Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.

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Enjoyable Hour Chess

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Keys "s"=save "l"=load "b"=back once

A 3-D chess variant from Texas Educational Devices, 1966, for psychological experiments. Knights move one square diagonally in any direction. Kings cannot change level. I have the fifty move rule kick in if there have been no pawn moves on the same level.

Chess Variants

These are simple illustrations rather than strong opponents.

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