess with short-range linear jumpers, augmented knights and zebras and more dynamic pawns.
🧡 1 (0.968) - Hindustani Chess by _unknown.
19th century Indian game.
🧡 1 (0.968) - Isis and Cam by Charles Gilman.
Two variants based on ancient English universities and the rivers near them
🧡 1 (0.968) - Stealth Chess by Dice Corporation.
Commercial game with elements from Chess and from Stratego
🧡 1 (0.968) - TRiPLiCiTY by David Jagger.
Three player hexagonal chess variant
🧡 1 (0.952) - AAUUGHH! Chess by Adam Norberg.
After every move, there's a 1 in 18 chance of the rules switching to another in a list of variants
🧡 1 (0.952) - LiQi by Larry Smith.
Very Strong Chess
🧡 1 (0.952) - Shambhala chess by Daniil Frolov.
Maybe, it's the misterious first form of chess? Actually, most probably, not.
🧡 1 (0.952) - Wildebeast9 by wdtr2💖.
A Variant of Wildebeast Chess
🧡 1 (0.938) - 88 Hexagons Chess by Davor Vujacic💖.
Hexagonal chess on chessboard with 88 hexagons
🧡 1 (0.938) - Angels and Devils by Greg Strong.
Chess game where white has two Angels and black has two Devils
🧡 1 (0.938) - Battle of Kings by Вадря Покштя💖.
You start with eight pawns. The rest chess pieces appear on the board during the game.
🧡 1 (0.938) - Conservative Capablanca Chess by Davor Vujacic💖 and David Paulowich.
Alternative, more traditional Capablanca chess setup
🧡 1 (0.938) - Double Move Double Chess by Вадря Покштя💖.
The game is played on a 8x16 chessboard with each player in control of two complete armies.
🧡 1 (0.938) - Fairy Eater Chess by Вадря Покштя💖.
Game on a 9x9 board with fairy chess pieces
🧡 1 (0.938) - Grand Dice Chess by Вадря Покштя💖.
Grand Dice Chess Battle on a 12x12 board with four dice
🧡 1 (0.938) - Grand Triple Chess by Вадря Покштя💖.
Chess on an 16 x 24 board (i.e. six boards) with 3 sets of pieces.
🧡 1 (0.938) - Hubbub by Greg Strong.
A variant of Bruhaha with more short-range pieces
🧡 1 (0.938) - Perfect Chess by Köksal Karakus.
On 8 by 8 board with combination pieces.
🧡 1 (0.938) - Total Symmetry Chess by Davor Vujacic💖.
24 random balanced symmetrical starting positions
🧡 1 (0.938) - Tremendous Chess by Вадря Покштя💖.
Tremendous Chess is a large chess variant that is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 112 pieces per player.
🧡 1 (0.938) - VD Chess by Davor Vujacic💖.
VD Chess is a game of random chess with 5,760 possible starting positions and with fairy pieces.
🧡 1 (0.909) - Extra Move Chess by Fergus Duniho💖.
Double-move variant based on limitations of Zillions of Games
🧡 1 (0.882) - Cannons of Chesstonia by Gary Gifford.
Cannons launch a Pawn, Wazir, Ferz and Stone to increase strategical and tactical play.
🧡 1 (0.882) - Gufuu Shogi by Georg Dunkel.
Tiny variant on a 2x3 board with four pieces.
🧡 1 (0.882) - Knight Court by JasonWittman.
Mate the knight with three pieces per player on a three by three board.
🧡 1 (0.882) - Koopa Chess by Ralph Betza.
Form of chess based on the Mario Brothers series of video games.
🧡 1 (0.882) - Mir Chess by David Paulowich.
Modern Shatranj based variant with with Chinese cannons.
🧡 1 (0.870) - Chess with Ultima, Rococo and Supremo Pieces by Peter Aronson and George Dekle.
A series of variants with the Orthochess array transplanted to a 10x10 board and various exotic pieces added
🧡 1 (0.870) - Chu Seireigi by A. M. DeWitt💖.
Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops.
🧡 1 (0.870) - Ki Shogi by Larry Smith.
Variant of Shogi played without a board, and pieces are cubes
🧡 1 (0.870) - Kyoto Shogi.
Modern 5x5 Shogi variant where pieces promote and unpromote with every move
🧡 1 (0.870) - Maharaja and the Sepoys.
Powerful lonely king against a full set of pieces.
🧡 1 (0.870) - Variants playable against the diagram's AI by H. G. Muller.
Index of variants that can be played against the interactive diagram
🧡 1 (0.870) - Xorix Shogi by (zzo38) A. Black.
Shogi where piece movement are XORed with captured pieces
🧡 1 (0.857) - Timeline by George Marino.
Pieces travel through time on four 4 x 4 x 4 boards.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Chimera Chess by Albert Lee.
The highlight of this chess variant are the Chimera pieces, which are substantially enhanced versions of the orthodox Knight.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Corral Chess by Doug Chatham.
Force the opponent to the center in this 45/46 Cell Contest entry
🧡 1 (0.845) - Edgehog Chess by John Driver.
Three Chess variants featuring John Driver's edge-loving piece the Edgehog
🧡 1 (0.845) - Force Field Chess by Douglas Seiden-Sacharovich.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Free corners chess by Sergey Sirotkin.
In the corners of seven by seven board, three squares form together one field.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Goal Box Chess by Kevin McPartland.
Game on 42 squares with no King and the goal of placing pieces into 2 special squares.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Lemniscate Chess by David Cannon.
Chess played on a Lemniscate board (in the shape of an infinity symbol)
🧡 1 (0.845) - Maces and Horse-apults by Gary Gifford.
Chess with mace pieces and specialized catapults (horse-apults).
🧡 1 (0.845) - Nietzsche Chess by Charles Gilman.
That which does not capture a piece, makes it stronger.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Power Chess 1998 by Ronald Hoekstra.
Taken pieces can reenter.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Queens or Castles by Gary Gifford.
Name, graphics and rules modified.
🧡 1 (0.845) - SerPent Chess 50 by Charles Gilman.
Pentagonal cells form hexagonal blocks in two ways.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Star Pool Chess by Peter Aronson and Tony Quintanilla.
Large variant of Makruk, with a center non-square that acts as a bridge.
🧡 1 (0.845) - String Chess by Aaron Hall.
A one-dimensional variant with a fairy theme
🧡 1 (0.845) - Symmetron! 112 by Antoine Fourrière and Roberto Lavieri.
Large version of Symmetron!, with a third modifier.
🧡 1 (0.845) - TAXI: The Nuclear C.a.B. Chess Game by Joe Joyce.
Yet another 45-46 Square Contest entry
🧡 1 (0.845) - Terrain Chess by Ronald Drinning.
Roll dice to create impassable squares.
🧡 1 (0.845) - Twelve Mutation Chess by David Howe.
Variant that uses 12 mutators that may be activated or deactivated during the game
🧡 1 (0.845) - Xiangqi vs Orthodox Chess by Travis Z.
🧡 1 (0.822) - AltOrth with Further Piece Types by Charles Gilman.
Extending the AltOrth interpretation of hex cells to further variants
🧡 1 (0.822) - AltOrth with Hopping and Crooked pieces by Charles Gilman.
Extending the AltOrth interpretation of hex cells to further variants
🧡 1 (0.822) - Blocschach by Charles Gilman.
Not only is the size of the back rank squared, so is its composition.
🧡 1 (0.822) - Chevron Ranks by Charles Gilman.
Pieces use the "ranks" based on the Glinkshy/McCooey analogues to FIDE Pawn ranks
🧡 1 (0.822) - Courier Leapale by Charles Gilman.
Extrapolating Courier Kamil to 3 dimensions
🧡 1 (0.822) - Gutenschach by Charles Gilman.
3d variant using only planar pieces
🧡 1 (0.822) - Gyokugi by Charles Gilman.
Extends chevron ranks to analogues of Shogi generals, named after individual jewels
🧡 1 (0.822) - Ladies and Generals by Charles Gilman.
Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image
🧡 1 (0.822) - OctHex 146 by Charles Gilman.
Arranging the geometry of Tetrahedral Chess into an octahedron
🧡 1 (0.822) - Paired Piece Tunnelchess by Charles Gilman.
A new approach to the Tunnelchess first rank
🧡 1 (0.822) - Ringworld Chess by Charles Gilman.
Themed hex variant differentiating opposite directions along orthogonals
🧡 1 (0.822) - Stock Goes East 25 files by Charles Gilman.
Stockschach-style analogues to Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots
🧡 1 (0.822) - Stock Goes East 49 files by Charles Gilman.
Stockschach-style analogues to Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots
🧡 1 (0.822) - Stockschach by Charles Gilman.
3d game with "stock" 3d analogues to FIDE pieces
🧡 1 (0.822) - Tetrahedral Shogi and Tetrahedral Hexgi by Charles Gilman.
Shogi-based 3d variants on an enlargement of the Tetrahedral Chess board
🧡 1 (0.822) - Triaxial Qi by Charles Gilman.
A 3d variant based on Xiang Qi but with triaxial steppers
🧡 1 (0.822) - Waterfall Xinag-Qi by Daniil Frolov.
An elegant 3D xinag-qi variant.
🧡 1 (0.811) - Meirav by כהן דותן.
Pieces are buried before they are captured, buried pieces may capture other buried pieces.
🧡 1 (0.779) - Obento Chess by Eric Silverman and Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
12x12 Chess variant with Shogi-style promotions and bent sliding pieces
🧡 1 (0.779) - Reformed Courier-Spiel by Clément Begnis.
Begnis's attempt to reform the Courier-Spiel proposed by H.C. Albers in 1821
🧡 1 (0.779) - Rollerball by Jean-Louis Cazaux💖.
Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square.
🧡 1 (0.723) - Ajax Chess by Jose Carrillo.
All pieces have can play one square in any direction, the Mastodon leaper complements the Knight
🧡 1 (0.723) - Atlantean Coffee House Shatranj by Graeme Neatham.
Grand Hexagonal Shatranj - the short-range project goes six-sided
🧡 1 (0.723) - Wing and RiverQi by Glenn Nicholls.
New, smaller version of Dragon.
🧡 1 (0.723) - ximeracak. by Glenn Overby II.
A leaper-heavy fantasy variant designed for play with a standard set.
🧡 1 (0.690) - Duggan's Fantasy Chess by Sean Duggan.
Game where usual pieces become mercenaries, horsemen, golems, assassins and adapts
🧡 1 (0.690) - Duggan's Fantasy Chess (revised) by Sean Duggan.
Revised and Improved version of fantasy Chess variant
🧡 1 (0.690) - Elevator by Ben Good.
Three-dimensional chess variant with moving elevators and walking, vaulting and flying pieces
🧡 1 (0.690) - Jupiter by Adrian King.
Huge chess variant on 16 by 16 board.
🧡 1 (0.690) - Scirocco (original) by Adrian King.
On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces.
🧡 1 (0.690) - Time Travel Chess by Gary Gifford.
Pieces can travel into the Future. Kings can also return to the Past!
🧡 1 (0.690) - Ziggurat by Glenn Overby II.
Mesopotamian-themed variant on a 43-square board.
🧡 1 (0.682) - Dervish Chess by Benoit Dauphin.
Large variant with a great variety of pieces.
🧡 1 (0.682) - Generic Chess Piece Creation System by Guilherme Töws.
This is a system for construction of pieces, using ideas from RPG games.
🧡 1 (0.682) - Hundred Acre Chess by Bob Greenwade💖.
Chess based on Winnie-the-Pooh
🧡 1 (0.682) - Mecklenbeck Chess by Bernd Eickenscheidt.
Pawns can promote on the sixth row.
🧡 1 (0.682) - Minjiku Shogi by H. G. Muller.
Wild shogi variant, with pieces that burn neighbors or jump many pieces
🧡 1 (0.682) - Pick-the-team chess by Hans Bodlaender.
Make up a list of pieces and choose your pieces from your and your opponents list.
🧡 1 (0.682) - Scheherazade by Robert Shimmin.
Pieces may combine with other pieces to form combination pieces.
🧡 1 (0.682) - Short Sliders by Bob Greenwade💖.
Pieces are initially limited to 4 spaces (if that), and promote to longer moves
🧡 1 (0.682) - Three Realms Chess by Andrew L Smith.
A three layer variant with familiar and fantastical pieces
🧡 1 (0.682) - Zwangkrieg by Bob Greenwade💖.
Pieces affect other pieces' movement, including forced movement
🧡 1 (0.674) - 10-directional Chess by Jörg Knappen.
10-directional pieces: an augmented Knight and a restricted Chancellor.
🧡 1 (0.674) - All Around Allstars by Ralph Betza.
A set of chess pieces with different movement, that can be matched against `The Fabulous FIDEs'.
🧡 1 (0.674) - Amazon Army by Ralph Betza.
One player has an Amazon (a queen with knights move) and handicapped rooks
🧡 1 (0.674) - Colorbound Clobberers by Ralph Betza.
A team for Chess with Different Armies with many colorbound pieces
🧡 1 (0.674) - Cutty Camels by HaruN Y💖.
Army for Chess with Different Armies that features Wizard from Omega Chess.
🧡 1 (0.674) - Fearful fairies by Jörg Knappen.
An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee
🧡 1 (0.674) - Forward FIDEs by Ralph Betza.
A team for Chess with Different Armies where pieces can advancer easier than retreat
🧡 1 (0.674) - Nutty Knights by Ralph Betza.
A team for Chess with Different Armies based around the moves of the Knight
🧡 1 (0.674) - Sirlin's Chess by David Sirlin.
Alternative presentation of "Chess 2 - The Sequel"
🧡 1 (0.674) - White Elephant Chess by Peter Aronson.
Four variants pitting the white Elephant army against black with the normal FIDE array
🧡 1 (0.645) - Bario by Panos Louridas.
Pieces are undefined until they move.
🧡 1 (0.645) - Cheshire Cat Chess by Vernon Parton.
Squares are disappearing
🧡 1 (0.645) - HyperModern Shatranj by Joe Joyce.
🧡 1 (0.645) - mini-Chieftain by Joe Joyce.
One Small Multi-Move Game in Two Configurations
🧡 1 (0.645) - Omega Chess by Gabriel Vicente Maura.
Players have many pieces that can only move in the direction they point at.
🧡 1 (0.632) - Changgi.
Koreaans schaak
🧡 1 (0.632) - Four Handed Chess (I).
Information on different variants of four handed chess on plus-shaped board
🧡 1 (0.632) - Go with chess pieces by Hans Bodlaender.
Generalization of go-rules using chess pieces
🧡 1 (0.632) - Hasami Shogi.
Popular Japanese game, playable with Shogi set.
🧡 1 (0.632) - Royal Amazon Chess by Peter Aronson.
Queens are replaced by Royal Amazons
🧡 1 (0.566) - Alpaca Chess by M Winther.
Introducing the weak but interesting Alpaca, which hops one or two steps rookwise (with zrf).
🧡 1 (0.500) - ArchCourier Chess by Eric Greenwood.
This game is Courier Chess expert Eric Greenwood's modernization of Courier Chess.
🧡 1 (0.500) - Capatomic Random Chess by Gaelyn Autumnsong💖.
Variant that combines Capablanca Random and Stratomic Chess.
🧡 1 (0.500) - Ohm's Chess by Rushil Baweja💖.
A fun combination of Chess and Dota
🧡 1 (0.500) - Turnover by Lúcio José Patrocínio Filho💖.
Three ring sizes fit into each other, combining and splitting into different pieces, sometimes taking over your opponent's.
🧡 1 (0.462) - 16Chess by Zhedric Meneses💖.
Game with 4 royal pieces
🧡 1 (0.462) - CCC - The Clash of Civilizations Chess by Namik Zade.
🧡 1 (0.462) - Clash of Civilization Chess (Shuffle Version) by Namik Zade.
The Clash of Civilizations Chess (shuffle version)
🧡 1 (0.462) - I-Chess by Paul Zamă.
Large board variant that adds two more piece types: the wolf and the eagle
🧡 1 (0.462) - Janus Kamil Chess by Jörg Knappen.
A crossover between Janus Chess and Modern Kamil Chess.
🧡 1 (0.462) - Modern Kamil by Nuno Cruz.
Two variants that add the Camel to the standard Orthochess array on enlarged boards
🧡 1 (0.400) - Accelerated Chess by Max Koval.
Accelerating chess with a new board
🧡 1 (0.400) - Advanced Chess by Este.
Pawns move in a similar fashion to the pieces they start in front of
🧡 1 (0.400) - Balaklava Chess by Gianluca Vecchi.
Many pieces have additional knight moves
🧡 1 (0.400) - Berserker Pawns by Terry Jones.
Pawns may go berserk to protect their King and once per game in addition
🧡 1 (0.400) - Bridge 41 by Hubert Lamontagne.
41 square board with bridge in the middle.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Carnival of the Animals by Charles Gilman.
A nearly-FIDE variant with Eurofighter Pawns (first implementation on an 8x8 board) dice (two aside for preference) which mutate
🧡 1 (0.400) - Chazz by DavidMoeser.
Only kings and pawns. Pawns can move backwards
🧡 1 (0.400) - Chess 66 by Gerd Degens.
Board based on the 8x8 arrangement - with the difference that 66 fields are now available.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Chess on the Rope by Lev Grigoriev💖.
1d chess experimental variant with standard rules and variations.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Compromise Chess by Fred Galvin.
Propose two moves and your opponent selects one for you.
🧡 1 (0.400) - CwDA: the Shatranjian Shooters by Abdul-Rahman Sibahi and Joe Joyce.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Desert Dust by Bob Greenwade.
Large variant with Arabian-themed pieces
🧡 1 (0.400) - Diana by ? Hopwood.
Chess on a 6 by 6 board.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Dovecote Chess by Lev Grigoriev💖.
One small non-rules tweak generally changes the character and pace of gameplay.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Execute the Game by Davey Drehs.
Pieces have unique abilities and uses dice-based combat
🧡 1 (0.400) - Five Tigers.
A Chinese Chess variant with unequal armies.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Fluid Chess by Joe Joyce.
A modest variation allowing movement through friendly pieces.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Hexa Decimal by Joost aan de Brugh.
Larger hexagonal chess variant
🧡 1 (0.400) - Irrational Chess by Max Koval.
Chess game on an exotic board
🧡 1 (0.400) - King with a Shotgun by Adam Norberg.
Twice each game, the King can make a non-moving Rook capture.
🧡 1 (0.400) - Orthodia by Lev Grigoriev💖.
Break your orthogonal and diagonal patterns! (Two versions).
🧡 1 (0.400) - Queens by Gerd Degens.
A game with 7 queens and no pawns
🧡 1 (0.400) - Shafran's Hexagonal Chess by Isaak Shafran.
Hexagonal variant from the early Soviet Union
🧡 1 (0.400) - Vavulin Creative Chess by Dmitrii Vavulin.
Before the start of the game, every player, creates up with one rule for both players, which operates the whole game
🧡 1 (0.385) - Ben 39 by Ben Good.
Pieces move on squares and corners of board with 37 fixed and two movable squares.
🧡 1 (0.385) - Bilateral Chess by Antoine Fourrière.
Game on 12x8 board adding Lions, switching Cannons, Wizards and pushing Elephants, but keeping the standard array in the middle
🧡 1 (0.385) - Citadelir chess by Daphne Snowmoon.
Grand chess + Tamerlane chess + Omega Chess
🧡 1 (0.385) - Counsellor Chess by R. Wells.
Variant on 12 by 8 board that adds Elephants and Counsellors
🧡 1 (0.385) - Courier Chess Moderno by Jose Carrillo.
A modern variant of the historical variant Courier Chess
🧡 1 (0.385) - Courier de los Combinados by Charles Gilman.
A cross between Courier de la Dama and Wildebeest Chess
🧡 1 (0.385) - Dai Mitregi by Charles Gilman.
Still larger Mitregi offshoot, replacing the Generals with longer-range pieces
🧡 1 (0.385) - ExCoCo Chess by Graeme Neatham.
EXtends and COmbines the COurier variants
🧡 1 (0.385) - Giant Chess by Köksal Karakus.
16x16 board with the same pieces as Turkish Chess, but also the "Dev" piece which takes up four squares
🧡 1 (0.385) - Great Whale Shogi by R. Schmittberger.
Great Whale Shogi by R. Wayne Schmittberger
🧡 1 (0.385) - Jetan-Sarang by James Spratt.
A large variation of Jetan.
🧡 1 (0.385) - Kuuzen Dai Shogi by Eric Silverman💖.
Dai Shogi with different promotions, invented by Eric Silverman.
🧡 1 (0.385) - Medusa Shogi by Gary Gifford.
🧡 1 (0.385) - Nimrod Chess by Charles Gilman.
All the same moves as FIDE Chess, but not NECESSARILY on the same pieces
🧡 1 (0.385) - Pillars of Medusa by Gary Gifford.
A variation of Turkish Great Chess plus two additional pieces, the Morph and the Medusa.
🧡 1 (0.302) - 3D Great Shatranj by Joe Joyce.
A simple approach to 3D chess
🧡 1 (0.302) - 4-way chess by Taurus games by Stephen Stockman.
Commercial fourhanded chess variant
🧡 1 (0.302) - 4D Hexagonal Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
4D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Hyperchess4
🧡 1 (0.302) - 4D Quasi-Alice Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
8x8x2x2 four dimensional game with 32 pieces
🧡 1 (0.302) - A9 HexaChess (Imperial Grand HexaChess) by Graeme Neatham.
Large variant of Grand Hexachess.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Amazon Grand Chess by Namik Zade.
A combination of Grand Chess and Amazon Chess.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Blue Chip Chess by Neal Turner.
A chip, moved each turn by the players, denotes a square where pieces may not go to
🧡 1 (0.302) - Carrousel Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Game with 32 pieces
🧡 1 (0.302) - Chess 1010 by Kevin Pacey💖.
Game played with 40 pieces
🧡 1 (0.302) - Dice chess (wikipedia rules).
Dice chess using 2 dice, wikipedia rules.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Directed Alice III by Joe Joyce.
a 3-board Alice Chess variant
🧡 1 (0.302) - Full house hexagonal chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Game with 50 pieces
🧡 1 (0.302) - Hexagonal Raumschach by Kevin Pacey💖.
Three dimensional analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess, based on Raumschach
🧡 1 (0.302) - Hexajedrez by Carlos Cetina.
Variation of Dave McCooey's Hexagonal Chess
🧡 1 (0.302) - Los Alamos variant.
Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Millennium 3D Chess (tm) by William D’Agostino.
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🧡 1 (0.302) - Mini Thunder Chess by Fergus Duniho.
A small-scale hybrid of Metamorph Chess, Fusion Chess, and Assimilation Chess.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Pocket Polypiece Chess 43 by Antoine Fourrière.
Game with off-board pocket where all pieces of a type change when one piece of a type is moved normally
🧡 1 (0.302) - Replacement Chess.
Captured pieces must be put on an empty square on the board.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Rifle Chess by W. B. Seabrook.
Pieces are taken by shooting: capturing without moving
🧡 1 (0.302) - Royal Court by Sidney LeVasseur.
On 8 by 10 board with crowned knights: can move like king or knight.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Samarcanda by Nuno Cruz.
Variant of Mideast Chess with Crooked Bishops
🧡 1 (0.302) - Sissa by Carlos Cetina.
Variant on 9 by 9 board with Sissa's.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Symmetric Sissa by Carlos Cetina.
Variant on 9 by 9 board with symmetric setup and two Sissa's (generalized Knight-like sliders)
🧡 1 (0.302) - Templar Chess by Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
Features the unorthodox Templar on a board with eight extra squares.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Tepuy by Roberto Lavieri.
A territorial game, with unique setup, movement and capturing.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Throne Chess by Kevin Pacey💖.
Same game as chess, except playing King to K8 wins too, by Thronemate
🧡 1 (0.302) - Tripunch Chess by Ralph Betza.
Knights become Nightriders, Rooks add Gryphon moves, Bishops add Aanca moves, and Queens become unbelievable
🧡 1 (0.302) - Turkish Chess by Köksal Karakus.
8x10 board with different combination pieces, Vao and Pao.
🧡 1 (0.302) - Very Heavy Chess by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
A lot of firepower with all compounds of classical chess pieces
🧡 1 (0.302) - Warlord Games by Joe Joyce.
Structured multi-move abstract strategy games of battle
🧡 1 (0.302) - Xiang Hex by Larry Smith.
🧡 1 (0.233) - All the Way Chess by Doug Chatham.
Pieces must move as far as they can when moved
🧡 1 (0.233) - Aquachess by Bob Greenwade.
One level underwater, one on the surface, and one in the sky, with many strange pieces.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Arktur by Peter Riessen.
Two kings and randomized setup
🧡 1 (0.233) - Avatar Chess by Gerd Degens.
Game with avatars that can assume any piece of chess, depending on the fields of the board.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Bastille Chess by PaulDeWitte.
Win by clearing your opponent's fortress
🧡 1 (0.233) - Blackjack chess by Henk Breugem.
Win also if the value of pieces you have is exactly 21 points
🧡 1 (0.233) - Borderline by Gerd Degens.
Without pawns, with only one king, capturing opponent's pieces is omitted
🧡 1 (0.233) - Bottleneck Chess by Köksal Karakus.
Most pieces start the game locked up in two bottleneck parts of the board.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Cannons and Crabs by David Short.
A variant on a 7x6 board with Crabs (improved Pawns), and Cannons (leapers).
🧡 1 (0.233) - Capped Pawns (Bemützte Bauern) by Jörg Knappen.
Pawns have a double step once in their career
🧡 1 (0.233) - Captain's Chess by Patrik Hedman.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Capture the Scepter by Charles Daniel.
Checkmate the king or capture the scepter located on opposing king's home square. Features extra-mobile sliding pawns.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Cardinal Chess by Vitya Makov.
Just like orthodox Western "Mad Queen" Chess only substituting knight-bishop compound for Mad Queen.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Cavalry Chess by Frank Maus.
A once popular variant from the 1920's where every piece has additional jumping moves
🧡 1 (0.233) - Centaur Chess by Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
Pieces move backwards as Knight.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Conquer the opponent's army by Gerd Degens.
The goal of the game is to conquer the opponent's army and to add it to your own army.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Corner-square chess by Henk Breugem.
Taking is only allowed when your king is on a cornersquare
🧡 1 (0.233) - Courier Chess VIII by David Paulowich.
A re-imagining of Courier Chess, on a smaller board.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Diagonal chess (well balanced) by Zbigniew Kokosiński.
Diagonal chess with 7 fortified pawns
🧡 1 (0.233) - Diamond Chess by Bruce Mills.
Chess variant on diamond shaped board with 40 squares.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Disguised King by Henk Breugem.
Unknown pawn becomes royal piece
🧡 1 (0.233) - Displacement Chess 2.
The most logical step for the evolution of standard Chess: flexible castling and interchange of king and queen for one side.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Douglas Modern chess by Ian Douglas.
A chess variant with a more interesting start position, leading to more action.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Eric's Great chess by Eric Greenwood.
Modern variant on historic large chess variant
🧡 1 (0.233) - Fifty-fifty chess by Henk Breugem.
Mating is allowed after having taken eight pieces
🧡 1 (0.233) - Fighting Kings by Gary Gifford.
The King has switched places with the King Pawn - The King is now a fighting piece. And the pawn must be protected.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Fish Chess by DavidMoeser.
Pawns can move backwards without capturing
🧡 1 (0.233) - Five-stars chess by Henk Breugem.
One can also win by having five pieces in a row
🧡 1 (0.233) - Grand Crossing by Henk Breugem.
Win by moving your king to the opponents side of the board
🧡 1 (0.233) - Hans38 Chess by Eric Greenwood.
Eric Greenwood's chess on a board with 38 squares.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Hans 38Special Chess by Eric Greenwood.
On a board with 38 squares.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Herd by Sergey Sirotkin.
Experimental variant with jumping pieces on 7 by 7 board.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Modern Chess960 by Piotr Smagacz💖.
chess960 with piece placement by players and orthodox castling
🧡 1 (0.233) - New Chancellor Chess Variants by David Paulowich.
On 8 by 10 board with two `chancellors'
🧡 1 (0.233) - Paulowich's Chancellor Chess by David Paulowich.
A proposal to play chancellor chess with chancellors and queens in the corner on 8 by 8 board
🧡 1 (0.233) - Queens Left Chess.
Black king and queen reverse position in setup
🧡 1 (0.233) - Royal Pawn Chess by Jeremy Good.
The e2 and e7 pawns are royal, but Kings are not.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Sanctuary Chess by PaulDeWitte.
Archbishop and Swiss Guard replace Queen and King; no checkmate.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Steward Chess by Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
Kings are able to "crown" pieces, giving them extra moves.
🧡 1 (0.233) - Two Kings Chess.
The queen is replaced by a second king
🧡 1 (0.136) - 3 Level 4 Player Variants by Charles Gilman.
Putting 4 players on a 3d board usually used for 2
🧡 1 (0.136) - 3d Magna Carta Chess by Charles Gilman.
Adding Barons and Dukes to Magna Carta Chess to commemorate 8th centenary of Magna Carta
🧡 1 (0.136) - 4-Player Pothole Chess by DaveHogarty and Seth Blanchard.
Bulldozers and cars and other vehicles are pieces in 4-player chess variant.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Ajax Xiangqi by Jose Carrillo.
The Ajax 'effect' meets Chinese Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Alibishogi by Charles Gilman.
Variant with Shogi-style promotion and drops themed on Alibaba and 40 Thieves
🧡 1 (0.136) - Antarctic Chess or Predators and Penguins by Graeme Neatham.
Penguins seek safety at the ice-pack's centre. Can the Predators stop them?
🧡 1 (0.136) - Armies of Faith 1: The Dawn of Civilisation by Charles Gilman.
The first in of a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history
🧡 1 (0.136) - Armies of Faith 2: Later Antiquity by Charles Gilman.
The second in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history
🧡 1 (0.136) - Armies of Faith 4: Schism by Charles Gilman.
The fourth in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history
🧡 1 (0.136) - Armies of Faith 5: Spiritual and Temporal by Charles Gilman.
The fifth in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history
🧡 1 (0.136) - Arnhem Chess by Hans Bodlaender.
Game on board of 38 squares.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Bach Dang Chess by Vu Vo.
On board with 88 squares, with crafts and other special pieces and rules
🧡 1 (0.136) - Bachelor Chess by Doug Chatham.
Win by mating your opponent, or marrying off your King
🧡 1 (0.136) - Bachelor Kamil by Charles Gilman.
Combines ideas from Bachelor Chess and Wildebeest Chess.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Bario Shogi by (zzo38) A. Black.
A shogi game with pieces that can be change typed
🧡 1 (0.136) - Beautiful Sun Chess (Meiriqi) by Glenn Overby II.
A 10x10 blend of FIDE, Shogi, and Xiangqi influences.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Bishogi by Charles Gilman.
An attempt to take the FIDE army further towards Shogi than Chessgi does.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Caliph Qi by Charles Gilman.
Extension of Isis with compound colourbound pieces and overlapping royal-accessible areas
🧡 1 (0.136) - Camblam by Michael Asher.
On a 12x12 board with archers, catapults and other enhanced pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Cannonless Xiang Qi variants by Charles Gilman.
A look at stronger variations of pre-cannon Xiangqi.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Cannon Shogi and Cannon Chess by Peter Michaelsen.
Played on a 9x9 Shogi board, feature various types of 'Cannon' pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Canonical Chess Variants by Tony Paletta.
A family of chess variants that blends Xiang Qi and Western Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Capture the Flag Chess by Thomas Cameron.
A translation of the classic children's game to a 42-square board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - CGNP chess by Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
A game with Knightly Pawns.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chameleon Chess Redux by Adam Goss.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Changi with diagonal pieces by Daniil Frolov.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chaughts by Mark Hedden.
A mixture of chess and international draughts.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Checkers with Bosses by Daniil Frolov.
Checkers variant with different types of pieces. Game's main feature are Bosses.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chesica by Frederick Copley.
Game from the 19th Century combining elements of Checkers and Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chess and a Half by Nicolino Will.
Game with extra leapers
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chessball by U. Kamzolov.
Play football on a chessboard.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chesscala by Francois Tremblay.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chess in a Moebius Strip by Alberto Monteiro.
8 by 14 board with sides glued together.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chess in the Round.
1970's commercial variant that allows turning corners with the Rook and Queen.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chess of Amazons by paculino.
Chess played on a 10x10 board with all FIDE pieces, but extra pawns, and the Amazon piece from the Game of Amazons.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chessopoly by Ralph Betza.
Board with a hole in the middle where pawns move clockwise
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chess vs checkers by Daniil Frolov.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Chivalry by Michael Asher.
With 30 pieces on a 10 by 10 board
🧡 1 (0.136) - Clash of Command by PeterStobbe.
Chesslike game with pieces that change and leave behind other pieces on special board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Classic sum by Daniil Frolov.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Classic sum - light version by Daniil Frolov.
🧡 1 (0.136) - College Mess by Kevin Pacey.
Smess variant played using a Smess board & set
🧡 1 (0.136) - Crossover-piece Dual Direction Variants by Charles Gilman.
Variants adding different moves in the dual direction to already dual pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Crouching Stepper, Hidden Rider by Charles Gilman.
Xiang Qi pieces' moves lengthen and shorten with location.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Dai-Ryu Shogi by Jared McComb.
Large Shogi variant with new pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Danadazo by Jared McComb.
Game played on the 47 edges of a grid with rounded corners, borrowing elements from Tafl
🧡 1 (0.136) - Dartboard Chess by Charles Gilman.
circular all-three-compounds variant, with different orthogonal ranges on different files
🧡 1 (0.136) - Decimal Quadruple Besiege by Charles Gilman.
Army based on Échecs De L'Escalier arranged on enlarged Quadruple Besiege board
🧡 1 (0.136) - Delegating Chess by João Neto.
84 square variant in which pieces delegate moving powers
🧡 1 (0.136) - Desert Pub Chess by Gary Gifford.
A game where Desert Wazirs & Desert Ferz capture by jumping.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Diamond Ring Chess by Charles Gilman.
Courier-style pieces to diamond-shaped camps on a toroidal wraparound board
🧡 1 (0.136) - Dienbienphu Chess by Vu Vo.
Unequal armies chess variant: FIDE chess against Quang Trung Chess.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Diplomat Chess by Carlos Martin-Fuertes.
Round-board variant with a Diplomat to suborn opponents.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Djambi by Jean Anesto.
Four player variant with different taking rules and special central square
🧡 1 (0.136) - Double chess by Julian Hayward.
Two sets of pieces on 16 by 12 board
🧡 1 (0.136) - Double Cross Besiege by Charles Gilman.
A spinoff from Besiege Chess using FIDE-size armies
🧡 1 (0.136) - Double King Chess by DavidMoeser.
With two kings on a 10 by 8 board
🧡 1 (0.136) - Double Skak by Soren Kirk.
Four player chess variant on 8 by 8 board
🧡 1 (0.136) - Dual Direction Variants by Charles Gilman.
Adding extra moves to pieces in historic forms of Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Echexs by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Hexagonal variant for three or six players.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Ecutunnel and Ecumillstone by Charles Gilman.
3d versions of twin-board Ecumenical Chess, with a new front-rank piece
🧡 1 (0.136) - Electrum Chess by Charles Gilman.
All the Goldchess and Silverchess back-rank pieces in a single variant
🧡 1 (0.136) - Elephant Hunt by Freederick .
Ituri Forest Pygmi traditional game with chess-like elements.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Empty Cube Chess by Charles Gilman.
A variant using the faces of an 8x8x8 board with no triaxial moves
🧡 1 (0.136) - Enep by Aurelian Florea.
An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Europan Chess by Mark Hedden.
A 14x14 board with extra pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Expanded Chinese Chess by Travis Z.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Falcon Hexagonal Chess by Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
The Falcon into the Hexagonal world.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Fanorona Chess by Peter Aronson.
Variant played on a Fanorona board with capture by approach and by withdrawal
🧡 1 (0.136) - Fellowship of the Ring by Robert Price.
White may win by carrying a 'ring' to the other side of the board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Fiancé Chess by Charles Gilman.
A 3-player variant with Kings and Queens starting far apart, inspired by Bachelor Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Fighting Fizzies by Peter Aronson.
An Experimental Army for Chess with Different Armies.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Five-Minute Poppy Shogi by Oyama Yasuharu.
Small shogi variant on a 4 by 5 board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Flight and Ferry by Charles Gilman.
The gold dragon of Wessex fights the red one of Wales across the Bristol Channel
🧡 1 (0.136) - Foreign Policy Chess by Francois Tremblay.
Chess variant on 8 by 8 board with armies of unequal strength
🧡 1 (0.136) - Four Armies by Patrick Riley.
Each player controls two armies.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Four Player Shogi by MichaelShipley.
Variant of Shogi for four players.
🧡 1 (0.136) - French revolution chess by Hans Bodlaender.
Advanced pawns threaten the noble pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Fugue by Michael Nelson.
Based on Ultima and Rococo this game has pieces that capture in unusual ways.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Fun-in-a-Box Chess by David Howe.
Featuring Thing One and Thing Two from The Cat in the Hat.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Futashikana Shogi by A. M. DeWitt.
Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Gala Xiang-Qi by Daniil Frolov.
Crossover game
🧡 1 (0.136) - Game of the Three Kingdoms.
Another variant on Chinese Chess for three players.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Game of Three Friends by Jìndé Zhèng.
A variant on Chinese Chess for three players.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Gi-Qi-Game by Daniil Frolov.
Another one crossover of European, Chinese and Japanese chess.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Giant-King Chess by Robert Shimmin.
Kings take up four squares each, all of which must be attacked to check
🧡 1 (0.136) - Glacial Shift by Jared McComb.
4-player game played with Icehouse pieces with Shogi-style captures and where the same piece moves differently for each player
🧡 1 (0.136) - Global Chess.
A chess game played on a board composed of two rotating disks.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Gnu Qi by Charles Gilman.
A cross between Anglis Qi and Wildebeest Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Goldchess and Silverchess by Charles Gilman.
Standard board and setup, but new moves for pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Gothic Isles Chess by Peter Aronson.
Fictional historic variant, with Dragons, Wizards and Champions
🧡 1 (0.136) - Grand CwDA: the Shatranjians by Joe Joyce.
Grand CwDA
🧡 1 (0.136) - Grand Tamerlane by John Davis.
John Davis invented this variation of Mideast Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Gross Raumschach by Charles Gilman.
Larger, 4-player version of Raumschach.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Gryphon Aanca Chess by Gary Gifford.
Large Variant with Gryphons, Aancas, and a few other not-so-common pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Half Nearlydouble Chess and offshoots by Charles Gilman.
Chess enlarged and then shrunk again - or vice versa
🧡 1 (0.136) - Heathen Europe Chess by Charles Gilman.
2 player cubic-cell Europe-specific offshoot of AOF series
🧡 1 (0.136) - Herculean Chess by Charles Daniel.
12 x 12 version of chess featuring 4 Rooks, 4 Bishops, 4 Leapers and 22 pawns.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Herichess by Charles Gilman.
A variant on a board in the shape of the English Heritage logo
🧡 1 (0.136) - Hexabeast by Ivan Derzhanski.
Hexagonal chess variant with six animal pieces, by Ivan A. Derzhanski.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Hexagonal Round Chess by Arnaldo D'Almeida.
Combined Byzantine Chess with Rex Chess.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Hex Shogi 41 by Fergus Duniho.
Hexagonal shogivariant on board with 41 squares.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Hex Shogi 81 by Fergus Duniho.
A hexagonal Shogi variant on an 81-space board
🧡 1 (0.136) - Hitchhiker Chess by Dan Troyka.
Get your Hitchhiker to the Restaurant at the other End of the Board; inspired by Douglas Adams' books
🧡 1 (0.136) - Honeycomb Chess by Charles Gilman.
This variant uses a board of hex-prism cells and two sets of FIDE pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Hourglass Hex Chess by Charles Gilman.
2 overlapping triangles form a hex board of just over FIDE size.
🧡 1 (0.136) - iChess by Pangus Ho.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Imperial Dragon Chess by Paul Fredrix.
A variant of Xiangqi designed to appeal to western players.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Infinite Recursion Chess by David Howe.
Another mega-chess type game.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Insect Chess by Tim Bostick.
On a 12x12 board. All pieces are insect and arachnid representations, with some unique pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Interweave by Peter Aronson.
Game with elements of Checkers and Ultima where all pieces are colorbound and only capture pieces on the other color
🧡 1 (0.136) - IO Chess by Mark Hedden.
Variant on 16 by 16 board with many pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Joko Urtaroak by Glenn Overby II.
Modern large version of Game of Four Seasons; four player chess variant
🧡 1 (0.136) - Joust Chess by Jeff Cornell.
Rotating pieces, long range movement, adjacent capture, both in one turn using different directions.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Judkin's Shogi by ? Judkin.
Small shogi variant on 6 by 6 board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - King Arthur's Chess 72 by David Cannon.
Chess on a round board,. The odd number of files allows the Bishops to access every cell on the board - not colour-bound.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Knavish Chess by Charles Gilman.
Variant using square-board analogues to 6-way hex-board Dabbabas
🧡 1 (0.136) - Kobayashi Maru Variant of Star Trek 3-D Chess by Larry Smith.
A variant set of rules for playing chess using the 3 dimensionsal set featured on the TV series Star Trek
🧡 1 (0.136) - Korean Carrera by Daniil Frolov.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Koval's Hexagonal Chess by Max Koval.
A new way to play chess on hexagonal cells
🧡 1 (0.136) - Leaping/Missing Bat Chess by John Savard.
Large variant on a 16x12 board with many fairy pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Life, the Universe and Everything by João Neto.
42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction
🧡 1 (0.136) - Litrof by Glenn Overby II.
Variant on 42 squares played with stacks of Icehouse pyramids, where different color pyramids give stacks different powers
🧡 1 (0.136) - Little Dragon Chess by Peter Aronson.
Modern small variant of Xiangqi on board of 41 squares.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Los Alamos Vierschach by Jörg Knappen.
Four player variant of small variant Los Alamos Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Mad Elephant Chess by Peter Aronson.
Pawns can be turned into Elephants; Elephants can promote to Mad Elephants, and Mad Elephants can trample lines of pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - magic mashers by Andy Maxson.
another experimental chess with different armies variant
🧡 1 (0.136) - Magna Carta Chess by Charles Gilman.
Black has the FIDE array, White has a Marshal and an Archbishop instead of a Queen and King
🧡 1 (0.136) - MANEVAR a.k.a. Maneuver by Bishop Drax.
Game with infantry, cavalry, and archers and multiple moves per turn.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Marine Game.
Small wargame, simulating a sea battle.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Marinelli's three-handed chess, or Triple Chess by Philip Marinelli.
Historic chess variant for three players
🧡 1 (0.136) - Mega-Chess by David Howe.
A chess game where each piece is a chess game!
🧡 1 (0.136) - Microorganism Chess by Mark Hedden.
A 16x16 board with pieces that behave like micro-organisms.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Military Chess by E. Joseph Cossman.
19th century commercial chess variant
🧡 1 (0.136) - Mitregi by Charles Gilman.
Shogi variant with more powerful diagonal pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Mitsugumi Shogi by A. M. DeWitt.
Smaller variant of Suzumu Shogi on a 13x13 board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Napoleonic Chess by Tom Hartley.
Large chess variant with the `spirit of the Armies of the Napoleonic period'.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Nearlydouble Chess by Charles Gilman.
A 2d variant with the whole of two identical sets minus the second King
🧡 1 (0.136) - Nearlydouble Hex Chess by Charles Gilman.
Applying the Nearlydouble principle to Wellisch and McCooey Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Nearlydouble Wildebeest by Charles Gilman.
A variant with the whole of two identical Wildebeest sets minus the second King
🧡 1 (0.136) - Neo Chess by J. Naylor.
Four player chess on 8 by 10 board from 1925
🧡 1 (0.136) - Nine elders by Daphne Snowmoon.
Sittuyin + Shogi
🧡 1 (0.136) - Not-so colorbound cylindrical chess by Daniil Frolov.
Game only with pieces, that would be colorbound on normal board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Not a Dodgson System Chess by Hans Bodlaender.
Four player variant, using Alice chess movement. Win by taking most of the eliminated players pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Novo Chess by L. Weijden.
War game chess variant from the Netherlands, 1937.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Oblique by Tony Quintanilla.
Variant with board with 40 squares turned 45 degrees.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Once More, with Deans by Charles Gilman.
Subvariants of River-with-university-and-cathedral series with extra piece type
🧡 1 (0.136) - One Ring by Robert Price.
White wants to get the Ring to the far side and destroy it
🧡 1 (0.136) - One Ring Chess by Larry Smith.
One dimensional chess played on a ring-shaped board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Operational Chess 2 by Andy Thomas.
Large, wargame inspired variant with ranged pieces.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Pachessi by Peter Aronson.
Race and chess game on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Padwar qi by Daniil Frolov.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Palace Shogi by Silvia Hollinshead.
A complicated hybrid of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Panal: a hexagonal chess by Glenn Overby II.
A double-royal piece variant on a 61-hex board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - PASGL 312 Chess by Ralph Betza.
Critters steal lunch in the forest, while trying to get close to the campfire and avoid the train
🧡 1 (0.136) - Pass variants by Charles Gilman.
4-player Xiang, Anglis, &c. Qi on a 10x10 board with intersecting Rivers
🧡 1 (0.136) - Pawn Shogi by Eric Greenwood.
Experimental shogi variant with different types of pawns.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Phi Chess with Different Armies by Joshua Morris.
Choose your own army on a 13x8 board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Pink Panther Chess by Charles Gilman.
Possess the Pink Panther diamond give your piece extra moves
🧡 1 (0.136) - Pirates-Henge-Ho by R Chafe.
Small variant with pirates theme.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Platform Chess by Robert Price.
Pieces move normally or ride on 2x2 platforms that move themselves
🧡 1 (0.136) - Pompeii Chess by Dan Troyka.
Variant on board with 25 squares
🧡 1 (0.136) - Proto Prelates by Charles Gilman.
An Armies of Faith offshoot adding Bishop compounds named after pre-Christian religious titles
🧡 1 (0.136) - QB Goes East 98 squares by Charles Gilman.
Quadruple Besiege versions of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots using single sets on 2 7x7 boards
🧡 1 (0.136) - QB Goes East 162 squares by Charles Gilman.
Quadruple Besiege versions of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots using double sets on 2 9x9 boards
🧡 1 (0.136) - Quadd Shogi by (zzo38) A. Black.
Shogi with 4 squares for each one space in normal Shogi.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Quadruple Besiege Chess by Charles Gilman.
A variant on a "finite but unbounded" board comprising two FIDE boards notionally joined on every edge.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Quang Trung Chess (4th edition) by Vu Vo.
Variant with standard equipment, with different moving pieces, and elements of Xiangqi and FIDE-chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Reservists' doublechess by Andrew L Smith.
Each side has 16 non-pawn pieces, split among 10 types
🧡 1 (0.136) - REX Hexagonal Chess by Arnaldo D'Almeida.
Six Direction Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Rotorblades Fusion Chess by David Cannon.
Played on a circular tiling on triangular cells. A further development of my previous game, Rotorblades Chess.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Round Table Chess 84 by Richard VanDeventer.
Chess on a special round board with 84 squares
🧡 1 (0.136) - Rutherford’s 1-dimensional Shogi by Jonathan Rutherford.
Modern one-dimensional chess variant, based upon Shogi
🧡 1 (0.136) - Ryu Shogi by Jared McComb.
Large modern shogi variant
🧡 1 (0.136) - Sankaku Shogi by Larry Smith.
Small Shogi variant played on a board of 44 triangles with no drops and a teleporting Emperor
🧡 1 (0.136) - Self's three-handed chess by Henry Self.
19th century chess variant for three players.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Sesqui-dimensional Chess by Jeff Cornell.
1d circular variant where pieces move clockwise, counterclockwise, and *across the center* of the circle.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Shogi with Cannons by John Smith.
Clarified Pawn drop rules.
🧡 1 (0.136) - short splicers by Andy Maxson.
An experimental chess with different armies army
🧡 1 (0.136) - Sigma 4 Shogi by Daniel Roth.
Updated rules and added new pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Sino-European Chess by Andy Thomas.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Sixteen Pawns by M. de Kemur.
Trade a queen for 8 extra pawn
🧡 1 (0.136) - Snark Hunt by Peter Aronson.
Variant with unequal armies on board with 41 squares, inspired by a poem of Lewis Carroll's
🧡 1 (0.136) - Soccer Chess by João Neto.
Chess Variant inspired by soccer
🧡 1 (0.136) - Spherical chess by Don Miller and Leo Nadvorney.
Sides of the board are considered to be connected to form a sphere
🧡 1 (0.136) - Spire orth triangular xiang-qi by Daniil Frolov.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Stelliform 6 player Chess by Charles Gilman.
Stellisch from Wellisch, Stellicorn from Revergent, and Stellgi and Hexgi
🧡 1 (0.136) - Sudoku War by Joost Brugh.
A fight that takes place in a Sudoku
🧡 1 (0.136) - Sunflower HexChess by Graeme Neatham.
Hexagonal Chess in-the-round
🧡 1 (0.136) - Super Tamerlane by Nicolino Will.
A more modern version of the original Tamerlane Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Suzumu Shogi by A. M. DeWitt.
16x16 variant based on Tenjiku Shogi.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Tapestry Chess by David Howe.
Chess on a four-color 6x6 board, with a 5 square control board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Three Player Hex Shogi 91 by Fergus Duniho.
a hexagonal Shogi variant for three players.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Tishai by James Ernest.
Played on a 7x7 board with 2 sideboards.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Torus Chess by Köksal Karakus.
Large chess variant on torus shaped board.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Toto40 by Peter Aronson.
Staircase board with fighting line in the middle, inspired by Totolospi game of Hopi Indians.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Trihex by Marek14 .
Three-player hexagonal variant with extra pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Trios Hex Chess by Charles Gilman.
Filling Glinsky-size camps with extra pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Triumvirate Chess by PaulDeWitte.
Uses three Knights. The last remaining opposing Knight must be checkmated as the King.
🧡 1 (0.136) - True King by Roxy Wu.
A Grand Chess variant.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Tryslmaistan Chess.
Fictional chess variant on board made of 24 triangles.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Turn Qi by Charles Gilman.
Cannonless Xiang Qi on a Byzantine-style board, complete with Byzantine geography!
🧡 1 (0.136) - Ulchesgi by (zzo38) A. Black.
Like Ultima and Chess and Shogi
🧡 1 (0.136) - Unirexal Chess by Vernon Parton.
Only white has a king
🧡 1 (0.136) - veSQuj - Chess with 21st century armies by Glenn Overby II.
A highly tactical variant with a 21st-century-war theme.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Vierschach by G. Lutze.
19th Century 4-player game where allies start off at right angles to each other
🧡 1 (0.136) - Vortex Chess by Robert LeRoy.
Ortho-chess with the inclusion of a new piece: the Portal.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Waider's three-handed chess by Waider.
🧡 1 (0.136) - War of World`s Warriors Chess by Namik Zade.
The War of World`s Warriors Chess
🧡 1 (0.136) - Weak!.
Black has 7 knights, and 16 pawns, White the usual array
🧡 1 (0.136) - Wild Kingdom Chess by Nick Wolff.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Windows Chess by David Cannon.
Windows Chess is played with usual chess equipment on a board inspired by an arch-window.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Xiangqi 42 by Robert Price.
A minature version of Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) on 42 squares.
🧡 1 (0.136) - Yalta.
A three player chess variant
🧡 1 (0.136) - Yonin Bishogi by Charles Gilman.
Variant based on Yonin Shogi but with FIDE pieces
🧡 1 (0.136) - Yonin Shogi by Ota Mitsuyasu.
4-handed Shogi variant
🧡 1 (0.136) - ZigZag Chess by Robert Bell.
Variant on `zigzagshaped' board
🧡 1 (0.136) - ZigZag X Chess by Robert Bell.
Variant on board with new shape

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Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Oct 24 02:26 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:20 PM:

Thanks Fergus. I found it and saw how it affects.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Oct 24 02:22 PM EDT:

Ranks are now shown. Since the whole list was a definition list, I changed each entry into a separate definition list and made each one a list item in an ordered list. Since the bold, sans-serif formatting is only for the DT tag, the rank number does not get the same formatting.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Oct 24 02:20 PM EDT in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 01:32 PM:

How to change reviewbonus?

It's on or off. By default, it is off. Assign it a non-empty value, such as 1 or true, to turn it on.

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Oct 24 01:32 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from 12:56 PM:

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Oct 24 12:56 PM EDT:

I corrected a bug in the code for reviewbonus. In searching for a review, I had left out the ItemID, without which it would find any 5 star review the person had written for any page, which inflated the scores. With the ItemID now part of the search, it will find reviews only for the game in question. In comparing the results with and without reviewbonus set, it is giving many games slightly higher scores, and some are rising in rank. The first game to rise in rank from it being set is Pocket Mutation Chess.

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