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Week ending Feb 11, 2023

1. Expansion chess. Get points per each your piece on other half of board to win. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rechefiltr is Fire.
2. Horizons. Game with 5 new pieces on 12x12 board. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Rechefiltr is Fire.
3. ArchMage Chess. 10x10 30v30 Fantasy Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Cyrus Arturas.
4. Orthodia. Break your orthogonal and diagonal patterns! (Two versions). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rechefiltr is Fire.
5. The Custom Crushers. A 'build it yourself' Chess with Different Armies army inspired by the Corps from 12 Augmenters Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andrew L Smith.
6. VERO Chess. Standard chess with a twist. By RICHARD BIELE.

Week ending Feb 04, 2023

1. Riftwalker Chess. A 4 dimensional game on a 3x3x3x3 board. (3x(3x(3x3)), Cells: 81) By Nick Fletcher.

Week ending Jan 28, 2023

1. Modern Chess. Fixed author's surname. (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Gabriel Vicente Maura.
2. PyChess. A free, open-source chess server designed to play several chess variants. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho.
3. Desert Pub Chess. A game where Desert Wazirs & Desert Ferz capture by jumping. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.

Week ending Jan 21, 2023

1. Chess Variants Query. "Jocly" added to "Type" menu. By (zzo38) A. Black.

Week ending Jan 14, 2023

1. Siege. Missing description (10x8, Cells: 72) By Glenn Nicholls.

Week ending Jan 07, 2023

1. Duck Chess. A Duck that must be moved by both players can block your moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.

Week ending Dec 31, 2022

1. Tamerlane II. Updated game description. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending Dec 17, 2022

1. Chess. The most popular of Chess variants, Chess itself. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho.

Week ending Dec 10, 2022

1. Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves. By H. G. Muller.
2. Elkrider Chess. Elkrider plus regular pieces. The Elkrider moves like a Nightrider if standing on white squares, otherwise it moves like a Rook. By M Winther.
3. Elk Chess. The double-barrelled Elk moves differently depending on square colour. By M Winther.
4. Variants playable against the diagram's AI. Index of variants that can be played against the interactive diagram. By H. G. Muller.
5. Bovine Chess. chess variant to illustrate new alternative notation for fairy pieces. By sam tenka.
6. Dynasty Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ben M Reiniger.
7. Dream Chess 47. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image. (7x7, Cells: 47) By Charles Gilman.
8. Dream Chess 46. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image. (8x8, Cells: 46) By Charles Gilman.
9. Expanded Chess. An attempt at a logical expansion of Chess to a 10x10 board. By Daniel Zacharias.
10. Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced. By Daniel Zacharias.
11. Epic Chess. Massive attack chess on a board 10x10. By Вадря Покштя.
12. Dromedary Chess. Pieces adjacent to the King can leap like a Dromedary (Camel). By M Winther.
13. Douglas Modern chess. A chess variant with a more interesting start position, leading to more action. By Ian Douglas.
14. Doublecannon-Chess (8x10). A big-board variant featuring the amazing new piece, the Doublecannon (Zillions file downloadable). By M Winther.
15. Doublecannon Chess. Introducing the Doublecannon piece, a strong cannon relative with breathtaking tactical capabilities (Zillions file exists). By M Winther.
16. Doublebarrel Chess. Changed to 8x8 board. An interesting method of introducing an extra piece in the standard setup. By M Winther.
17. Clear of knights chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
18. 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) By Charles Daniel.
19. Crouching Stepper, Hidden Rider. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image. (9x10, Cells: 90) By Charles Gilman.

Week ending Dec 03, 2022

1. Dipole Chess. Removed the modest label from it. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rich Hutnik.
2. Displacement Chess 2. The most logical step for the evolution of standard Chess: flexible castling and interchange of king and queen for one side. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Charles Daniel.
3. Gigachess II. 25 different pieces on a 14 x 14 board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
4. Crooked Board Chess. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image. (8x12, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
5. Dimachaer Chess. Introducing the Dimachaer, a bifurcation piece that always lands on the diagonal second leg (zrf available). By M Winther.
6. Diagonal pawn chess. Pawns always move diagonally, whether capturing or not. By Joel .
7. The Demon Game. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By Larry L. Smith.
8. Crossrook Chess. Introducing the Crossrook, a versatile piece with cannon capabilities (Zillions file downloadable). By M Winther.
9. Crossbishop_Chess (8x10). A big-board variant featuring the new Crossbishop piece, an advanced cannon relative (Zillions file downloadable). By M Winther.
10. Crossbishop Chess. Introducing the Crossbishop piece, with interesting cannon capabilities (Zillions file downloadable). By M Winther.
11. Citadel - 8 & 9 rank. Missing description (9x8, Cells: 72) By Glenn Nicholls.
12. Central Point Chess. Small 7x7 game with different pieces. By QIDb602.
13. Centaur Chess. Pieces move backwards as Knight. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
14. Shako. another kind of non-conformism and utopia. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux and Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
15. Cardinal Chess. Just like orthodox Western "Mad Queen" Chess only substituting knight-bishop compound for Mad Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Vitya Makov.
16. Capture the Scepter. Checkmate the king or capture the scepter located on opposing king's home square. Features extra-mobile sliding pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Daniel.
17. Captain's Chess. Missing description (9x8, Cells: 72) By Patrik Hedman.
18. Capped Pawns (Bemützte Bauern). Pawns have a double step once in their career. By Jörg Knappen.
19. Canoness Chess. Chess with Cannons and Canonesses (Vaos) on a differently-shaped board. (10x10, Cells: 88) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
20. Cannonrider Chess. The Cannonrider moves differently depending on square colour: on white squares as a Nightrider; else as a Chinese Cannon. By M Winther.
21. Camelrider Chess. P. Aronson's big-board variant with regular pieces and Camelriders. Author: M Winther. Inventor: Peter Aronson.
22. Wild Tamerlane Chess. A clash on a 11x11 board with pairs Queens and Eagles/Gryphons. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
23. Maasai Chess. Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including both regular and rapid Pawns. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
24. Zanzibar-S. A game in between Metamachy and Zanzibar-XL with 36 pieces per side. Preferred by some to the -XL version. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
25. Pemba. Extension of Shako, with 60 pieces. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
26. HTML vs Markdown. A style guide to using Markdown or HTML on this site. Author: Fergus Duniho.
27. Terachess II. An unrealistic summit on a very large board of 16x16 squares and 128 pieces. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
28. Fantastic XIII. A bizarre large odd chess variant with the weirdest men from Cazaux's family. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
29. Dada. Moved the Crazy game to the Rules section & added a simi-Dada playable with Standard equipment. (7x10, Cells: 70) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
30. Buccaneer Chess. changed board-size to 80 squares. By M Winther.
31. Brigadier Chess. Introducing the powerful Brigadier piece on a 68-square Gustavian board. By M Winther.
32. Brickchucking Chess. Pieces cannot move backwards, but do give check/mate backwards. Author: Ben M Reiniger. Inventor: Alan Holloway and Gary Smith.
33. Bombardier Chess. Introducing the Bombardier, combining a rook with a camelrider (zrf exists). By M Winther.
34. Bland Chess 46. Orthogonal moves only on a board with 46 squares. (6x8, Cells: 46) Author: (zzo38) A. Black. Inventor: (zzo38) A. Black and Gary K. Gifford.
35. Chak. A modern vision of what a Mayan chess would look like. By Daniel Lee.

Week ending Nov 26, 2022

1. Bishop Knight Morph Factor. A Bishop morphs into a Knight after moving, and visa versa. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
2. Bishops Chess. Chess with two light-squared and two dark-squared Bishops on each side. By Albert Lee.
3. Bear Chess. A popular Russian game; bears leap to second perimeter. Author: Ben M Reiniger. Inventor: Mikhail Sosnovsky.
4. Battery Chess. changed the starting setup. (5x10, Cells: 46) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
5. Basic Bestiary. Corrected link. (13x12, Cells: 156) By Charles Gilman.
6. Azchess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
7. War of the Roses. Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
8. Skica. 10x10 with Ski Pieces and Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Daniel Zacharias.
9. Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: powerful double capture rook , enhanced knight, long leaping bishop. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
10. The Consuls. Chess with two Kings and Pawns that can capture as Bishop, Knight, and Rook on the enemy side. By Albert Lee.
11. Cetran Chess 2. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Carlos Cetina.
12. Aviation Chess. Legan's Aviation Chess, popular during WWI, featuring the Aviator piece (with zrf). By M Winther.
13. Asymmetric Chess. nargott. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Dmitry Eskin.
14. Ascension. 6x6 board with two Kings that promote to royal Queens. By Albert Lee.
15. ArchCourier Chess. This game is Courier Chess expert Eric Greenwood's modernization of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Eric V. Greenwood.
16. Alpaca Chess. Introducing the weak but interesting Alpaca, which hops one or two steps rookwise (with zrf). By M Winther.
17. USCF. United States Chess Federation. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho.
18. Ajax Chess. All pieces can move one square in any direction, the Mastodon leaper complements the Knight. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jose Carrillo.
19. Airplane Chess. Schmittberger's big-board variant featuring the very mobile Airplane (with zrf). By M Winther.
20. FIDE. Fédération Internationale des Échecs. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho.

Week ending Nov 19, 2022

1. Tigrey. Combination of Expanded Chess and Tiger Chess. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Daniel Zacharias.
2. Tigrey. Combination of Expanded Chess and Tiger Chess. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Daniel Zacharias.
3. Reroute66. Play this adaptation of Chess to a 66 space board with some overlapping spaces. (10x8, Cells: 66) By Fergus Duniho.
4. Reroute66. A simpler game using the same board as Gerd Degens' Chess66. (10x8, Cells: 66) By Fergus Duniho.

Week ending Nov 12, 2022

1. Mansindam. A variant that combines 'drop' rule and strong pieces, and there is no draw. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Daphne Snowmoon.

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