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2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!!
4 Armies. Four traditional armies with cardinals face off on the corners.
- 4 x 4 x 8 Tridimensional Chess. Clever 3-D variant, closer to Raumschach, but according to Gilman, solves some of Raumschach's design flaws.
- 45 or 46 Cell Contest - 2007 Design Contest. Quick contest for 45 or 46 cells. Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2007.
- 65 Square Chess. FIDE chess but pretend there's another square smack dab in the middle.
- Accelerated Chess. White makes one move at first and then each player makes either a capturing move or two non-capturing moves.
- Active King Chess. Each turn, one must move one's king in addition to moving other pieces.
- Actualized Potential Chess. Pieces exist where they are but also all along their routes or points of attack.
- AIGO Chess. Adds cannons to fianchetto positions of FIDE Chess.
- Alekhine Chess. A 14 x 8 game expands the sides of Capablanca-esque board, adds two pairs of marshalls and cardinals and an amazon in the middle.
- Andernach. The capturing piece changes colors.
- Arch Courier. Eric Greenwood's modernization of Courier and Courier Spiel Chess.
- Archabbott Chess. Introduces the Archabbott piece which moves like Bishop + Wazir + Dabbaba.
- Archbishop Chess. Replace one of the marshalls from birds chess with a cardinal and you have Dominique Leste's Archbishop Chess.
- Archchess. Late 17th chess variant from Italy on large board with pieces which include modern queen and squirrel.
- Bank Chess. Regular Chess only Drops come from Pocketings.
- Barbershop Quartet. Toroidal Variant with Dual Direction Bishops.
- Besiege Chess. Each side has two sets of armies, the black ones are in the middle and whites on top and bottom.
- Betza's Flying Circus. 4 Levels but only four pieces of two kinds can move on three of the levels.
- Big Chess. Ordinary chess pieces on an elongated 8 x 14 board with three times as many bishops and two times as many knights.
- The Black Ghost. Betzan attempt to remedy White's first move advantage in FIDE by giving Black a noncapturing but capturable teleporting piece.
- Black Hole Chess. Game with missing center and two extra spaces just behind the kings.
- Blackjack Chess. Reduce the point value of your pieces to exactly 21 points and win the game. Or do it the old-fashioned way.
- Blue Chess or Deep Blue Vs. Kasparov Chess. Tribute to a famous game with three shades of blue and different options for each player to achieve a win.
- Blue Chip Chess. Fun variant where each turn you get to create an off-limits square for your opponent .
- Bomberman Chess. Two "bombs" and a "defuser" spice up this 10 x 8 game.
- Byelorussian Chesskers. Pieces promote to "Damkas" in this Chess Checkers Hybrid.
- Cagliostro's Chess. Savio Cagliostro of Okeechobee Florida invented this variant in latter quarter of 20th c. Adds extra cardinal and amazon to capa.
- Cannons of Chesstonia. Cannons on the sides of the board can "fire" new pieces into the game.
- CDA Variant: Fighting Fizzies. Missing description
- CDA: Meticulous Mashers. ...every piece very nearly matches the corresponding piece from FIDE-chess, both in value and in general characteristics. - RB.
- CDA: Spacious Cannoneers. Spacious pieces combine with Vao and Pao pieces for Betzan Chess with Different Armies Variant.
- Cheskers. Fun and simple crossover between chess and checkers invented by professor Solomon W. Golomb.
- Chess 68. FIDE Chess with setup inspired by Omega Chess, to allow two modest new corner pieces.
- Chess on a Really Big Board. Game that introduced rose and knight-camel-zebra...
- Chess on the Rainbows. Six different colors light up the board. You have to keep a piece on each color throughout...
- Chess with Different Armies: Cylindrical Cinders. Ralph Betza variant, in which the White Pieces have the advantage of treating the board cylindrically.
- Chess with Extra Bishops. FIDE Chess with Extra Pair of Bishops that Start from Same Square.
- Chessence of Jim Winslow. Movement is dictated by relation to friendly pieces.
- Chieftain Chess. Large variant using 4 royal pieces with command control, multi-piece moves and pieces that may shift direction as they move.
- Chigorin Chess. Knights and Chancellor vs. Bishops and Queen.
- Cleopatra Chess. Dan Troyka game, similar to Benedict Chess but with only one color-changing piece. Cleopatra "seduces" any piece she sees.
- Cobra Chess. Link featuring piece that occupies four squares at once, the cobra, moves like a rook but can leap over friendly pieces.
Complementarity - Part I. With Short Range Project in mind, list of a highly specific set of pieces defined by simplest compounds.
- Complete Permutation Chess. Carrera pieces given additional falcon movement ability are added to wide 8 row board.
- Corridor Chess. FIDE but subtracting rook pawns and setting pieces up in house in middle.
- Courier Chess - Modified. Fourth and Fifth Courier Chess variant modifications....
- Courier de los Combinados. Variant with the most Basic Combinations of Knight, Camel, FIDE pieces, with ferzes, wazirs and guards.
- Courier-Spiel. More modern version of Courier Chess, with Queen added.
- The Demon Game. Larry Smith 10 x 10 game with extra Capablanca pieces.
- Diffusion Chess. Creative attempt by Alexander Munoz to combine Chess and Go.
- Dimension X. Unusual transdimensional pieces interact with FIDE Chess.
- DoGod Random. Pawns and pieces dispersed on first and second ranks.
- Double Diamond. Pieces start diagonally across from one another and pawns move diagonally.
- Double EIGHTEEN-STONE chess. David Short combines his Double Chess with Jim Aikin's Eight-Stone Chess.
- Dueling Archbishops. Chess game with only six cells but with a piece that morphs into four different forms.
- The Duke of Rutland's Chess. Missing description
- Each Piece Once Chess. Each turn, move as many as all your pieces, but only once!
- Ecumenical Chess. Ecumenical Chess features three variants with camel-bishop, camel-rook knight-camel compounds.
- Eight-Stone Chess. Players can move neutral stones as well as pieces.
- En Passant Chess. All pieces have the en passant option. Koksal Karakus version.
- En Passant Chess of Ingo Althofer. This is just FIDE Chess, but with board contracted by one row. Try it out.
- Eric's Great Chess. Eric Greenwood shortens by two rows the familiar ancient Great Chess board.
- Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidally interwoven board using same number of squares and pieces as FIDE Chess.
Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidal board using three warp lines with 8 corners tied together. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Falcon Chess 100. Falcon Chess 100 is a variant of Falcon Chess played on a larger board with some different rules for the Pawns.
- Falcon Chess RNFB. Falcon Chess with the formation Rook, Knight, Falcon, Bishop.
- Falcon Chess Variants - Several. Some Different Setups with Falcon pieces, including with Capablanca pieces and Airplanes.
- Falcon Chess: Passed Pawns, Scorpion and Dragon. Various passed pawns variants, and variants introducing scorpion and dragon.
- FIDE Chess Kamil. FIDE Chess but with extra pawns, extra bishops and a store of superpowerful pieces waiting to replace the regular ones.
- FIDE Chess with Extra Pieces. FIDE Chess but with substitute pieces.
- FIDE Frolic. FIDE chess, but with each piece able to leap.
- Fifo Chess. Multiple Occupier game where rule is that first one there is first one to be captured and to leave. "First In, First Out".
- Football Chess. Pieces interact with a ball and each side tries to get the ball into the opposing goal.
- Ganymede Chess. Mark Hedden's idea for "a large chess variant with many weird pieces...which wouldn't seem too different from orthodox chess".
- Gess. Combines GO with Chess: Invention of Archimedeans Mathematics Society, discussed by Ian Stewart in Scientific American.
- Giant Chess. 16 x 16 variant with lots of powerful pieces and the unique four square occupying Dev piece which is not easy to capture.
- Giant Chess 2. Giant Chess but with the addition of giant Ferzes and 8 Leos.
- Gigachess. With 20 different pieces on a 14 x 14 board, this is the latest in a sequence from Shako to Tamerlane II to Perfect 12.
- Grand Combination Courier. Game with Compounds of Elemental (Atomic) FIDE Pieces Plus Camel, with Mostly Logical Promotions.
- Grand Rider Chess. If you love riders, you'll love Grand Rider Chess, which combines several different colorbound and non-colorbound riders.
- Grand Shogi. Normal Shogi but with extra pieces - "Smooth and fantastic fun, awesome action".
- Grand Warp Point Chess. Using normal chess pieces, plus two warp points, on a 10 x 10 board where pawns can take large initial steps.
- Half Chess of Ralph Betza. Exactly like halfling chess, only the knights are replaced by crabs, making them more compatible with half moving rider pieces.
- Hammer Chess. FIDE but with gnus instead of knights, cardinals instead of bishops and enhanced pawns.
- Hour Glass Chess. Small variant with simple pieces and hour glass shape.
- Hullabaloo. Fusion, fission game with drops, giant conglomerations and two types of activation.
- I'm a Ferz, Get Me Into There!. Inspired by title of Chas. Gilman's game, "I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here!" Object is to get your Ferz to Z5.
- I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here. Game composed of just wazirs and pawns. Wazirs, prone to special disappearing rule. Object : Get rid of your wazirs.
- Ibu Ibu Chess. Introduces the concept of a King's entourage, making King powerful and protected. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Ibu Ibu Chess. Ibu Ibu Chess in which the king's entourage protects it from Ubi-Ubis.
- Jester Chess. Featuring pieces that mimic last piece moved, archers that can either capture OR move. quadrapawns, and murray lions.
- Joe Joyce Hyperchess. Easy to play 3D Chess variant where pieces can act on small board or large board.
- Knight Court Chess. When you take an opponent's piece, he gets to drop it back on the board. Object: Checkmate knight.
- Knight-Pawn Chess. Elegant chess game with knight-pawns that can move as pawns midway up the board if they find themselves behind it.
- Koksal Karakus' En Passant Chess -. All pieces have the en passant option.
- Ladder Chess. Non-competing 40 Square contest entry with scaling board.
- Ladorean Chess. Another 10 x 8 Fergus Duniho variant with marshall and cardinal.
- Leapers Creeepers. Featuring compound long leapers of giraffes, zebras and camels.
- Logical Follow-Up to Duke of Rutland Chess. Derivative of The Duke of Rutland's Chess with other compound pieces.
- Mamra Chess with Wuss. Variant combining very strong Mamra piece with weakening Wuss piece.
- Mesmer Chess. Introduces a new piece, the mesmerist, which can control how opposing pieces move.
- Mideast Chess. Cavalier (as Aanca-Gryphon) with Courtier (as zebras), castles (squirrels) and chevaliers (camels) with FIDE pieces.
- Mimotaur Chess. Missing description
- Minishogi. A Minishogi association has existed, and may still exist, in Osaka.
- Multimove FIDE Chess. Each turn utilizes a number of points that get applied to movement.
- New Age Chess. CDA variant substitutes Pushme-Pullyu as queen, and army with crabrooks, charging knights and waffles.
- New Renniassance Chess. Faster Game with new pieces...
- Nightrider Armies. Nightriders replace rooks and nightrider compounds replace rook compounds in four variants.
- Optimized Chess - 8H x 10W. Missing description
- Passed Pawns Chess. Passed Pawns Chess on 8 x 8 and 10 x 10 Boards.
- Perfect 12. 12 different kinds of pieces on a 12 x 12 board: Is 12 "more perfect" than 10?
- Perfect Chess. Like Tutti Frutti Chess but with a different array.
- The Pit. A pit over which only one of the pieces may jump.
- Pompeii Chess. Small variant with piece drops, orthogonal pawn moves and one each of all the FIDE pieces.
- Pre-Grandchess. Eric Greenwood realized that Christian Freeling's Great Chess could have arisen with this more normal looking position.
- Presiding Chess. Decimal Variant combining a number of exotic pieces.
- Prisoner's Escape. Object is to un-check your opponent; winner of first prize in 44 squares design contest.
- Quadruple Besiege Chess. Toroidal Variant with piece movements defined by stretches.
- Quintessential Chess. Game introducing Quintessential knight and Leeloo (Quintessential Queen).
- Raumschach. "... (German for Space Chess) is one of the first three-dimensional chess variants and the first to survive until present".
- Renniassance Chess. Also referred to as Rennchess, this is a famous, decades-old Tamerlane inspired variant.
- Romanchenko's Chess. FIDE Chess trainer Romanchenko shifted the FIDE board in the middle to help his students think for themselves.
- Rose Chess. Grand Chess with Roses substituted for knights, Rose-Bishop for Cardinal, Rose-Rook for Marshall.
- Roswell Chess. Preset for alien game with abstract pieces that operate in unusual ways.
- Rotation Chess. Every ten moves, switch sides with your opponent. How might you prepare for the demise of the pieces you are playing?
- Royal Magician's Chess. King and special magician piece earn the right to drop pieces when they venture out to the fourth, fifth and sixth ranks!
- Royal Pawn Chess. Same as FIDE Chess, except the pawns in front of the kings are royal, meaning the object is to checkmate them and not the king.
- The Royal Standard. Highly original game that introduced the famous windmill piece!
- Samarcanda. Zebras, Camels, Crooked Bishops, Squirrels and the FIDE Army populate this exciting game.
- Schach-B. One selected from among the Fischer Random boards, also known as Fischer Random position # 542.
- Seenschach. Crooked Bishops, Reflecting Bishops, Harvesters and Hornets navigate around a giant central abyss.
- Seeping Switchers - A Chess with Different Armies Variant. Chess with Different Armies variant with Panda, knight wazir, slip queen and a lame bent rider unicorn.
- Separate. FIDE Chess but with Queens starting trapped behind enemy lines.
- Shatranj Kamil. Shatranj Kamil or "Perfect Chess" a historical variant combining alfils, camels rooks and ferz.
- Shatranjian Shogi. Ferz and wazir, dabbaba and elephant offset each other in this new Shatranj drop game.
- Spartan Chess 28. Small board game created as simple diversion by brilliant hexagonal chess inventor Graeme C. Neatham.
- Squirrels and Camels Chess. Squirrels camels and renn cavaliers along with FIDE pieces and guards on this 10 x 10 board.
- Stones and Relays. Pieces get to re-originate from neutral relay squares they attack.
- Stuck in the Middle with You. 3 Different Boards and 3 Different Armies!
- Super Knights Grand Chess. Two Chancellors, One Archbishop, no knights and Amazon among Bishops, Rooks...
- Super Maharadscha. The Maharaja in Maharaja and the Sepoys is thought to be inferior: What if you added the camel move?
- Tamerlane Chess. Chess game said to have been favored, perhaps even invented, by ruler Timur the Lame in the 14th c.
- Tamerlane II. Cazaux's modern take on Tamerlane Chess.
- Tango Chess. Using triangulators that move as bishops and different types of pawns that can be repositioned by side spacious wazirs.
- Texarkana. Colorbound pieces have non-capturing, square-creating wazir move which they can use to switch to an alternate universe.
- Threat Chess, Attackers Chess and Victims Chess. Missing description
- Three Elephants Chess. War Towers destroy 3 spaces at a time - Protect your elephants while capturing your opponent's!
- Tiling Rider Chess. This game was inspired by tiles seen in many bathrooms and sidewalks.
- Time Travel Chessgi. One can travel backwards or forwards in time, bringing along all one's possessions.
- Tonight. Superstrength double moving knight pieces and king that can create squares for itself to move in limited area.
- Torus Chess. Besiege Chess re-visualized, specifically as Torus Chess.
- Torus Standard. Uses the ordinary FIDE pieces on 8 x 8 board but configured in such a way as to permit the board to be toroidal!
- Toulousain Chess. Jean-Louis Cazaux's 12 x 12 chess variant dedicated to his town of Toulouse.
- Tree Garden Chess. Zebras, camels, cardinals, marshalls negotiate around a central lacuna.
- Tripunch Chess. Superpowerful composite pieces play on the FIDE board.
- Turkish Chess. The small version of Giant Chess.
- Tutti-Frutti Chess. With bishop-knight, knight-rook, queen-knight and the usual pieces on an 8 by 8 board.
- Twilit. Knight Ferzes, Knight Wazirs and their complements, in the form of Fye'tins and Templars.
- Twin Knights. Pairs of Knight-Ferzes, Knights and Knight-wazirs on small board with holes in it.
- Unicorn Chess. Unicorn Chess with one queen, two cardinalriders and two marshalls.
- Vortex Chess. Similar to Warp Point Chess only with "portals" that are more dynamic and split between the two players...
- Wives and Guards. FIDE setup with additional pieces to offset white's first move advantage - two ferzes + two wazirs against two guards.
- Wuss. Introducing the weakening Wuss piece, which must move when attacked but can not capture.
- X Chess. Hourglass shaped board with piece density of nearly 50%, and diagonal pieces.
- Xhatranj. Contemporary shatranj with more advanced pieces including interesting hook movers.
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