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A

1. Antarctic Chess or Predators and Penguins . Missing description
2. Australian Football Chess. Game based on Australian Rules Football and Chess.

B

1. Back-to-Back Chess . Both sides start "Back-to-Back", seperated by an uncrossable line on a specially-shaped 100 square board.
2. Border Wars . Game played on the 42 edges of a grid, with elements of Shogi and XiangQi.
3. Border Wars II . Game played on line edges with Shogi-like aspects.
4. Bottleneck Chess . Most pieces start the game locked up in two bottleneck parts of the board.
5. The Bridge41 . 41 square board with bridge in the middle.

C

1. Chesquerque . Variant played on a quadruple Alquerque board.
2. Chess 68 . 8 x 8 board with 4 extra corner squares, two extra piece types.
3. Chess on a Board with 37 Squares . Game with full Chess arrays minus a Pawn on a 37 square board without any corners.
4. Chess on a Soccer Ball . Chess played on the 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons of a soccer ball.
5. Chess37 . A chess variant on a board with 37 squares where pieces outside of the center 9 squares move like Kings.
6. Chessopoly . Board with a hole in the middle where pawns move clockwise.
7. Circular Perspective Chess . Pieces must travel through a central point to get to the opponent's side of the board.
8. Clash of Command . Chesslike game with pieces that change and leave behind other pieces on special board.
9. Crazy 38's . On strange board with 38 squares.
10. Cross Chess . Game played on a cross-shaped board.
11. Cube+ . Three dimensional chess variant with 38 squares.

D

1. Delta88 Chess . Missing description
2. Diagonal Oblong Chess . The board is an oblong on diagonal direction. By Shi Ji.
3. Diamond Chess 306. A large variant inspired by Tony Paletta's PARACHESS and Fergus Duniho's ASSIMILATION FUSION CHESS.
4. Dino-Czars . Battle between rival dinosaurs on a board of 42 triangles, where facing counts.
5. Dollar Chess . Almost 1-Dimensional Variant on a Dollar sign-shaped board.
6. Double Diamond . Irregular board with diagonal orientation.
7. Dual Chess . A more Chess-like variant featuring the Marshall and the Cardinal.
8. Durerschess . Dürer's Chess is played on a tiling of tessellating pentagons and diamonds, first described by Albrecht Dürer in 1525.

F

1. Fanorona Chess . Variant played on a Fanorona board with capture by approach and by withdrawal.
2. Fusion Diamond 41 . A Fusion Chess variant played on a diamond shaped board of 41 squares.

G

1. Geodesic Chess. Played on a spherical grid of hexagons and pentagons.

H

1. Hans 38 Gift Chess . Eric Greenwood's chess on a board with 38 squares.
2. Hitchhiker Chess . Get your Hitchhiker to the Restaurant at the other End of the Board; inspired by Douglas Adams' books.
3. Hopgi . Small-board variant of Chessgi with an L-shaped board, linked pairs of Kings, where all pieces can move like a Mao-hoppers.
4. Horus . Game with Royal Falcons where all pieces start off board and most captures return pieces to owner's hand.

J

1. Javelin Chess . Pieces backed up by an extra row of single-capture Spearmen.

K

1. Klin Zha . Chesslike game played by Klingons from Star Trek on triangular board.
2. Klin Zha . Chesslike game played by Klingons from Star Trek on triangular board.
3. Klin Zha 3D . A three dimensional form of Klin Zha.

L

1. Ladder Chess . Chess variant on a `skewed' board with 40 squares.
2. Leap Chess . Game with manditory captures and other Checkers-like elements on a board of 44 squares.
3. Legan's Fortress Chess . On an `I` shaped board.
4. Lemniscate Chess . Chess played on a Lemniscate board (in the shape of an infinity symbol).

M

1. Matrix Chess . Chess played on a board of tessellating pentagons and diamonds.
2. Med Chess . Diagonal board game with a mix of traditional, modern and Shogi pieces.
3. Mercurial Chess . A variant on 42 squares with a satallite board and the rescure of captured pieces.
4. Mini Slanted Escalator Chess . Chess on smaller asymmetric board.

N

1. Narnia Chess . Chess, played on both the outside and inside of a social ball, with the Pentagons as "gateways" between the two.

P

1. Palace Ninja Guards . A pair of short-range diagonal leapers and four extra squares are added to the standard chessboard and pieces.
2. Parachess . Chess on a rhombus-tiled board.
3. Penturanga . contains rule file and 2 piece sets.
4. Pool Chess . Queens and Bishops bounce 90 degrees off the board edge.
5. Prisoner's Escape . Free your Prisoner by getting it to an unattacked square -- a small board version of Anticheckmate Chess.

Q

1. Quad-Square Chess . Chess on a board of 38 squares, of which six have size two by two.

R

1. Ramayana Chess . Chess variant inspired by the Ramayana epic.
2. Romanchenko's chess . Game on a Z-shaped board to inspire new thinking.
3. Rotorblades Fusion Chess . A cross between my own Rotorblades Chess and Fergus Duniho's Assimilation Fusion Chess, with a few extra features.
4. Royal Guard Chess . Royal Guards help defend King and all pieces can promote.

S

1. Sankaku Shogi . Small Shogi variant played on a board of 44 triangles with no drops and a teleporting Emperor.
2. Shatra . Old game from the Altai from Russia, on special shaped board with draughts-like capture.
3. Slanted Escalator Chess . Chess on an asymmetric board with interesting connectivity.
4. Snake Chess . A variant played on a 2 by 12 cyclindrical board.
5. Spacious Torus Chess . Chess on a toroidal board, using Ralph Betza's spacious pieces.
6. Step and Circle TrigChess . contains rules file with 2 boards and 2 piece sets.
7. Straights . Chess-like Naval Battle game from the end of the 19th Century.
8. String Chess. A one-dimensional variant with a fairy theme.
9. Subway Chess . In a turn, player moves first middle subway part of board and then a piece.
10. Symmetrical Chess Collection. Collection of several large symmetric chess variants with only line pieces.

T

1. Tape Chess . Tape Chess and other almost one-dimensional chess variants.
2. Templar Chess . Features the unorthodox Templar on a board with eight extra squares.
3. Thronschach . A game on 42-squares with throne squares, and an interesting mix of pieces.
4. Topologies Chess . Chess on a Cylindrical board, on a Toroidal Board, on a Mobius Strip and on a Klein Bottle.
5. Torus Chess . Large chess variant on torus shaped board.
6. Trubix-43 . Unique piece and lines of movement on an hourglass board.

U

1. Ultra Slanted Escalator Chess . Game on an asymmetrical board of 84 squares with Crabs and Ultras.

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73 'Zillions of Games file' entries listed	3 'One dimensional' entries listed
3 'Three dimensional' entries listed	17 'Large board' entries listed
32 'Small board' entries listed	1 'Three or more players' entry listed
1 'Oriental' entry listed	1 'From ancient times' entry listed
1 'War game' entry listed	73 'Unorthodox shaped board' entries listed
2 'Board with hexagonal shaped cells' entries listed	3 'Circular shaped board' entries listed
7 'In a category all its own' entries listed	1 'Sold commercially' entry listed
2 'Chess combined with some other game or sport' entries listed	1 'Shogi, or Shogi-based' entry listed

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