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123456 Chess. Missing description
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.
Actuated Rotating Center Chess. Center rotates, you choose when and how.
Amalgamated Chess. Missing description
Amalgamated Chess. Incorporates some aspects of historical variants, but uses only usual equipment. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Andy's Chess. Missing description
Archoniclastic Chess. Pieces are augmented on squares of their color. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Arimaa
. Uses same equipment as Chess, but designed to be difficult for computers.
Arimaa. Board game playable with standard chess set, hard for computers. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Atlantis Chess
. Instead of moving, a player may remove an square from the edges of the board.
Atlantis Chess. You may sink an edge square instead of moving a unit.
Atlantis Chess. Instead of moving, a player may remove an square from the edges of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Beginners Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Beginners Chess. Missing description
Berolina Grid Chess. Popular with NOST.
Berolina Grid Chess. Combination of Berolina Chess and Grid Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Beyond Chess (tm). Commercial variant with dynamic board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Billiards Chess. Bishops and queens bounce off the edges.
Billiards progressive chess. Progressive chess variant where queens and bishops bounce against the edges of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Bishop Knight Morph Factor.
Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Black Hole Chess. Pieces moved to the center four squares of the board fall into your hand.
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. A chip, moved each turn by the players, denotes a square where pieces may not go to. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Blue Chip Chess. Missing description
BordahBee, A Two-Board Game (two 8x8 boards). Missing description (2x(8x8), Cells: 128)
Breakthrough Chess. Pieces must "break through" a zone of neutral blocks. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Building Chess. Variant that starts with a board of 25 squares, but each player adds a square after their move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Center of Attention. FIDE Chess but with an additional winning condition: Move your king unchecked into a center square.
Centerless Chess. No center pawns or squares.
Central Chess. Move twice per turn, once in center and once on edge.
Central Rotational Chess. Plays like chess except the center (4 squares) rotate after each move and kings must be captured (instead of mated). (8x8, Cells: 64)
CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns.
Chameleon Chess Redux. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chasm Chess. Berolina Pawns, reflecting Bishop and Queen, and a chasm in the board! (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chasm Chess. Berolina Pawns, reflecting Bishop and Queen, and a chasm in the board!
Cheshire Cat Chess. Squares are disappearing. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Cheshire Cat Chess
. When a unit leaves a square, the square vanishes.
Cheshire Cat Chess. When a unit leaves a square, the square vanishes.
Chess in the Fast Lane
. The 64-squares of a regular Chess board are grouped into 41 "regions" producing a small board that looks full size.
Chess in the Fast Lane. The 64-squares of a regular Chess board are grouped into 41 "regions" producing a small board that looks full size. (8x8, Cells: 41)
Chess in the Round. 1970's commercial variant that allows turning corners with the Rook and Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chess Is Wild. Pieces acquire special moves in the inner 16 squares. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chess Latrunculi duo milia et septum. Chess with dragon horse and dragon king movements for bishops and rooks. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Chess on the Dot. Play this adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
Chess on the Rainbows
. Players must retain a piece on all 6 colors of a 6-color board.
Chess on the Rainbows. Six different colors light up the board. You have to keep a piece on each color throughout...
Chess960.com
. Talk about Chess960 with other members.
Chessembly. Open Board Setup, Free Placement Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
ChessVariants.zrf. 17 variants in 1 file.
ChessXp. 10x10 Chess, strictly derived from the 8x8 architecture.
chexx. Another variant of hexagonal chess. (Cells: 63)
Chutes and Ladders Chess. Game played on two boards with two sets with user placed and removed chutes and ladders connecting the boards. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Claustrophobia.
Played utilizing 46 squares of a chessboard, using new unique pieces, all of which can be represented by the standard pieces. (5x8, Cells: 46)
Cleopatra Chess. Dan Troyka game, similar to Benedict Chess but with only one color-changing piece. Cleopatra "seduces" any piece she sees.
Closing Time. During certain turns, you must move pieces out of a central area of the board (`the pub'). (8x8, Cells: 64)
Coalition. Missing description
Cold War Chess. A long and very challanging game against all odds.
The Consuls.
Chess with two Kings and Pawns that can capture as Bishop, Knight, and Rook on the enemy side.
Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description
Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Continental Chess. Continental Chess is Chess Variations with many types of pieces such as stepper, leaper, hopper and rider. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Contramatic Chess. This king can walk right into check! The goal for this king is to get checkmated.
Crowd Chess 1: Safety in Numbers. More pieces can occupy the same square - you can only form or move to a crowd by a non-capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Crowd Chess 2: All Go Together. More pieces can occupy the same square and share the same fate. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Crush Chess. After every 10 moves, the perimeter disappears.
Crushed Chess. After every 10 turns, the perimeter disappears.
Cursed Chess. Squares where a piece is taken become forbidden for the capturing player. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Cylinder Chess. First and eighth files connect.
A Cylinder chess puzzle - 1. Missing description
A Cylinder chess puzzle - 2. Missing description
Cylindrical Chess. Sides of the board are supposed to be connected.
Cylindrical Chess. Sides of the board are supposed to be connected. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Czech Chess. Drop pawns by checking the King. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Defensive Chess. White king is not royal, and Red units (except king) cannot go beyond the midline. If White has not won by 50 moves, Red wins.
Diagonal Chess. Board turned 45 degrees. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Diagonal Chess
. Board turned 45 degrees.
Dice Chess
. Die roll determines which type of piece is moved.
Displaced Grid Chess. A Grid Chess variant that allows kings to visit corners, etc.
Don't Cross Midnight. Chess on a rotating planet; units may not cross the International.
Doppelganger Chess. Pieces and their doppelgangers are connected for capture and promotion! (8x8, Cells: 64)
Double Alternate Chess
. Game played on two boards with object to checkmate either King.
E-Chess. The chess pieces appear on the board during the game.
Each Piece Once Chess. Each turn, move as many as all your pieces, but only once!
Eclipse Chess. Units in the eclipse zone cannot move or give check.
Edge Chess
. Pieces can stand on the edges of squares.
Edge Chess
. Pieces can stand on the edges of squares.
En Passant Chess. All pieces have the en passant option. Koksal Karakus version.
Extended squares Chess. Some areas of adjacent squares of the board can be seen as one cell. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidal board using three warp lines with 8 corners tied together. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidally interwoven board using same number of squares and pieces as FIDE Chess.
Fifo Chess. Each square acts as a First-In-First-Out queue. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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".
Floßschach. Part of the board is a lake, where rafts can transport pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Fluid Chess. Pieces can move into (or through or out of and into again) friendly pieces ("into" up to compounds).
Folding Magnetic Chess. fold between D&E files, play on both sides.
Fortress
. Die roll determines which type of piece is moved.
Four-Fold Chess. Missing description (16x16, Cells: 256)
Gladiator Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Greener Chess. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence -- and your pieces are stronger there too. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Grid Chess. Always move to a different 2 by 2 square part of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Grid Chess. Always move to a different 4 by 4 square part of the board.
Grid Chess
. Always move to a different 4 by 4 square part of the board.
Guschess
. Pieces can freely move in one of 38 areas on the board.
Guschess. Pieces can freely move in one of 38 areas on the board. (8x8, Cells: 38)
Half Courier. Missing description
Henry VIII Chess. This is a hybrid capture king-losing chess variant. (7x8, Cells: 56)
Hobgoblin Chess. Inchworm crowd-forming magnetic mutating lunar-hallway exploding-Pawn Chess; an extreme game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Home Columns Chess. A piece cannot be captured when in its 'home' column.
Hop Chess. The same as FIDE chess plus a special piece called the hopper. (8x8, Cells: 64)
House of Mirrors Chess. Mirrors and reflective pieces add interesting twists to strategy by making pieces appear in 2 or 3 places at the same time. (8x8, Cells: 87)
Huntsman Chess
. Missing description
Huntsman Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 80)
Hydrant Chess
. Special rules govern how pieces move between four quadrants of the board.
Ibu Ibu Chess. Ibu Ibu Chess in which the king's entourage protects it from Ubi-Ubis.
Ibu Ibu Chess. Introduces the concept of a King's entourage, making King powerful and protected. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Ice Age Chess. Every 20th move, the board freezes and ice cubes appear on almost every empty square. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Ice Age Chess. Blocks of ice cover the board at intervals.
Indistinguishable Chess. Player pieces indistinguishable from each other. Board squares are indistinguishable. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Indistinguishable Chess. All pawns and pieces appear the same in color and size, for both sides. The board has no 'dark' squares.
Island Chess
. Some connections between squares are missing.
Joyful Chess. One special square enhances a piece's powers, the other diminishes them.
Kings. Kings on the Game Courier.
Knavish Shatranj. Shatranj with Knaves and Debtors. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Koksal Karakus' En Passant Chess -. All pieces have the en passant option. Koksal Karakus version.
Kriegspiel Zillions v 2.0 file
. Zillions file to play Kriegspiel against the computer. The human player's pieces are not hidden.
Levitating Kings. Kings can levitate orthagonally or diagonally over a line of friendly pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Little Trio. Missing description
Lumberjack. Pieces move according to their current column.
Lumberjack. Pieces move depending on the column they are on. (8x8, Cells: 64)
M!C Chess. All pieces but the king move and capture differently in a 10x10 board.
Mad Queen Shogi. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Magician's Chess. Pieces switch board sides with each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Magicpawns Chess. Any piece can move to friendly pawn and change place with it. Pawns thus become more dynamic and pieces less constrained.
Makruk. Play the traditional Chess variant of Thailand on Game Courier.
Makruk Library. Missing description
Masking Chess. Mask and move pieces so they are invisible to the opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Maxim chess. Variant, invented by my little brother. (8x8, Cells: 64)
mettamorphachess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Michell's Proposal. Pawns may underpromote on next-to-last rank.
Miller's Spherical Chess. Play this early adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
Minefield Chess. Two of your squares have hidden mines that can destroy an enemy unit.
Minesweeper chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Minotaur Chess. Variant with board turned 45 degrees. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Mockery Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
More Shifted Square Chess. Shifted Square Chess needs more than one page to explore its possibilities. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Move as square says. Game with identical piece, movement depends on location. (8x8, Cells: 64)
MRC64. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
MRC64. Modern Random Chess 64.
Multi-Dimensional Multi-Player (MDMP) Chess. 2-8 player Chess, traditional and alternate armies, optional laser.
Multi-King Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Multiple Occupancy Miscellany. Various chess variants with multiple pieces per square. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Multiple of 10 Checkmate. Variant where you can only checkmate or be checkmated on move 10, 20, 30, ect..
Nadvorney's Spherical Chess. Play Nadnorney's adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
Near Chess. This is a variant of Skirmish Chess designed to be friendlier to newbies. (8x8, Cells: 64)
No Entry Chess. Bar the opponent's access to one square after each of your moves.
No-Retreating Chess. A varient where you can't retreat until you get to the last rank. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Noble WingS Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Not-so colorbound cylindrical chess. Game only with pieces, that would be colorbound on normal board. (7x8, Cells: 56)
Null Chess. Squares on which captures have taken place can no longer be visited.
Null chess. Capture squares are destroyed when vacated.
ObstructionChess. A new chess variant designed to challenge old strategies and improve your chess play with logical and organic obstructions. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Off Board Chess Pieces
. Die roll determines which type of piece is moved.
One Way Chess
. Missing description
Orda Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like knights but capture differently.
PieceEater Chess
. Yet another game with an indestructible randomly-wandering neutral piece.
PieceEater Chess. Yet another game with an indestructible randomly-wandering neutral piece. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Pied Color Chess. Oh no! All the colors on the board have been scrambled -- however will the pieces move? (8x8, Cells: 64)
Pillow Chess
. Chess on a Pillow-shaped board.
Plaid Chess. Progressive Grid chess.
Platform Chess. Pieces move normally or ride on 2x2 platforms that move themselves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Platform Chess
. Pieces move normally or ride on 2x2 platforms that move themselves.
Pocket Mutation Chess. Take one of your pieces off the board, maybe change it, keep it in reserve, and drop it on the board later. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
Pocket Mutation Chess
. Take one of your pieces off the board, maybe change it, keep it in reserve, and drop it on the board later.
Pocket Mutation Chess. Take one of your pieces off the board, maybe change it, keep it in reserve, and drop it on the board later.
Poker Chess. Squares contain cards, and players win by forming poker hands with the cards on the squares occupied by their pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Portal Chess. Two boards and pieces can teleport from one board to another. Also playable with two half-boards. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Pot-Hole Chess. Game where pot-holes open up on the board at random times. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Prime.Ministers Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
The Princess and The Warrior
. Pieces' moves are limited by their current rank except for the two new pieces.
Prisoners
. Die roll determines which type of piece is moved.
Quarter Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
R-Chess
. Captured pieces are held in reserve and then dropped.
Race Chess. On a circular board where white and black pawns move in the same direction. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Raft Chess. Part of the board is a lake, where rafts can transport pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Random Wormhole Chess. Introduces "wormholes" and "toroidal" movement in a fun and manageable way. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rank and File Chess. Move from Most Crowded Row. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Realm chess. Board is divided into realms and multiple pieces can move into and out of a realm in one turn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Recapturable Chess. Captured pieces belong to other player and then removed permanently. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Relativistic Chess. Squares attacked by the opponent are considered not to exist. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Relativistic Chess. Squares attacked by the opponent are considered not to exist.
Rental Chess. You must pay rent for the squares where your pieces are: centre squares are more expensive. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rotating Cylinder Chess. Positions of pieces rotate one square to the right after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rotation Chess. Every ten moves, switch sides with your opponent. How might you prepare for the demise of the pieces you are playing?
Rotation Chess. Every 10th move, the board is turned around. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rotation Chess. Every ten turns, you switch and play the other player's units.
Royal Magician Chess. Missing description
Royal Magician's Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
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. Missing description
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.
Rubble Chess
. Pieces must clear out unoccupied squares before they can move through them.
Rubble Chess. Pieces must clear out unoccupied squares before they can move through them. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rubble Chess. Pieces must clear out unoccupied squares before they can move through them.
Safe Passage. Move pieces to opposite side without putting pieces in danger of capture.
Secret Agent Chess. Each player chooses one opposing minor piece to be a secret agent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Share Squares. AKA Two's Company; Three's a Crowd.
Shatar, Old 1 Hia. Old Shatar with one Hia. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shifted Square Chess. One square is removed from the normal playing area and one square is added at the edge of the normal playing area. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shogun Chess. Pieces promote and can be dropped, similar to Shogi.
Shrink Chess. The board is shrinking. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shrink Chess. Emptied rows and columns vanish permanently.
Shrink Chess II. Emptied edge rows and edge columns vanish permanently.
Simpleton's Chess Preset. This is an even simplier version of Simplified Chess.
Simplified Chess. Missing description (8x7, Cells: 56)
Singularity Chess. A fixed and fully notated form of singularity chess.
Skandaran Chess
. Download Skandaran Chess at Zillions Website.
Skirmish56 Chess. This is Skirmish Chess on an Simplified Chess board. (7x8, Cells: 46)
Smaller Alice Chess. Missing description
Soul Reaver Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Spacious Torus Chess. Chess on a toroidal board, using Ralph Betza's spacious pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Spacious Torus Chess. Toroidal 8 x 8 using "spacious" FIDE pieces which require the next square beyond to be empty to either move or capture.
Spacious Torus Chess
. Chess on a toroidal board, using Ralph Betza's spacious pieces.
Spherical chess. Sides of the board are considered to be connected to form a sphere. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Spherical Corner Chess. Game on a truly topologically spherical board with corner‐camp arrays.
Squarcle Chess
. Orthogonal pieces travel in square loops, diagonal pieces reflect.
Squarcle Chess. Orthogonal pieces travel in square loops, diagonal pieces reflect. (8x8, Cells: 64)
StrataChess v1.0. separate Strategic and Tactical gameplay. 2-6 players. Element of Chance. Terrain. Build your own armies.
Strate-Go Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Suicide Void Chess. Variant of Suicide Chess. A piece creating a void in the board is moved after each capture. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Super-Chess
. www.oteroideas.com.
Tao's Chess. Chess variant where as you move across a line, the pieces reverse roles.
Terrain Chess
. Die roll determines which type of piece is moved.
Terrain Chess. Roll dice to create impassable squares. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Threat Chess, Attackers Chess and Victims Chess. Missing description
Tiled Squares Chess
. Drop tiles to create the board as you play.
Tiled Squares Chess. Drop tiles to create the board as you play. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Tiled Squares Chess. Play this game, where you drop tiles to create the board as you play!
Tingles, Bumps, and Punches. A set of variants on cylindrical and toroidal boards featuring a peace bump between the top and bottom of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Topologies Chess
. Chess on a Cylindrical board, on a Toroidal Board, on a Mobius Strip and on a Klein Bottle.
Torus Chess on a Standard Board. Torus Chess on a standard board with a unique setup. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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!
Trapdoor Chess. Pieces fall through the board if they stand still too long. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Trek71 Chess
. All pieces on the lefthand-side are shown as black, but do not change owners, and vise-versa.
Tron Chess. Every square passed by the queen creates a wall that hinders movement. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Twinkie Danger Chess. Game on two initially unliked boards where each turn you add or drop a link. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Vagabond Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Vavulin Creative Chess. Before the start of the game, every player, creates up with one rule for both players, which operates the whole game.
Wild Kingdom. Animal armies battle for control of the Wild Kingdom! (10x10, Cells: 100)
Windows Chess. Windows Chess is played with usual chess equipment on a board inspired by an arch-window. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Wizard of Oz Octal Chess. Based on Baum book and 1939 film. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Wormhole Chess. When a piece leaves a square, it `folds' together. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Yapsan's Spherical Chess. Play this early adaptation of Chess to a spherical board on Game Courier.
Zero Relay Chess. Pieces can occcupy the same square and then relay their powers to each other. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Zone X
. Chess with a special central Zone, a new piece, and new moves.
Zone X. Chess with a special central Zone, a new piece, and new moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Zone X. Chess with a special central Zone, a new piece, and new moves.