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1. Los Alamos variant. Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!)

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1. Minishogi. On a 5 by 5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25) (Recognized!)

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1. 3d Minishogi. A variant originally devised for a contest that never materialised. (3x5x3, Cells: 45)
2. 4-Player Pothole Chess. Bulldozers and cars and other vehicles are pieces in 4-player chess variant. (7x7, Cells: 39)
3. 6 Ranks, remaining variants. Extrapolations from the Diana/Los Alamos/Haynie's Primary family of variants. (6x6)

A

1. Action Man's Chess. A small (5x6) board and simple pieces ensures lots of easy-to-understand action. (5x6, Cells: 30)
2. Afterlife Chess. A game based on Ancient Egyption mythology, played on four boards totaling 42 squares. (Cells: 42)
3. Alapo. Game with abstract pieces. Reach opponents first row on 6 by 6 board. (6x6, Cells: 36)
4. Amoeba. Small variant with 38 movable squares. (7x7, Cells: 38)
5. Amphora. Chess variant inspired by game of Stone Warriors on wine bottle shaped board with 40 squares. (Cells: 40)
6. An-Qi. Played on the squares of half a Xiangqi board but using all the pieces. (8x4, Cells: 32)
7. Apocalypse. Small variant of knights and pawns; objective is to take all pawns.
8. Arena Chess 42. A non-competing entry in the 42 Squares contest. (Cells: 42)
9. Arnhem Chess. Game on board of 38 squares. (6x7, Cells: 38)
10. Ascension. 6x6 board with two Kings that promote to royal Queens.
11. Asteryx Chess. Hexagonal chess played on an asterisk-shaped board. (Cells: 43)

B

1. Bachelor Chess. Win by mating your opponent, or marrying off your King. (7x6, Cells: 42)
2. Bachelor Nimrod. Small variant with one each of distinctive Nimrod pieces, and of Knight. (6x6, Cells: 36)
3. Battery Chess. Chess on a Battery shaped board, with lots of batteries. (5x10, Cells: 46)
4. Ben 39. Pieces move on squares and corners of board with 37 fixed and two movable squares. (Cells: 39)
5. Beryl Chess. Variant on board of 39 triangles. (Cells: 39)
6. Bingo Chess. A cross between Chess and Bingo. (Cells: 41)
7. Biparite Chess. Small chess variant with two phases. (5x7, Cells: 43)
8. Bird Shogi. Tori Shogi, or Bird Shogi. A variant of Japanese Chess on a 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49)
9. Black Holes. On 5 by 8 board with holes as pieces which also can be used for transport. (5x8, Cells: 40)
10. Blind Chess. Played on the squares of half a Xiangqi board but using all the pieces. (8x4, Cells: 32)
11. Border Wars. Game played on the 42 edges of a grid, with elements of Shogi and XiangQi. (Cells: 42)
12. Border Wars II. Game played on line edges with Shogi-like aspects. (Cells: 44)
13. Bottleneck Chess. Most pieces start the game locked up in two bottleneck parts of the board. (Cells: 41)
14. The Bridge 41. 41 square board with bridge in the middle. (5x9, Cells: 41)
15. Bushi shogi. Shogi variant on a two-square board! Bushi means Samurai.
16. By Rook Or by Crook. Chess in the round on a hexagonal board with 42 trapezoidal squares. (Cells: 42)

C

1. Caïssa. On a 7 by 7 board with disappearing squares. (7x7, Cells: 49)
2. Caliph Qi. Extension of Isis with compound colourbound pieces and overlapping royal-accessible areas. (6x9)
3. Cannons and Crabs. A variant on a 7x6 board with Crabs (improved Pawns), and Cannons (leapers). (7x6, Cells: 42)
4. Canyon Chess. Small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules. (8x8, Cells: 44)
5. Capture the Flag Chess. A translation of the classic children's game to a 42-square board. (7x6, Cells: 42)
6. Cascudo. On 44-square hexagonal board with turns consisting of cascade of moves. (Cells: 44)
7. Central Point Chess. Small 7x7 game with different pieces.
8. Chameleon. Chess variant on board of 41 colored squares, where pieces change type depending on color of square the move to. (7x7, Cells: 41)
9. Chameleon Chess. Each player has a King and 11 Chameleons whose moves are determined by the type of square they are on. (6x7, Cells: 42)
10. Chec Toe. Chec Toe is a 4x4 Chess variant played with a six sided die, incorporating uniquely designed features, such as Checkering, Cross.
11. Chennis. Kyoto-Shogi-inspired variant (with alternating piece sides), with a tennis theme.
12. Chess - The Speed Game. Chess on a 5 by 6 board. (5x6, Cells: 30)
13. 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)
14. Chess on a board with 37 squares. Game with full Chess arrays minus a Pawn on a 37 square board without any corners. (Cells: 37)
15. Chess on a Soccer Ball. Missing description (Cells: 32)
16. Chess with Different Periods. Missing description (6x6, Cells: 36)
17. Chess37. A chess variant on a board with 37 squares where pieces outside of the center 9 squares move like Kings. (Cells: 37)
18. Chesscala. Missing description (6x8, Cells: 48)
19. Chessence. Variant on a 9 x 6 board with 8 missing squares, immobile Kings, and 9 pieces whose movement depends on their spatial relation. (6x9, Cells: 46)
20. Chessence. Small variant with many possible winning conditions.
21. Chestria. Each player has 11 randomly selected pieces in this game of placement and flipping. (5x5x3, Cells: 43)
22. Chipps. Let all pieces gain a chip by moving to the other side of 4 by 8 board. (4x8, Cells: 32)
23. Chogo44. Game with pawns and kings with co-enclosure capture. (7x8, Cells: 44)
24. Chromopolis. `Almost' colorbound pieces on a cylindrical board of 40 squares. (7x6, Cells: 40)
25. Clash of Command. Chesslike game with pieces that change and leave behind other pieces on special board. (Cells: 41)
26. 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)
27. Color Chess. Chess variant on board with 39 squares with five different colors. (6x6, Cells: 36)
28. Combination Chess. Pieces give their movement capabilities to friendly pieces in their zone of influence. (Cells: 39)
29. Compact Hex Chess. 2 normal hex armies on a board reduced to sides of length 5. (9x9, Cells: 61)
30. Congo. Animals fight on 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49)
31. Convergent Chess. Attack king directly or move to its home square on board with 40 squares. (6x6, Cells: 40)
32. Courtyard. Variant on 5 by 8 board. (5x8, Cells: 40)
33. Crazy 38's. On strange board with 38 squares. (Cells: 38) (Recognized!)
34. Cube+. Three dimensional chess variant with 38 squares. (3x4x3, Cells: 38)
35. Cycle Chess. Variant on a board with 39 cells, three of which are special. (6x6, Cells: 39)

D

1. Dagger Chess. Hexagonal variant on board with 39 squares. (Cells: 39)
2. Danadazo. Game played on the 47 edges of a grid with rounded corners, borrowing elements from Tafl. (Cells: 47)
3. Dart Chess. Chess on a 6x6 board with a new piece: the Dart. (6x6, Cells: 36)
4. Dave's Example Game. This is Dave Howe's example of a user-posted game. (2x2, Cells: 4)
5. Demi chess. Chess on a 4 by 8 board. (4x8, Cells: 32)
6. Diamond Chess. Chess variant on diamond shaped board with 40 squares. (Cells: 40)
7. Diana. Chess on a 6 by 6 board. (6x6, Cells: 36)
8. Diminuendo Chess. Hexagonal variant: captured pieces are dropped in the center and diminished, not removed. (7x8, Cells: 43)
9. Dino-Czars. Battle between rival dinosaurs on a board of 42 triangles, where facing counts. (Cells: 42)
10. Diplomat Chess. Round-board variant with a Diplomat to suborn opponents. (Cells: 43)
11. Do-or-die Chazz. Pawns that can move backward and kings only on 5 by 8 board. (8x5, Cells: 40)
12. Do-or-die Chess. Chess on an 8-by-5 board. Three ranks have been removed. (8x5, Cells: 40)
13. Dodl-schach. A truly small variant. (6x4, Cells: 24)
14. Dragonfly. Drop pieces you have taken on a 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49)
15. Dream Chess 46. 46-squasre variant played from opposite corners of a FIDE board with the other corners removed. (8x8, Cells: 46)
16. Dream Chess 47. 47-square variant played from opposite corners of a 7 by 7 board with the other corners removed. (7x7, Cells: 47)
17. Duel Chess. Captured pieces are sent to a separate Duel board to see who is eliminated and who returns. (5x7x2, Cells: 43)
18. Dueling Archbishops. Chess variant on 2 by 3 board. (2x3, Cells: 6)

E

1. Elena Chess. Chess on 5 by 6 board. (5x6, Cells: 30)
2. Epsilon Eridani. 44-square version of Achernar. (9x5, Cells: 44)
3. Equestrian Chess. On diamond shaped board with reentry squares and different pieces. (Cells: 41)
4. Eric's 40-square Fiasco!. Game on 5 by 8 board with three pieces that start in reserve. (5x8, Cells: 40)
5. Espionage chess. Spy can only be captured in turn after it has moved in 41-square variant. (7x7, Cells: 41)
6. Etcetera. This variant has some elements of Chinese Chess. Also, pieces cannot capture pieces of their own type. (7x8, Cells: 56)
7. Evolution Chess. 42-square game where each player starts with 20 Knights that evolve and a King. (7x6, Cells: 42)
8. Extended Half-chess. Variant on 4 by 10 board. (4x10, Cells: 40)

F

1. Family matters chess (small). Variant on 41 square board. (Cells: 41)
2. Fanorona Chess. Variant played on a Fanorona board with capture by approach and by withdrawal. (5x9, Cells: 45)
3. Fault Line. Fault Line. (8x6, Cells: 40)
4. Feeble Los Alamos Chess. Los Alamos Chess using Feeble pieces. (6x6, Cells: 36)
5. Five-Minute Poppy Shogi. Small shogi variant on a 4 by 5 board. (4x5, Cells: 20)
6. Fleap. Pieces move as equihoppers, but become FIDE pieces after being captured. (5x9, Cells: 43)
7. Flip Chess and Flip Shogi. Pieces have two sides with different movements on board of 38 squares. (7x6, Cells: 38) (Recognized!)
8. FlipFlop. A minimalistic Chess-like game with only one type of piece.
9. Four File Chess. Variant on 4 by 10 board. (4x10, Cells: 40)
10. Free corners chess. In the corners of seven by seven board, three squares form together one field. (7x7, Cells: 41)
11. Fusion Diamond 41. A Fusion Chess variant played on a diamond shaped board of 41 squares. (Cells: 41)

G

1. Gnu. Simple game featuring the Gnu as promotee. (5x10, Cells: 50)
2. Goal Box Chess. Game on 42 squares with no King and the goal of placing pieces into 2 special squares. (5x8, Cells: 42)
3. Goatsuckers. Small modern shogi variant on 5 by 5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25)
4. Gufuu Shogi . Tiny variant on a 2x3 board with four pieces.
5. Guschess. Pieces can freely move in one of 38 areas on the board. (8x8, Cells: 38)

H

1. Hajiku Shogi. Inspired by Shogi and Chu Shogi. Pieces can both promote and demote in promotion zone.
2. Half Chess. On a 4 by 8 board without pawns. (4x8, Cells: 32)
3. Half Courier. A Pawnless variant rearranging a slightly simplified Courier back rank onto two ranks. (6x8, Cells: 48)
4. Half Shogi and Half Xiang Qi. Applying the principles of Half Chess to Oriental games. (5x9, Cells: 45)
5. Halloween Knight Court. Halloween-themed variant on a tiny board. (3x3, Cells: 9)
6. Hans 38Special Chess. On a board with 38 squares. (6x6, Cells: 38)
7. Hans 40 Gift Chess. Pieces are digits or letters and move like their form on 5 by 8 board. (5x8, Cells: 40)
8. Hans37 Chess. Chess variant for four players on a board of 37 squares. (Cells: 37)
9. Hans38 Chess. Eric Greenwood's chess on a board with 38 squares. (6x6, Cells: 38)
10. Hans38 Chess. A form of Chess with a Limited Supply of Squares; entry of the 38-challenge. (8x8, Cells: 38)
11. Haynie's Primary Chess. On 6 by 6 board without knights. (6x6, Cells: 36)
12. Heaven. Pieces trying to reach a goalfield can only move if in reach of a friendly piece. (Cells: 39)
13. Herd. Experimental variant with jumping pieces on 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49)
14. Hex Shogi 41. Hexagonal shogivariant on board with 41 squares. (Cells: 41)
15. Hex39. Hexagonal chess variant on small board with simple rules. (Cells: 39)
16. Hexapawn. Martin Gardner's miniature game of three pawns vs the pawns. (3x3, Cells: 9)
17. Hexes Chess . Link: Hexagonal Chess in 54 hexes, using orthodox pieces. Includes enhanced Pawn movement and castling. The board is elongated.&.
18. Hexes Compressed Chess . Link: This version of Hexagonal Chess has rotated cells so that the angles point up and down.
19. Hexetera. Small hexagonal variant with some elements of Chinese Chess. (Cells: 44)
20. Hibryd I. Game played on 4x4 board with a King and four Pawns each, neutral pieces, multiple forms of capture and many ways of winning. (4x4, Cells: 16)
21. Hibryd III. An exotic three-player variant played on a board of 42 hexes with multiple victory conditions. (Cells: 42)
22. Hippodrome. Solitaire game using a small board. (4x4, Cells: 16)
23. Hitchhiker Chess. Get your Hitchhiker to the Restaurant at the other End of the Board; inspired by Douglas Adams' books. (Cells: 42)
24. Hole Chess. Variant on a board of 44 squares with two holes that pieces can be dragged into. (7x10, Cells: 44)
25. Holywar. Variant with 6 by 6 board with four additional corner squares. (6x6, Cells: 40)
26. Hopgi. Small-board variant of Chessgi with an L-shaped board, linked pairs of Kings, where all pieces can move like a Mao-hoppers. (7x7, Cells: 43)
27. Horus. Game with Royal Falcons where all pieces start off board and most captures return pieces to owner's hand. (7x7, Cells: 44)
28. Hourglass Chess. 38-Square board in shape of Hourglass. (7x6, Cells: 38)
29. HP-minichess. Small chess variant that could be played against a pocket calculator. (5x5, Cells: 25)

I

1. Infantry Chess. Small chess variant with short range pieces. (9x9, Cells: 43)
2. Inside-out chess. With two kings per player and squares with a square inside. (6x6, Cells: 44)
3. Interdependent Chess. A 42 square variant in which pieces borrow capturing ability from other pieces. (6x7, Cells: 42)
4. Isis and Cam. Two variants based on ancient English universities and the rivers near them. (6x8, Cells: 48)
5. Ito Shogi. Missing description (1x31, Cells: 21)

J

1. Judkin's Shogi. Small shogi variant on 6 by 6 board. (6x6, Cells: 36)
2. Just a funny board with 40 squares. A board with 40 squares without rules. (Cells: 40)

K

1. Kaos: The Game . Multiplayer game on a 7x7 board.
2. Keltic Chess. Adapted orthochess on a 43-square, fidchell-inspired board. (9x7, Cells: 43)
3. King and Queen. Variant on cross-shaped board with 39 squares. (Cells: 39)
4. Kings and Pawns. Proprietary game on 8 by 7 board with two types of pieces and no capturing. (7x8, Cells: 56)
5. Knight Court. Mate the knight with three pieces per player on a three by three board. (3x3, Cells: 9)
6. Knight-Tac-Toe. Small variant with only kings and knights where you must get three pieces in line in the center of the board. (5x5, Cells: 25)
7. Knightsbridge. 14 knights against 14 knights on a 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49)
8. Kozeriai. A 5x7 variant of Shogi. (5x7, Cells: 35)
9. Krieg. Two player game on a four-by-four board. Article. (4x4, Cells: 16)
10. Kylatori Sunset. Small variant combining replacement, custodian and coordination capture. (6x8, Cells: 48)
11. Kyoto Shogi. Modern 5x5 Shogi variant where pieces promote and unpromote with every move.

L

1. L Shaped Chess. 2 player variant with some elements of 4-player ones. (7x7, Cells: 45)
2. Ladder Chess. Chess variant on a `skewed' board with 40 squares. (Cells: 40)
3. The Last Mourning. On board with 38 squares and Jesters. (Cells: 38)
4. Leap Chess. Game with mandatory captures and other Checkers-like elements on a board of 44 squares. (6x8, Cells: 44)
5. Letter Chess. Pieces are a diagram that shows a letter and their movement capabilities. (7x7, Cells: 49)
6. Life, the Universe and Everything. 42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction. (6x7, Cells: 42)
7. Limited Square Chess. A form of Chess with a Limited Supply of Squares; entry of the 38-challenge. (8x8, Cells: 38)
8. Limiting Chess. On a 4x8 board, with the objective of capturing all the opponent's pieces. (8x4, Cells: 32)
9. Litrof. Variant on 42 squares played with stacks of Icehouse pyramids, where different color pyramids give stacks different powers. (5x8, Cells: 42)
10. Little Dragon Chess. Modern small variant of Xiangqi on board of 41 squares. (5x7, Cells: 41)
11. Little Trio. Small variant combining Chess, Shogi, and Xiang-Qi. (7x7, Cells: 49)
12. Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. (7x7, Cells: 49)
13. Los Alamos Extinction Chess With Bunkers. On 6 by 6 board with two additional 2 by 2 bunkers, and extension chess rules. (6x6x2, Cells: 44)
14. Los Alamos variant. Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!)
15. Lotus-39. Chess variant on special shaped board with 39 squares. (Cells: 39)

M

1. Magician Chess. Variant on 7 by 7 board with nine holes and magician able to move holes. (7x7, Cells: 40)
2. Med Chess. Diagonal board game with a mix of traditional, modern and Shogi pieces. (8x8, Cells: 44)
3. Mercurial Chess. A variant on 42 squares with a satallite board and the rescue of captured pieces. (6x6, Cells: 42)
4. Microshogi. Small shogi variant on a 4 by 5 board. (4x5, Cells: 20)
5. Mini Burmese Chess. Small variant of Burmese Chess. (6x6, Cells: 40)
6. Mini Fivequarters. The Fivequarters approach to 4-player variants, applied to 6x6 variants. (9x9, Cells: 45)
7. Mini four player chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 48)
8. Mini HexChess. Small hexagonal chess variant. (Cells: 37)
9. Mini Slanted Escalator Chess. Chess on smaller asymmetric board. (8x6, Cells: 44)
10. Mini Thunder Chess. A small-scale hybrid of Metamorph Chess, Fusion Chess, and Assimilation Chess. (6x7, Cells: 42)
11. Minima. johnnyluken. (6x6, Cells: 64)
12. Minishogi. On a 5 by 5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25) (Recognized!)
13. Minishogi setuper. Minishogi you can set up pieces at beginning of the game. (5x5, Cells: 25)
14. Minixiang. Xiang Qi's short-range pieces come into their own on a small board. (5x6, Cells: 30)
15. MiniXiangqi. S. Kusumoto's MiniXiangqi - Chinese Chess on a 7x7 board (with zrf).
16. More10. Chessvariant on a board with 10 squares. (2x5, Cells: 10)
17. Motorotor. Variant where two platforms slowly orbit a central board. (11x11, Cells: 43)
18. Mulligan Stew Chess. 42-Square Swapping-Mage Teleporting-Assassin Dual-Color-Bound-King Limited-Double-Move Leaping-Pawn Chess. (6x7, Cells: 42)
19. My38 Chess. Variant on board with 38 squares. (Cells: 38)

N

1. Nana-Shogi. Shogi variant on a tiny board.
2. Narnia Chess. Chess played on both the outside and inside of a soccer ball. (Cells: 52)
3. Narrow Chess. Variant on 2 by 20 board. (2x20, Cells: 40)
4. Neighbors. Try to capture the most pieces on a 42-square board completely filled with neutral pieces. (7x6, Cells: 42)
5. Neutron 45. Variant of the game Neutron on a 45-squared board. (7x7, Cells: 45)
6. Not a chess variant. Rules of a chess variant on a board with 41 squares. (7x7, Cells: 41)
7. Notchess. A family of games with Chess and Chess-Variant pieces but no King. ()

O

1. Oblique. Variant with board with 40 squares turned 45 degrees. (Cells: 40)
2. Oblong Chess 44. Variant of Oblong Chess on board with 44 squares. (4x11, Cells: 44)
3. Once More, with Deans. Subvariants of River-with-university-and-cathedral series with extra piece type.
4. The One Ring. White wants to get the Ring to the far side and destroy it. (5x8, Cells: 42)
5. Onitama. Cards decide how pieces move, perfect information with no chance beyond setup.
6. Outer Space Chess. Space-themed game with hyperspace and regular space boards. (5x8x2, Cells: 43)

P

1. Pachessi. Race and chess game on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. (7x7, Cells: 40)
2. Palace Revolution. Variant on 44 square board with Templar Knights and Squire Pawns. (7x8, Cells: 44)
3. Panal: a hexagonal chess. A double-royal piece variant on a 61-hex board. (Cells: 61)
4. Patricia. On a 5 by 5 board, with drops and changing pieces. (5x5, Cells: 25)
5. Pawn Less Chess. New pieces, no pawns, and 20 squares removed from the 8 by 8 board. (8x8, Cells: 44)
6. Peng Hu rules. Rules for half-board Xiangqi. (8x4, Cells: 32)
7. Petty Chess. Chess on a 5 by 6 board. (5x6, Cells: 30)
8. Philosophers Chess. Chess variant on two small boards with usual and `philosophical' pieces. (6x6, Cells: 40)
9. Pink Panther Chess. Possess the Pink Panther diamond give your piece extra moves. (7x7, Cells: 49)
10. Pirate Chess. Two or three pirates fight on a board with 39 triangles. (Cells: 39)
11. PiRaTeKnIcS. Pirates on ships fight each other in 44-squares chess variant. (6x8, Cells: 44)
12. Pirates-Henge-Ho. Small variant with pirates theme. (5x7, Cells: 38)
13. Pocket Polypiece Chess 43. Game with off-board pocket where all pieces of a type change when one piece of a type is moved normally. (7x6, Cells: 43)
14. Pompeii Chess. Variant on board with 25 squares. (7x7, Cells: 25)
15. Power Chess 1998. Taken pieces can reenter. (5x7, Cells: 39)
16. Prison Break. Starring the sliding pawns, the Ninja Guards, the Knight, the Bird, the King and introducing the captivating Ice Queen! (6x8, Cells: 46)
17. Prisoner's Escape. Free your Prisoner by getting it to an unattacked square -- a small board version of Anticheckmate Chess. (7x8, Cells: 44)
18. Puzzle Shatranj. Shatranj on a 15 puzzle. (8x8, Cells: 60)

Q

1. Quad-Square Chess. Chess on a board of 38 squares, of which six have size two by two. (7x8, Cells: 38)
2. Quake Chess. Earthquakes over the board. (8x6, Cells: 46)
3. Quarterboard. Small variant with no pawns and piece drops, inspired by Chess and Shogi.
4. Quick Chess. Chess on a 5 by 6 board. (5x6, Cells: 30)

R

1. Re. Drop pieces on a 5 by 5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25)
2. Reality check. Remember the opposite site of flippable pieces. (Cells: 39)
3. Redistribution 3d Chess. Relatively small 3d variant with short-range pieces including Pasha family. (4x6x4, Cells: 96)
4. Reenterent Chess. There is one additional square where taken pieces can wait to reenter 5 by 8 main area. (5x8, Cells: 41)
5. 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)
6. Robber-Baron. Which of the seven robbers is the robber-baron? (7x7, Cells: 39)
7. Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. (7x7, Cells: 40)
8. Rook Mania. Game where all pieces have different sorts of Rook-like moves. (7x7, Cells: 43)
9. The Royal Standard. Pieces can only move when near a standard-bearer piece on board with 38 squares. (7x6, Cells: 38)

S

1. Saisho shogi. Game with one dice-shaped shared piece.
2. Sankaku Shogi. Small Shogi variant played on a board of 44 triangles with no drops and a teleporting Emperor. (7x8, Cells: 44)
3. Semedo. Missing description (5x8, Cells: 40)
4. SerPent Chess 50. Pentagonal cells form hexagonal blocks in two ways. (Cells: 50)
5. Shakti. On a 7 by 7 board with disappearing squares. (7x7, Cells: 49)
6. Shifting Sands Chess. Special squares -- which can be dropped and moved -- change the types of pieces that land on them. (6x7, Cells: 42)
7. Shogi 59. Shogi on half of a 9x12 board. (9x13, Cells: 59)
8. Sideways Hourglass chess. Small variant on 6 by 7 board with two squares punched out. (7x6, Cells: 40)
9. Sigma 4 Shogi. Missing description (7x7, Cells: 49)
10. A Silly 42-Squares Board. A Silly 42-squares board with a little Unirexial variant you can play on it. (Cells: 42)
11. Slide-Chess. Variant on 44 squares with moving cages. (7x8, Cells: 44)
12. Small Spherical Chess. Board of form of sphere, with 38 squares. (Cells: 38)
13. Small-Deacon Chess. Missing description (7x7, Cells: 49)
14. Smallest possible 2D and 3D chess. Missing description (2x2x2, Cells: 4)
15. Smegi. Arrows on squares show where pieces can go - crossover between Smess and Shogi. (5x8, Cells: 40)
16. Snake Chess. A variant played on a 2 by 12 cyclindrical board. (2x12, Cells: 24)
17. Snark Hunt. Variant with unequal armies on board with 41 squares, inspired by a poem of Lewis Carroll's. (6x8, Cells: 41)
18. SpaceWarp44. 44 square board has warp squares that allow a teleport to another warpsquare. (5x9, Cells: 44)
19. Spartan Chess 28. Missing description (4x7, Cells: 28)
20. spIndecision Beryl. Two players fight with three armies on board formed by 39 triangles. (Cells: 39)
21. String Chess. A one-dimensional variant with a fairy theme. (1x24, Cells: 24)
22. Subway Chess. In a turn, player moves first middle subway part of board and then a piece. (7x7, Cells: 41)
23. Suicide Chess. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/suicide-chess-free/b89dc1a3-2d23-410d-b580-aaaff54d81f5.
24. Symmetron! 44. Most pieces move orthogonally or diagonally according to situation. (7x6, Cells: 44)

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1. Take Over Chess. Jump across pieces to take them over from your opponent. (7x7, Cells: 41)
2. Tapestry Chess. Chess on a four-color 6x6 board, with a 5 square control board. (6x6, Cells: 41)
3. Test Minichess. Chess on a 6x6 board. (6x6, Cells: 36)
4. Thirty-Nine Squares Chess. Variant on board with 39 squares with special drop and promotion rules. (Cells: 39)
5. Thronschach. A game on 42-squares with throne squares, and an interesting mix of pieces. (5x8, Cells: 42)
6. Tic-Tac-check. Get four chesspieces in a row on a 4 by 4 board. (4x4, Cells: 16)
7. Tishai. Played on a 7x7 board with 2 sideboards. (7x7, Cells: 49)
8. Tori Shogi. A variant of Japanese Chess on a 7 by 7 board. (Link to Roger Hare's shogi site.).
9. Tori Shogi. Tori Shogi, or Bird Shogi. A variant of Japanese Chess on a 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49)
10. Toto40. Staircase board with fighting line in the middle, inspired by Totolospi game of Hopi Indians. (Cells: 40)
11. Toystore Chess. A problem-like Chess variant on a 5x5 board with free placement. (5x5, Cells: 25)
12. Traffic Jam. Pieces try to reach other side of narrow board. (14x3, Cells: 40)
13. Triana. 3-player version of 6x6 games. (9x9, Cells: 54)
14. Trissa. A Rococo-inspired hexagonal variant for three players with an unusual flavor. (10x10, Cells: 55)
15. Trubix. Chess variant on board with 41 squares. (Cells: 41)
16. Trubix-43. Unique piece and lines of movement on an hourglass board. (5x11, Cells: 43)
17. Two Pipe Chess. Setup on 41-squares board looks like two tobacco pipes. (9x5, Cells: 41)

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1. Voidrider Chess. A 43 square variant with movable spaces. (7x9, Cells: 43)

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1. The Weak Square of the Jumping King. Kings start jumping around, dropping the other pieces on a board with 38 squares. (6x6, Cells: 38)
2. Whale Shogi. Shogi variant. (6x6, Cells: 36)
3. Wild Jokers. 7 by 7 board with 8 pits and various pieces, including jokers that can make successive jumps across pits. (7x7, Cells: 41)
4. Wiz-42. Game on 42-squares with Wizards that can make multiple moves when connected. (5x8, Cells: 42)
5. Wormhole Xiang Qi. A small Xiang Qi variant with 2 special spaces. (7x7, Cells: 47)

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1. Xiangqi 42. A minature version of Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) on 42 squares. (7x6, Cells: 42)

Z

1. Ziggurat. Mesopotamian-themed variant on a 43-square board. (13x5, Cells: 43)

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