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External Link: Ludii Portal

The Ludii Portal is the home of the Ludii General Game System, which is designed to play not just chess variants, but other board games, card games, dice games, mathematical games, etc. It is part of the ERC-funded Digital Ludeme project. In order to cover such a wide array of games, Ludii uses structured sets of ludemes (.lud files), which are units of game related information that describe concepts related to the game rules or equipment.

The Ludii Player comes with various AIs and services, but if you can't download the app, or just don't want to, Ludii supports playing the games that are currently hosted directly their site. Some services may still be in development though.

The chess variants featured by Ludii include, but are not limited to:

Chaturanga

  • Shatranj
  • Makruk (Thai Chess)
  • Sittuyin (Burmese Chess)
  • Ouk Chatrang (Cambodian Chess)
 Chess
  • Atomic Chess
  • Grande Acedrex
  • Glinski's Hexagonal Chess
  • McCooey's Hexagonal Chess

Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)

  • Manzhouqi (Manchu Chess)
  • Mini Xiangqi
  • Qi Guo Xiangqi
  • Xiang Hex
  • Janggi (Korean Chess)

Shogi (Japanese Chess)

  • Hasami Shogi
  • Yonin Shogi
  • Mini Shogi
  • Incorrect/Incomplete Rulesets
    • Tenjiku Shogi
    • Taikyoku Shogi

External Link: https://ludii.games/

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Author: A. M. DeWitt.

Last revised by A. M. DeWitt.


Web page created: 2023-03-18. Web page last updated: 2023-03-18