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Masonic Chess. Game played on a Masonic tile board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Can someone change the page so it displays the true inventor
Hex Shogi. A new family of hexagonal Shogi variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Dekle's hex Shogi seems to define Knight's movement somewhat differently (through that maybe also due to the different tiling) and the hexes are turned differently
Caïssa Britannia. British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I wonder if German chess (with chancellor as the royal piece) would be a viable game
Shakti. On a 7 by 7 board with disappearing squares. (7x7, Cells: 49) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]On the mindsports website, the 4 corner squares are said to be untiled
Pao. Moves like rook, but must jump when taking.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Someone on wikipedia added the name Nao for a piece that moves like the Nightrider version of the Cannon. Does anyone know if this name actually was sourced from a chess variants book or was made up?
Betza Notation. A primer on the leading shorthand for describing variant piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I wonder how I can make the Crooked Vao display correctly
Mao-hopper. Moves as knight must must jump over occupied orthogonal square at first movement.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]A logical extension of this would be a version of this that only hops when capturing
Hoo Mitregi. Intermediate between Mitregi itself and Dai Mitregi. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This looks like a fun variant to play. I am going to test it soon
Bent Riders. A discussion of pieces, like the Gryphon, that take a step then move as riders.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Another idea that I have would be knight then camelrider
The opposite version and the zebra pieces. I will edit them later with the correct piece picture
Wa Shogi. Game with many different rather weak pieces, with or without drops. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]One of the weird things about this game is the fact that you can only have 2 Heavenly Horses at max, even though you need 4 to cover the whole board, probably there is some compensation for this. I also investigated the camel variant of it, this piece can only reach 1/6th of the board.
Hunterbeest. Large variant with one each of distinctive Nimrod pieces, and of similar set of oblique pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This looks like a somewhat playable variant, only the weird board size is killing it
Also, the movement diagrams are broken Rhino. A set of pieces which combine the movements of the Mao with that of the Wazir.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A weird piece idea where all wazir movements are crooked
@Aurelian Florea
This is a Rhino where all Wazir movements are crooked compared to the previous one
Raumschach. The classical variant of three-dimensional chess: 5 by 5 by 5. (5x(5x5), Cells: 125) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The description for the knight is incorrect. It should read that the knight moves tw squares in one rook wise direction and 1 in another. The piece's current description, while making the same piece as the first one on 2d boards, gives a different piece on 3d boards
Boyscout. Moves in a diagonal zigzagline.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I've had a idea lately with a vertical only version of this piece
Raven. Can move as a Rook or a Nightrider.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I am going to write a page soon about the Bishop version of this piece, which is featured in Caïssa Britannia.
Archbishop. Moves as bishop but can make reflection at side of board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I was thinking about a piece that moves like gryphon after bouncing
Bishop-Nightrider compound. Piece that moves like bishop or nightrider.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]All The Kings men mentioned Banshee. I now also discovered Jörg Knappen used it his CwdA army Fearful Fairies under that name
The name seems to be a invention by George Jelliss
Pao. Moves like rook, but must jump when taking.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I've researched and I've found Nao multiple times in the Variant Chess magazine
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There also exists a earlier version of Hex Shogi bij George R. Dekle