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Grande Acedrex. A large variant from 13th century Europe. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Yitong. Widely-played regional variant on Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Back in Taiwan, I ever played Manchurian Chess(º‘¬wΒ΄Γ) with my classmate. Manchurian Chess was invented by Manchu people during 17th century. This powerful and isolated pieces which could move like Rook, Cannon, and Horse is called Banner(ΒΊX). Manchu people likened Banner to their army who destroyed Ming Dynasty.
Congo. Animals fight on 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]http://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/2914?do=show;id=11 I am so late to discover this good game. But I think Crocodile standing riverside is so easy to defence. It isn't good for attack. I wish Elephants also do not drown. I also use Alfaerie font to change Cango's graphics. http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/congo.rar
Judkin's Shogi. Small shogi variant on 6 by 6 board. (6x6, Cells: 36) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/Judkins.rar I implemented Judkin's Shogi.
Philosophers Chess. Chess variant on two small boards with usual and `philosophical' pieces. (6x6, Cells: 40) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Philosophers Chess is small but owns intricate strategy as well as peculiar style. But I feel Philosophers Chess is very long to play in the end game. Philosophers Chess will be better if added another way of winning for reducing the enemy force to exactly one King.
Border Wars. Game played on the 42 edges of a grid, with elements of Shogi and XiangQi. (Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I think Border Wars Shogi is more playable than the other of Border Wars.
Heroes Hexagonal Chess. Hexagonal variant with special Hero piece which enhances other pieces. (Cells: 84) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Nice! Heroes Hexagonal Chess is most interesting and fantastic in all Hexagonal chess I have ever come across. Mobilization(Ta'biyat) and Hero are good conceptions.
Maybe limite the move of king in the palace, the chess will be more chopping.
Quang Trung Chess (4th edition). Variant with standard equipment, with different moving pieces, and elements of Xiangqi and FIDE-chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Now Quang Trung Chess is 10th edition. http://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/38631?do=show;id=760
Dual Chess. A more Chess-like variant featuring the Marshall and the Cardinal. (16x8, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The variant is a thinkable way to accept and highlight Marshall and Cardinal. I agree Antoine FourriΓ―ΒΏΒ½re's remark. Putting too similar pieces in a broad makes the game boring.
4 Armies. Each player controls two armies. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Pawns got finally its need in four players chess and have more efficiency to cooperative with friend army. Adding other win ways also hastened the end game.
Rotary. On a 9 by 9 board with rotating pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]As Scythe to Rotary, are Lance to Shogi. The merit that Scythe could rotate after the move without limit compensates for the actual loss of one direction.
Influence Chess. Pieces on the top or bottom layer influence which chess pieces may move on the middle layer. (3x(4x7), Cells: 84) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I like this variant. I never dreamed of the desgin like it.
Regulator Chess. Game on a 35 square board with a 7 square track on which a piece moves that determines how Knights and Bishops can move. (6x7, Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This variant is as creative as Influence Chess invented by the same man. But I think the draw is easy to happen.
Wa Shogi. A variant of Japanese Chess on an 11 by 11 board. (Link.).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]My friends and I ever played one Modern rules of Wa Shogi:with drops and changed Toen (Climbing Monkey): moves one square orthogonally forwards or diagonally forward, or one or two squares backwards. Promotes to Moroku (Violent Stag). Toen is slightly beefed up by moving one or two squares orthogonally forwards.
Turkish Great Chess II. Gollon's large historical variant. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I think this version is better than other Turkish Great Chess. Qalmaqini ,armed women, moves like a Shogi Pawn. Can Qalmaqini be promoted when reaching in the last rank?
Shifting Sands Chess. Special squares -- which can be dropped and moved -- change the types of pieces that land on them. (6x7, Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I very like the idea of this game. It maybe added with some other color squares for Chancellor or Marshall.
It is difficult to distinguish whose color squares in this zrf. I advice that color squares can't be allow to move.
Chameleon Chess. On each turn the rank of the moved piece changes.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Not bad. Thanks for Ed Friedlander. He had improved the rules in his Applets. The variant is more playable now.
Earthquake Chess. An earthquake caused a kind of Z-form in the board. (8x8, Cells: 8) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Earthqua.htm I had played this varinat and like it. Hope someone would Implement it on ZOG.
Take and Return Chess. You put pieces taken from the opponent back on the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The game is an interesting variant for chess problem. How special is this capture rule. But I think it takes a long time to play. Let pieces which are captured by King not be replaced again!
http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Canadian.htm
Tile Chess. Commercial chess variant, published by Steve Jackson Games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]http://www.pathguy.com/chess/TileChss.htm http://www.hivemania.com/play/ The machine is like Hive. Maybe Hive is inspired by Tile Chess.
Kaissa. Decimal variant developed from descriptions in John Norman's Gor books.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Kaissa is one of good chess variants worth being implemented with ZOG.
Plunderchess. Commercial variants where capturing gains the right to move once as the captured piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]A good chess variant between Absorption Chess and Cannibal Chess.
Patt-schach (Stalemate chess). Players start with an illegal move from a stalemated position. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]http://www.pathguy.com/chess/PattScha.htm Patt-schach is a good exemple improving well for Upside-Down Chess.
Sudden Death Chess. A piece must be sacrificed after each non-capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Good idea! This idea could be used in those huge Chesses which have large number of pieces, such as Dai-dai Shogi.
Bifocal Chess. A game without capture : win by checkmate with a neutral piece! (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]So crazyly creative a varint. It will be better if change Falcon to e6 and e4.
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