Query Results for
SELECT * FROM `Item` LEFT JOIN `IndexEntry` USING (ItemID) WHERE `IsHidden` = 0 AND `Item`.`IsDeleted` = 0 AND `YearInvented` >= '1998' AND `YearInvented` <= '2000' AND `Language` = 'English' ORDER BY `LinkText`, `Item`.`Summary` ASC LIMIT 500 OFFSET 0
4 Armies. Four traditional armies with cardinals face off on the corners. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Patrick Riley.
Alekhine Chess. Named in honor of Alexander Alekhine, World Chess Champion 1927-1935, 1937-1946. By Michael Wortley Nolan.
- Bank Chess
. Put your assets on the bank for later use! 6 Variants. Author: Karl Scherer. Inventor: Karl Scherer and Denis van Straten.
- Bank Chess. Regular Chess only Drops come from Pocketings. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
Bedlam. A hybrid of Metamorphin' Fusion Chess and Chessgi. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
- Bedlam. Play this hybrid of Fusion Chess, Metamorph Chess, and Chessgi. By Fergus Duniho.
- Besiege Chess. Each side has two sets of armies, the black ones are in the middle and whites on top and bottom. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Besiege Chess. Double height chess board, where black is surrounded by white. (8x16, Cells: 128) By Köksal Karakus.
- Black Hole Chess. Game with missing center and two extra spaces just behind the kings. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
Black Hole Chess. Pieces moved to the center four squares of the board fall into your hand. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
- Bomberman Chess. Two "bombs" and a "defuser" spice up this 10 x 8 game. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Bushi Shogi. Extremely small shogi variant played with cube pieces. Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Georg Dunkel.
- Bushi shogi. Shogi variant on a two-square board! Bushi means Samurai. By Georg Dunkel.
- Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. By Fergus Duniho.
Cavalier Chess. Play Cavalier Chess with Jocly. By Fergus Duniho.
- The Central Squares. 3d chess variant where all three levels share their central squares. (3x(6x6), Cells: 100) By João Pedro Neto.
Champion. Moves one orthogonally or jumps two orthogonally or diagonally. Author: Ben Good and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Daniel Macdonald.
- Chess for Three. Traditional pieces, three players, on a triangular board. By James Killian Spratt.
- Chess on a 12 by 12 board. Doug Vogel has placed the standard 32 chess pieces in the center of a 12x12 board. Author: David Paulowich. Inventor: Doug Vogel.
Chess Variant Construction Set. Putting together a set of materials for playing several different Chess variants. Author: Fergus Duniho.
- Clockwork Orange Chess. Condition your opponent's pieces to be non-violent. By Fergus Duniho.
- Clockwork Orange Chess. Captured pieces are replaced with non-capturing counterparts. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
- Cobra Chess. Link featuring piece that occupies four squares at once, the cobra, moves like a rook but can leap over friendly pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Derick Peterson.
- Coffee Chinese Chess. A freeware Java applet for playing Chinese Chess. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Pham Hong Nguyen.
- Coherent Chess. Coherent Chess on the Game Courier. Author: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi. Inventor: Carlos Cetina.
Color Chess. Freeware program playing variant on 36 colored squares. By Maarten Bodlaender.
- Cube Chess. Chess board is a cube with 4 playable sides, each with a 4x4 grid. (4x(4x4), Cells: 64) By Robert J. Bell.
- Dark Chess variants. Possible other rules for Dark(ness) Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Dennis Merritt and Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Dennis Merritt.
- Diffusion Chess. Creative attempt by Alexander Munoz to combine Chess and Go. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Alexandre Muñiz.
- Diplomatic Chess. The Diplomat replaces the King. (8x8, Cells: 64) and Derrick Fernandez.
- Double EIGHTEEN-STONE chess. David Short combines his Double Chess with Jim Aikin's Eight-Stone Chess. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
- Echexs. Hexagonal variant for three players. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Echexs. Hexagonal variant for three or six players. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Eight-Stone Chess. Players can move neutral stones as well as pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
- Elevator. Three-dimensional chess variant with moving elevators and walking, vaulting and flying pieces. (4x(8x8), Cells: 192) By Ben Good.
- Elevator. Three-dimensional chess variant with moving elevators and walking, vaulting and flying pieces. Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Ben Good.
- Eric's Great Chess. Eric Greenwood shortens by two rows the familiar ancient Great Chess board. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Euchess. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- Four Handed Roman Chess. 4 player chess variant with additional new piece. By Mark Woodall.
- Fusion Chess. Variant in which pieces may merge together or split apart. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
- Fusion Chess. Play this variant in which pieces combine and split apart. By Fergus Duniho.
- Ganymede Chess. Mark Hedden's idea for "a large chess variant with many weird pieces...which wouldn't seem too different from orthodox chess". Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Mark Hedden.
- 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. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
A Glossary of Basic Chess Variant Terms. Missing description Author: John William Brown and The Chess Variant Pages.
- Gothic Chess. Play this variation of Capablanca's Chess on Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Ed Trice.
- Gothic Chess. A 10x8 variant using the same rules and equipment as Capablanca's Chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Ed Trice.
- Grand Cavalier Chess. Play Grand Cavalier Chess with Jocly. By Fergus Duniho.
- Grand Cavalier Chess. The decimal version of Cavalier Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Fergus Duniho.
- Gufuu Shogi. Tiny variant on a 2x3 board with four pieces. By Georg Dunkel.
Guide des échecs exotiques et insolites. French book describing many variants of chess. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Hammer Chess. FIDE but with gnus instead of knights, cardinals instead of bishops and enhanced pawns. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
- Hex Shogi 41. Hexagonal shogivariant on board with 41 spaces. By Fergus Duniho.
- Hex Shogi 91. A hexagonal Shogi variant on a 91-space board. By Fergus Duniho.
- Hostage Chess. Pieces taken are
held hostage and can be exchanged against other pieces and then dropped. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) By John Leslie.
- Hydra Chess . Captured pieces return. Regrown pieces will be of lesser value. By Karl Scherer.
- Imperial Chess. Large variant with new pieces and victory by capture of royal pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) By James Killian Spratt.
- Imperial Chess. Play this large variant with new pieces and victory by capture of royal pieces! Author: Tony Quintanilla and James Killian Spratt. Inventor: James Killian Spratt.
- Jester Chess. Featuring pieces that mimic last piece moved, archers that can either capture OR move. quadrapawns, and murray lions. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Thomas Havel.
- Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10. By Peter Aronson.
Jupiter (Revised). Missing description (16x16, Cells: 256) By Adrian King.
- Karma Chess . A piece that has captured an opponent's piece is turned into one of better quality. By Karl Scherer.
- Ladder Chess. Non-competing 40 Square contest entry with scaling board. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
- Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. By Tony Quintanilla.
- Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. Author: John Smith. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
- Magic Carpet Chess. Each player has a magic carpet to move a non-King to any empty square on the board. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Denis van Straten and Karl Scherer.
- Mallett Chess. Play this small variant known in Zillions as Knights vs Bishops 5x4 on Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain. Inventor: Jeff Mallett.
- Metamorph Chess. Play this variant in which pieces frequently promote or demote. By Fergus Duniho.
- Millennium Chu Shogi . http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/MillenniumShogi.zip. By Yu Ren Dong.
- Modern Carrera's Chess. Play this modern version of Carrera's Chess on Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Fergus Duniho and Sam Trenholme.
- Modern Carrera's Chess. Play Modern Carrera's Chess with Jocly. Author: Fergus Duniho and The Jocly Team. Inventor: Fergus Duniho and Sam Trenholme.
- Modest Proposals - Various Authors. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Tony Paletta.
- Mouse and Elephant. Large variant of the Jungle game. Inventor: Ulrich Roth.
- Nahbi Chess. Preset for Nahbi Chess. By Uri Bruck.
- Nana-Shogi. Shogi variant on a tiny board. By Georg Dunkel.
- Napoleonic Chess. Large chess variant with the `spirit of the Armies of the Napoleonic period'. Author: John Smith. Inventor: Tom Hartley.
- Perfect 12. 12 different kinds of pieces on a 12 x 12 board: Is 12 "more perfect" than 10? Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Perfect Chess. Like Tutti Frutti Chess but with a different array. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Power Chess 1998. Taken pieces can reenter. (5x7, Cells: 39) By Ronald Hoekstra.
- Pre-Grandchess. Eric Greenwood realized that Christian Freeling's Great Chess could have arisen with this more normal looking position. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Eric V. Greenwood.
- Recycle Chess. You may capture your own units and replace them on the board. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Robert Huber.
- Recycle Chess. Players can capture and drop their own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Robert Huber.
- Retrochess. Play chess from the end of the game backwards. (8x8, Cells: 64) By João Pedro Neto and Ralph Betza.
- River Chess . Get one of your pieces to the other side of the board. By Karl Scherer.
- River Chess. Win by getting a piece to the opposite side. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
- Rollerball. Play this game based on a science fiction sport on Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. (7x7, Cells: 40) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Scirocco. Play this decimal variant with several weak fairy pieces on Jocly. Author: H. G. Muller. Inventor: Adrian King.
- Scirocco (revised) . On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces. By Adrian King.
- Scirocco (revised). On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Adrian King.
- Sentai Chess. Chess variant inspired by Power Rangers; precursor to Fusion Chess. By Fergus Duniho.
- Shahrady. Chess with "passes". (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Вадря Покштя. Inventor: Victor Anatolyevich Kupchenko.
- Sissa Chess. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- Superchess by Lim Ther Peng. Information on a book on a large chess variant. Inventor: Lim Ther Peng.
- Symmetric Sissa. Variant on 9 by 9 board with symmetric setup and two Sissa's (generalized Knight-like sliders). (9x9, Cells: 81) By Carlos Cetina.
- Symmetric Sissa. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- Tamerlane II. Cazaux's modern take on Tamerlane Chess. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Three Player Hex Shogi 91. a hexagonal Shogi variant for three players. (Cells: 91) By Fergus Duniho.
- Traitor Chess. Some of your pieces are traitors and can suddenly be controlled by your opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: João Pedro Neto and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: João Pedro Neto.
- Typhoon (Revised) . Missing description By Adrian King.
- Typhoon (Revised). Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) By Adrian King.
- Unicorn Chess. Unicorn Chess with one queen, two cardinalriders and two marshalls. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Paulowich.
- Vortex Chess. Similar to Warp Point Chess only with "portals" that are more dynamic and split between the two players... Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Robert LeRoy.
- Wild Tamerlane. Play this modern version of Tamerlane Chess on Jocly. Author: Jérôme Choain and Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Wild Tamerlane Chess. Game Courier Preset to play Wild Tamerlane Chess, a fury on 11x11 board. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Wild Tamerlane Chess. A clash on a 11x11 board with pairs Queens and Eagles/Gryphons. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Wormhole Chess. When a piece leaves a square, it `folds' together. By Fergus Duniho.
- XYMYX. Players make their moves at the same time. (8x8, Cells: 64) Inventor: Javier Ignacio Lizarzaburu.
- XYMYX. Link to site where you can play this game! Inventor: Javier Ignacio Lizarzaburu.
- Zillions of Games. It can play an endless variety of abstract board games, and we have a large collection of Chess variants you can play on it. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler.