Authors Starting with G

Silvia M. G. Rodrigues [info] xodul. Ten different pieces, with some Shogi and Xiangqi inspirations.
Richard Gadsden [info] Gadsden's Toroidal Chess. Edges of the board are considered to be adjacent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
John Gallez [info] Contact Chess. Connecting pieces enhances movement, attack and defense. Powerful pawns and kings.
Armis Game [info] Armis. 100 square board with 15 piece types.
Doug Garand [info] Assideum. Game on 8 by 8 board with differenly moving pieces.
Jeremy Gardiner [info] Capture-the-King. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Monte Carlo Chess. Random movement variant. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Onno Garms [info] Troja. Commercially sold game where pieces can be stacked. (8x8, Cells: 64)
John Garwood [info] Combat Chess II. A wargame-like chess variant. (8x8, Cells: 64) Scrabble Battle Chess. Complicated game that uses a scrabble set, dice, playing cards with magic spells, pieces that move queenlike.
Topher Gayle [info] Chicken Chess. Combines Losing and Benedict Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Full House. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Kevin Geiselman [info] Klin Zha: A Klingon . The Authorized Klin Zha Homepage.
Peter Gelman [info] Monkey King Chess. Monkey King fights Goblin King on 44 squares board in game with oriental influences. (5x8, Cells: 44) Earnest, James: An Interview. Creator of Tishai.
Prussia General [info] Hidden Random Chess. This is a two-player game that incorporates the element of chance in chess. StrataChess v1.0. separate Strategic and Tactical gameplay. 2-6 players. Element of Chance. Terrain. Build your own armies.
Ralf `Panther` Gering [info] What is wrong with Shou Dou Qi?. Comments on the rules of Shou Dou Qi - the Animal Game.
Travis Geyer [info] Tao's Chess. Chess variant where as you move across a line, the pieces reverse roles.
Jeff Gibson [info] Fighting Chess. A reform to Chess that eliminates stalemate and strengthens some of the pieces.
Gary K. Gifford [info] The Bermuda Chess Angle. Pieces can vanish in a central grid (The Bermuda Chess Angle) depending on dice-determined coordinates. (10x10, Cells: 100) Binary 1010. Pieces alternate with their binary counterpart in regard to turning off and on. (10x10, Cells: 100) Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
Herb Gilliland [info] Rolling Chess. A game played with dice, where movement causes rolling and rolling changes piece identity. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Charles Gilman [info] 12 Sharp Chess. 4-player versions of 10-or-more-file variants on cross-shaped boards. (12x12, Cells: 108) 125 Percent Shogi and 125 Percent Xiang Qi. 4-player versions of Oriental variants on cross-shaped boards. (15x15, Cells: 125) 16 Seasons Chess. 4-player variant combining FIDE and Leap Chess pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) , more...
Bruce R. Gilson [info] Free Choice Chess. Large variant where players choose and deploy their own forces.
Ed Ginsberg [info] Super Chess III . Big proprietary game with archers and cyclopses. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Alberto Giusti [info] Shuuro. Large variant where you build your own army. (12x12, Cells: 144)
Paul Glover [info] 3D version of checkers, chess and shogi. 3D version of checkers, chess and shogi.
John Gollon [info] Bird's Chess. Chess variant on 10 by 8 board from 19th century England. (10x8, Cells: 80) Turkish Great Chess II. Gollon's large historical variant. (10x10, Cells: 100) Turkish Great Chess III. John Gollon's third of six variations on Great Chess. (12x12, Cells: 144) , more...
Dmitriy Golub [info] chexx (Golub). Another variant of hexagonal chess. (Cells: 63)
Florencio Gonzalez [info] Knights Chess. Queen, Rook and Bishop may also jump as a knight.
Ben Good [info] Diagram Maker. Zillions of Games file for creating chess problem diagrams. Ben 39. Pieces move on squares and corners of board with 37 fixed and two movable squares. (Cells: 39) Chess with Ultima, Rococo and Supremo Pieces. A series of variants with the Orthochess array transplanted to a 10x10 board and various exotic pieces added. (10x10, Cells: 100) , more...
Richard Goode [info] The 3D Chess Webpage. An improved version of Raumschach. (Link.).
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] 2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!! 45 or 46 Cell Contest - 2007 Design Contest. Quick contest for 45 or 46 cells. Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2007.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Denver Chess Club Chigorin Chess Tournament. I'm sponsoring my first local chess variants tournament. 2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces that automatically flip into wyrd and not so strange counterparts. (10x8, Cells: 68) Cardinal Chess. Just like orthodox Western "Mad Queen" Chess only substituting knight-bishop compound for Mad Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidal board using three warp lines with 8 corners tied together. (8x8, Cells: 64) Ibu Ibu Chess. Introduces the concept of a King's entourage, making King powerful and protected. (8x8, Cells: 64) Optimized Chess - 8H x 10W. Missing description
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] 007 Chess. 007 Chess involves three move per turn, including one of your opponent's pieces. 2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] 4 Armies. Four traditional armies with cardinals face off on the corners. 4 x 4 x 8 Tridimensional Chess. Clever 3-D variant, closer to Raumschach, but according to Gilman, solves some of Raumschach's design flaws. 65 Square Chess. FIDE chess but pretend there's another square smack dab in the middle., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] The Black Ghost. Betzan attempt to remedy White's first move advantage in FIDE by giving Black a noncapturing but capturable teleporting piece. Black Hole Chess. Game with missing center and two extra spaces just behind the kings. Blackjack Chess. Reduce the point value of your pieces to exactly 21 points and win the game. Or do it the old-fashioned way., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Cannons and Crabs. Small board, cannons (alibaba-guards) and some centralized crabs (sergeant pawns) - promotion only to cardinal or marshall...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Cannons of Chesstonia. Cannons on the sides of the board can "fire" new pieces into the game.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Capablanca Shatranj. Where Cardinal and Marshall are replaced by their moderate short range leaper counterparts. Cardinal Chess. Just like the usual Western contemporary, only replacing Mad Queen with Bishop Knight compound. Cavalry Chess. All pieces have additional knight move except knights which get camel + zebra moves.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] CDA Variant: Fighting Fizzies. Missing description
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] CDA: Demi-Rifle Army. Missing description
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] CDA: Meticulous Mashers. ...every piece very nearly matches the corresponding piece from FIDE-chess, both in value and in general characteristics. - RB.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] CDA: Pizza Kings. Experimental CDA army, submitted half in jest, with pieces whose movement imitates their shape.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] CDA: Spacious Cannoneers. Spacious pieces combine with Vao and Pao pieces for Betzan Chess with Different Armies Variant.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Center of Attention. FIDE Chess but with an additional winning condition: Move your king unchecked into a center square.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Cheskers. Fun and simple crossover between chess and checkers invented by professor Solomon W. Golomb. Chess 68. FIDE Chess with setup inspired by Omega Chess, to allow two modest new corner pieces. Chess on a Really Big Board. Game that introduced rose and knight-camel-zebra..., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Contramatic Chess. This king can walk right into check! The goal for this king is to get checkmated.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Corridor Chess. FIDE but subtracting rook pawns and setting pieces up in house in middle. Courier Chess - Modified. Fourth and Fifth Courier Chess variant modifications.... Courier de los Combinados. Variant with the most Basic Combinations of Knight, Camel, FIDE pieces, with ferzes, wazirs and guards., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Crooked Chess. Chess variant with pieces inspired by the Sissa piece. DemiChess. Weak short range pieces with less symmetry than some more familliar pieces.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] The Demon Game. Larry Smith 10 x 10 game with extra Capablanca pieces. Diffusion Chess. Creative attempt by Alexander Munoz to combine Chess and Go. Dimension X. Unusual transdimensional pieces interact with FIDE Chess., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Elven Chess. Chu Shogi Lion, Dragon Horse, Dragon King, Guard on Grand Chess type setup.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] En Passant Chess - Koksal Karakus' version. All pieces have the en passant option. Koksal Karakus version. En Passant Chess of Ingo Althofer. This is just FIDE Chess, but with board contracted by one row. Try it out. Eric's Great Chess. Eric Greenwood shortens by two rows the familiar ancient Great Chess board., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Fluid Chess. Pieces can move into (or through or out of and into again) friendly pieces ("into" up to compounds).
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Football Chess. Pieces interact with a ball and each side tries to get the ball into the opposing goal. Ganymede Chess. Mark Hedden's idea for "a large chess variant with many weird pieces...which wouldn't seem too different from orthodox chess". Gess. Combines GO with Chess: Invention of Archimedeans Mathematics Society, discussed by Ian Stewart in Scientific American., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Half Chess Pawnless. "If Chess is wine, Half Chess is brandy. ".
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Hammer Chess. FIDE but with gnus instead of knights, cardinals instead of bishops and enhanced pawns.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Hexagonal Chess with Hexagonalers. Missing description
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Hour Glass Chess. Small variant with simple pieces and hour glass shape. Hullabaloo. Fusion, fission game with drops, giant conglomerations and two types of activation. I'm a Ferz, Get Me Into There!. Inspired by title of Chas. Gilman's game, "I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here!" Object is to get your Ferz to Z5., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Lines of Relay. The addition of a piece - the "Lore Apprentice" adapted from the Querquisite. "LoR(e)" stands for Lines of Relay.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Logical Followup to Duke of Rutland Chess and Some Others. Derivative of The Duke of Rutland's Chess with other compound pieces. Mamra Chess with Wuss. Variant combining very strong Mamra piece with weakening Wuss piece. Mesmer Chess. Introduces a new piece, the mesmerist, which can control how opposing pieces move., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Might-Lion Chess. Orthodox Western Chess but with one knight replaced by Chu Shogi Lion.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Mimotaur Chess. Missing description Minishogi. A Minishogi association has existed, and may still exist, in Osaka. Multimove FIDE Chess. Each turn utilizes a number of points that get applied to movement.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Nachtmahr. "Study game" with several different types of nightriders.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] New Age Chess. CDA variant substitutes Pushme-Pullyu as queen, and army with crabrooks, charging knights and waffles. New Renniassance Chess. Faster Game with new pieces... Nightrider Armies. Nightriders replace rooks and nightrider compounds replace rook compounds in four variants., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Pawnless vs. Pawnful FIDE. Which side do you think will win? The one with the queen or the one with the pawns?
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Perfect 12. 12 different kinds of pieces on a 12 x 12 board: Is 12 "more perfect" than 10? Perfect Chess. Like Tutti Frutti Chess but with a different array. The Pit. A pit over which only one of the pieces may jump., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Shatranj Al-Husun - Citadel Chess. Historical variant of Shatranj.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Shatranj Kamil. Shatranj Kamil or "Perfect Chess" a historical variant combining alfils, camels rooks and ferz. Shatranjian Shogi. Ferz and wazir, dabbaba and elephant offset each other in this new Shatranj drop game. Spartan Chess 28. Small board game created as simple diversion by brilliant hexagonal chess inventor Graeme C. Neatham., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Thronschach. Immobilizer, knight-wazir, bishop-ferz, cardinal and two ways of winning, one by occupying "throne".
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Tiling Rider Chess. This game was inspired by tiles seen in many bathrooms and sidewalks. Time Travel Chessgi. One can travel backwards or forwards in time, bringing along all one's possessions. Tonight. Superstrength double moving knight pieces and king that can create squares for itself to move in limited area., more...
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Hikaru Nakamura. Current U.S. Champion is also accomplished at some variants.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Complementarity - Part I. With Short Range Project in mind, list of a highly specific set of pieces defined by simplest compounds.
Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Cupid Chess 3. Pieces trace out geometrical patterns suggested by the way they are designed.
Ulf Göransson [info] Skock. 64 pieces on an 8 x 8 board. Dice determine how far pieces can be moved. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Adam Goss [info] Chameleon Chess Redux. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Knights of the Round Table. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Tables Chess. Missing description (12x2, Cells: 24)
Bruce Grant [info] Three dimensional Chess: Kogbetliantz game. Chess on an 8 by 8 by 8 board. (8x(8x8), Cells: 512)
Mason Green [info] 10 Minute Melee. Score as many points during 10 minutes of time with regular chessset. (8x8, Cells: 64) Ladder Shogi. Shogi variant on 10 by 10 board where pieces climb the social ladder by multiple promotions. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Bob Greenwade [info] Bob Greenwade's SVG Library. A collection of SVG piece images. Icon Clearinghouse 1. A collection of chess icons for all to use in Interactive Diagrams and Game Courier setups. Icon Clearinghouse 2. Part two features dozens of animal-based icons., more...
Eric V. Greenwood [info] ArchCourier Chess. This game is Courier Chess expert Eric Greenwood's modernization of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) Courier Chess (modified). Missing description (8x12, Cells: 96) Courier-Spiel. 19th century variant of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) , more...
Lev Grigoriev [info] Board 8x8 Game Mix. Game with fairy Chess, Draughts & Lines of Action elements. (8x8, Cells: 64) Cavalry Queen Chess. Queen rides a horse and therefore it passively moves as Knight (but captures as usual). (8x8, Cells: 64) Chess on the Rope. 1d chess experimental variant with standard rules and variations. (1x21, Cells: 21) , more...
Russell Grigsby [info] Chess 121. Large chess variant with Demo Dos-program. (11x11, Cells: 121)
John Groeneman [info] Half Chess (32). On a 4 by 8 board without pawns. (4x8, Cells: 32)
James Gryphon [info] Amalgamated Chess. Incorporates some aspects of historical variants, but uses only usual equipment. (8x8, Cells: 64) Amalgamated Chess. Missing description
Jorge Guerra [info] Altair . Take a look at this sample game of Altair!
Michael Chang Gummelt [info] The Sons of Mithra. Elaborate Fantasy variant with 13 different types of pieces per side. (10x10, Cells: 100) The Sons of Mithra. Computer program for playing fantasy variant.
Mathias Guthmann [info] Chessplayers . German language Chess site. (German Language)
Michel Gutierrez [info] 3D Chess. Play 3D Chess in your browser with Jocly. Amazon Chess. Play this game in which the Queen can also move as a Knight on Jocly. Baby Chess. Play this small 5x5 variant on Jocly., more...