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Week ending August 27, 2022

1. Void Shogi. Modest Shogi variant with more diverse promotions for the minor pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Andrew L Smith.

Week ending August 06, 2022

1. Chess Remix. Create your chess variant. () By Alexandr Oleshko.
2. Uneven pieces chess. The two armies have their back rank material distributed in different ways, discouraging trades. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Andrew L Smith.

Week ending July 30, 2022

1. Three Realms Chess. A three layer variant with familiar and fantastical pieces. (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) By Andrew L Smith.
2. Majority Chess. You can move a piece only if it is on a file where you have a majority of pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Emiliano "Wentu" Venturini.
3. Omnichess. Omnichess - Create and play chess variants. 2-8 players. Square, Hexagonal, Triangular board types. By ch1gz .
4. Chess 66. Board based on the 8x8 arrangement - with the difference that 66 fields are now available. (8x8, Cells: 66) By Gerd P. Degens.

Week ending July 23, 2022

1. VD Chess. VD Chess is a game of random chess with 5,760 possible starting positions and with fairy pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Davor Vujacic.
2. Shogessi.... A link to the Tabletop Simulator module. Updated rules/graphics. (17x(17x19), Cells: 289) By Eric Watkins.
3. Quadlevel 3D Chess. Four level 3d chess. (4x(4x8), Cells: 128) Author: Robert Koernke Jr. Inventor: Robert Koernke Sr and Robert Koernke Jr.

Week ending July 16, 2022

1. Continental Chess. Continental Chess is Chess Variations with many types of pieces such as stepper, leaper, hopper and rider. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Siwakorn Songrag.
2. Avatar Chess. Game with avatars that can assume any piece of chess, depending on the fields of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.
3. https://www.omnichess.club/variant/bc6b6876-dbdc-419c-bba4-3e462. Missing description

Week ending July 09, 2022

1. d4 d6 chess. Dice determine the number of steps you can move with your piece. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Maurice Dekker.
2. Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced. By Daniel Zacharias.
3. Tank Chess. Upgrade your tank to defeat others. By Alexander Mach.

Week ending June 04, 2022

1. Wild Tamerlane Chess. Game Courier Preset to play Wild Tamerlane Chess, a fury on 11x11 board. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending May 28, 2022

1. Ultimate Hexagonal Chess. Hexagonal chess that has no equal. By Max Koval.
2. Shatranj With Different Armies. Like Chess with Different Armies, but for Shatranj. By Andrew L Smith.
3. Shogi with Impassable Kings. A modest fix to Shogi that makes impasses impossible. By Fergus Duniho.
4. Chennis. Kyoto-Shogi-inspired variant (with alternating piece sides), with a tennis theme. By Daniel Lee.

Week ending May 21, 2022

1. Skica. 10x10 with Ski pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Daniel Zacharias.

Week ending May 14, 2022

1. Turtle Shell Chess. Chess on a 33344-33434 tiling. (5x7, Cells: 64) By Samuel Trenholme.

Week ending May 07, 2022

1. Leo. Moves on queen lines, but must jump once when taking. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: T. R. Dawson.
2. Lion (2). Moves on queen-lines but must jump exactly one piece. Appears in fairy chess problems. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.

Week ending April 30, 2022

1. Decimaka (revised). Game where pieces promote on making a capture. (10x10) By H. G. Muller.

Week ending April 16, 2022

1. Hostage Chess . Pieces taken are held hostage and can be exchanged against other pieces and then dropped. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: John Leslie.
2. Miller's Spherical Chess. Play this early adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Don Miller.
3. Devingt Chess. Game Courier to play Devingt Chess, on a 10x10 board with Sages (=Camels). Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Leopold de Labrousse.
4. Yapsan's Spherical Chess. Play this early adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Peter Yapsan.
5. Chess on the Dot. Play this adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Joshua Chou.

Week ending April 09, 2022

1. Aberg's variation of Capablanca's Chess. Play this variation on the Play-by-Email system! Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Hans Aberg.

Week ending March 26, 2022

1. Nadvorney's Spherical Chess. Play Nadnorney's adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Leo Nadvorney.

Week ending February 26, 2022

1. Duchess. For 2, 3, 4 or 6 players on a rose-shaped board. and John Kramer.
2. Cubic Chess. Three dimensional chess variant on 7 by 7 by 7 board. (Link.). (7x(7x7), Cells: 343)
3. 3D Chess 4 Cubed. Three dimensional chess on 4 by 4 by 4 board. (Link.). (4x(4x4), Cells: 64)

Week ending February 19, 2022

1. Regenbogen. Unusual spectrum-based game with Wizards, Clerics and Spirits. (Cells: 44) By Jared B. McComb.
2. Azchess. Variant of Grand Chess in which one amazon is added to each side. By Namik Zade.

Week ending February 12, 2022

1. Board Space. Website and app for playing abstract strategy board games. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho.

Week ending January 29, 2022

1. VIZAVI. Missing description By Сергей Маэстро.
2. E-Chess. The chess pieces appear on the board during the game. By Вадря Покштя.
3. Shinobi Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has droppable Shogi-inspired pieces that start in hand. By Daniel Lee.

Week ending January 15, 2022

1. Fantastic XIII. This is the G.C. preset for Fantastic XIII, a bizarre CV,13 types of pieces on 13x13 board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending January 01, 2022

1. Fairy Eater Chess. Game on a 9x9 board with fairy chess pieces. By Вадря Покштя.
2. Reservists' doublechess. Each side has 16 non-pawn pieces, split among 10 types. By Andrew L Smith.

Week ending December 18, 2021

1. Mosaic Chess. Large variant combining pieces from various other games. By Daniel Zacharias.
2. Hannibal Chess (GC preset with enforced rules). A Game Courier Preset for Hannibal Chess with enforced rules. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Kevin Pacey.

Week ending December 04, 2021

1. Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules. By A. M. DeWitt.

Week ending November 27, 2021

1. Koval's Hexagonal Chess. A new way to play chess on hexagonal cells. By Max Koval.
2. Solar Chess. 2 to 6 players on a hexagonal board with quadrilateral tiles and Shogi-inspired drop rules. By Jeff Cornell.
3. Threehex. Hexagonal variant for three players. By Max Koval.

Week ending November 20, 2021

1. Saisho shogi. Game with one dice-shaped shared piece. By Francesco Fonseca.
2. Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules. By A. M. DeWitt.

Week ending November 13, 2021

1. Koval's Hexagonal Chess. Game Courier Preset to play Koval's Hexagonal Chess. By Max Koval.

Week ending November 06, 2021

1. Cannon Shosu Shogi. Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons. By A. M. DeWitt.

Week ending October 30, 2021

1. Simplified Makpong. Makruk variant. By Henk Drost.

Week ending October 23, 2021

1. Spherical Corner Chess. Game on a truly topologically spherical board with corner‐camp arrays. By Bn Em.
2. 12 Augmenters Chess. Each piece's movement capabilities is increased by ~4 squares. By Andrew L Smith.
3. Delta-Nabla Chess. Chess translated to a triangular grid as naturally as possible. By Jeff Cornell.
4. Pemba. Game Courier Preset to play Pemba, 60 pieces on the decimal board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending October 02, 2021

1. Armor Chess. Personal shields protect pieces from one of the 8 directions. Author: Ben M Reiniger and Vladimir . Inventor: Vladimir .
2. Futashikana Shogi. Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board. By A. M. DeWitt.
3. Futashikana Shogi. Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board. By A. M. DeWitt.
4. Renezans Chess. 9x9 game with gnus and central powerup square. Author: Ben M Reiniger. Inventor: Bi-Triad.
5. ChessArena.io. Real-time, many-player, "io-style" game. Author: Ben M Reiniger. Inventor: ChessArena.
6. The Starbound Sliders. A Chess With Different Armies team featuring rook-inspired sliders. By Andrew L Smith.
7. Chess variants fandom wiki. Fandom wiki for chess variants. Author: dead dead.

Week ending September 25, 2021

1. Devingt Chess. Decimal chess with 20 pieces per side including Sages (moving as Camels). Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Leopold de Labrousse.

Week ending August 28, 2021

1. Folding Magnetic Chess. fold between D&E files, play on both sides. Author: Deep Thought.
2. Brouhaha. Like Chess, but it really brings the ruckus! (8x8, Cells: 72) By Greg Strong.
3. Battle of Kings. You start with eight pawns. The rest chess pieces appear on the board during the game. By Вадря Покштя.
4. Chess vs Strong Makruk. Chess against an enhanced Makruk army in an 8x8 board. By Albert Lee.
5. Two Move Chess. Designed to alleviate the first move advantage for White using double moves, while retaining the tactics of international chess. By Ted Larson Freeman.
6. Shou Dou Qi: The Battle of Animals - The Jungle Game. Simulated conflict between animal kingdoms. (7x9, Cells: 63) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending August 21, 2021

1. Spherical chess. Sides of the board are considered to be connected to form a sphere. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Alessandro Castelli and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Don Miller and Leo Nadvorney.

Week ending August 14, 2021

1. Cylindrical Chess. Sides of the board are supposed to be connected. Author: Antoine Fourrière and Fergus Duniho.

Week ending August 07, 2021

1. Amazonia. 11x11 board with Pawns that promote to Princesses in the middle of the board. By Albert Lee.

Week ending July 31, 2021

1. Pandemonium. Capablanca chess + Crazyhouse. By Daphne Snowmoon.

Week ending July 17, 2021

1. Sorchess. A somewhat unorthodox Wizard enters the 64sq arena, yet with good charm. By Simon Edward Jepps.
2. Xiangqi Database. A large collection of Xiangqi games. Author: Fergus Duniho.
3. ChessCraft. An Android app for playing Chess variants. Author: Fergus Duniho.
4. ChessCraft. Missing description (Cells: 64) By Changcai Chen.

Week ending July 10, 2021

1. Maasai Chess. Play Maasai Chess with Game Courier. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending July 03, 2021

1. High Chess. Drawn games are instead won by the player whose King is closest to the centre. By Grant Sinclair.
2. Xiangqi.com Chinese Chess. A server for playing Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) online. Author: Fergus Duniho.
3. Chess for Three. A 3-player variant on an unusual board. Author: Fergus Duniho.
4. Quantum Chess. Chess with a quantum mechanical twist. By Stephen Tavener.
5. Conservative Capablanca Chess. Alternative, more traditional Capablanca chess setup. Author: Davor Vujacic. Inventor: Davor Vujacic and David Paulowich.
6. Doubles Chess. A four-player game for two teams on an unusual board. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Rick Gillespie and Henry Rolling.
7. Ai Ai. Ai Ai is a Java general game playing programme, with many chess variants. By Stephen Tavener.
8. Kingsmen. 9x9 board with two extra Bishops. Pieces gain the King's moveset upon reaching the last three ranks. By Albert Lee.
9. Hajiku Shogi. Inspired by Shogi and Chu Shogi. Pieces can both promote and demote in promotion zone. By Edward Webb.
10. Palace. 7x7 board with a 3x3 Palace at the centre, where King promotes to Queen. By Albert Lee.
11. Platonic Chess. Platonic solids in a complete 10x10 chessboard. By Albert Lee.

Week ending June 26, 2021

1. Orda Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like knights but capture differently. By Daniel Lee.
2. Synochess. Asymmetric west vs east variant where the western chess army plays against a Chinese and Korean-inspired army. By Daniel Lee.
3. Chec Toe. Chec Toe is a 4x4 Chess variant played with a six sided die, incorporating uniquely designed features, such as Checkering, Cross. By Simon Edward Jepps.
4. Co-Regal Chess. Take the enemy King/Queen and checkmate the remaining monarch to win. By Tank .
5. Quantum Chess. Chess meets Quantum Physics. Author: Fergus Duniho.
6. Quantum Chess . Commercial variant with new pieces on 10 by 10 and 12 by 12 boards. (10x10, Cells: 100)
7. Stanley Random Chess . Missing description Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Austin Lockwood.

Week ending June 19, 2021

1. Capatomic Random Chess. Variant that combines Capablanca Random and Stratomic Chess. By Gaelyn Autumnsong.

Week ending June 12, 2021

1. Yangsi. A very playable chess variant with 12 different pieces on a 10x10 board. By A. M. DeWitt.
2. Nested Chess. A variant hiding another on its diagonals. (15x15, Cells: 141) By Charles Gilman.
3. Beautiful Beasts. A new team for Chess with Different Armies based on the Roc. By Jörg Knappen.
4. Fool's Hexagonal Chess. designed to be a close (the closest?) hexagonal equivalent to orthodox chess. (Cells: 96) By Graeme C Neatham.
5. Bandit Chess. Missing description (9x7, Cells: 63) By Patrik Hedman.
6. Hourglass Honeycomb Chess. 2 overlapping triangular prisms form a hex-prism board maximising the King's choice of Castling. (7x(7x7), Cells: 280) By Charles Gilman.
7. Decisive Chess. Chess, but replacing draw rules with win/loss rules. By Iwer Sonsch.
8. Spiral Chess. The royal pieces slide along a spiral trajectory. By H. G. Muller.

Week ending June 05, 2021

1. Pink Chess. White has two Kings, black two Queens as royal pieces. By H. G. Muller.
2. Tjatoer!. A chess variant written in Python, designed to stress test engines. By Halfen Ludith.
3. Grand Betza. A tribute to Ralph Betza on a 10x10 board with pawns on the third rank as in Grand Chess. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: John Davis.
4. Grand Betza. Play Grand Betza on Game Courier. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: John Davis.

Week ending May 22, 2021

1. Chess and a Half. Game with extra leapers. By sirius628.

Week ending May 15, 2021

1. Colossus. Large-board chess with standard pieces and double the number of bishops, rooks and knights. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
2. Grasshopper Chess. Each player has eight additional grasshoppers. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
3. Renniassance Chess. With 68 pieces on board of 12 by 12. (12x10, Cells: 120) By Eric V. Greenwood.
4. WGRCV. WGR Index of Chess Variants.
5. The Sultan's Game. Variant on 11 by 11 board from 19th century Germany. (11x11, Cells: 121) Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: Peguilhen.

Week ending May 08, 2021

1. Alfaerie SVG Piece Graphics. The Alfaerie set of piece graphics in scalable SVG format. Author: Greg Strong.

Week ending May 01, 2021

1. Meta-chess Digital Edition. Digital Copy of 'Meta-chess' by John W Brown. Author: Sean Bass and John William Brown.

Week ending April 24, 2021

1. Courier Chess. Play this historic Chess variant with Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain.
2. Quantum Chess. Pieces may teleport, provided their start and end squares are unobserved. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Stephen Tavener.
3. Tiger Chess. A large game with fast-moving pieces. By Daniel Zacharias.

Week ending April 17, 2021

1. Lemurian Shatranj. 8x8 variant that features short-range pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joe Joyce.

Week ending April 10, 2021

1. Grand Shatranj . Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
2. Atlantean Barroom Shatranj . Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
3. Great Shatranj . Shatranj style game on 10x8 board. By Christine Bagley-Jones.
4. Lemurian Shatranj . Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
5. 3D Arimaa . 3D Arimaa - Arimaa meets Raumschach. By Tim O'Lena.

Week ending April 03, 2021

1. Jetan. Play Edgar Rice Burrough's Jetan (Martian Chess). Author: James Killian Spratt and Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Edgar Rice Burroughs.
2. Assymetrical diagonal chess. Diaonal chess (well balanced) variant with 8 pawns per player. By Zbigniew Kokosiński.
3. KMF's 12x12 Dozenal Chess. Adds rifle-capturing archers and royalty-inheriting princes. By dead dead.
4. Grand Apothecary Chess-Modern. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
5. Grand Apothecary Chess-Classic. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.

Week ending March 27, 2021

1. King's speech. 360 random positions with the King always exposed and vulnerable. By Davor Vujacic.

Week ending March 20, 2021

1. ChessXp. 10x10 Chess, strictly derived from the 8x8 architecture. By Uli Schwekendiek.

Week ending March 13, 2021

1. Amazon Chess. Play this game in which the Queen can also move as a Knight on Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain.
2. Byzantine Chess. Play this historical circular variant with Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain.
3. Brusky's Hexagonal Chess. Play this wide hexagonal variant with Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain. Inventor: Yakov Brusky.
4. Baby Chess. Play this small 5x5 variant on Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain. Inventor: Martin Gardner.
5. Chess Attack. Play this small 5x6 variant with Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain. Inventor: Werner Kling.
6. 3D Chess. Play 3D Chess in your browser with Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain.
7. Xiangqi. Play Chinese Chess (known as Xiangqi) with Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain.
8. Left-Right Chess. A large variant with some pieces that move as a Rook only left or right. By J Paleja.
9. Knavish Shatranj . Shatranj style game on 8x8 board. Author: Christine Bagley-Jones. Inventor: Jörg Knappen.
10. Knavish Shatranj. Shatranj with Knaves and Debtors. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
11. Querquisite. A piece whose move changes depending on the file on which it starts its move. Author: Jörg Knappen. Inventor: J. E. H. Creed.

Week ending March 06, 2021

1. Bollwerk 178. Occupying the opponent’s end field with a piece or a bomb. By Stefan Bogdanski.

Week ending February 27, 2021

1. Knockoff Chess. Chess with pieces that push each other around and off the board. By Daniel Zacharias.
2. Poison Pawn Chess. Capture the wrong pawn and you lose. Author: calebmcc111. Inventor: Samay Raina.
3. Tiraspol chess. Variant in which pieces capture as the piece whose starting file they're in. By Max K..
4. Chess 99. Game with 9 pawns and a paladin. The objective is to capture the opponent's king. Many rules altered. By Claude Lapointe.
5. Phantom. Classical Chess featuring an invisible Phantom piece. By Simon Edward Jepps.
6. MightyChess. Capablanca Chess, but stronger pieces. By James Zuercher.
7. Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
8. Generals' Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By Patrik Hedman.
9. Pawn Blackhole Chess. Each side is split into two and grouped into corners. Pawns play towards the center. Author: Nemo Thorx. Inventor: Nemo Thorx and Adam Corbally.
10. Royal Court. Play Royal Court on Game Courier. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: Sidney LeVasseur.

Week ending February 20, 2021

1. Sai squad. A very experimental army for Chess with different armies, featuring the Sai (Bishop-Quintessence compound). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.

Week ending February 13, 2021

1. CHESSAGON. CHESSAGON® is like traditional Chess, but with Triangles, with one new additional piece named the Duke. By Kerry Langford.

Week ending February 06, 2021

1. Paradigm Chess30. Chess with Dragon Bishop and 30 positions. By Craig Willenberg and Lourenzo Van Niekerk.

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