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44-squares chess variant design contest.. Our annual N-squares chess variant design competition.
Baroque/Ultima. Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Berolina Chess. Different moving pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Bughouse. 4 player variant where pieces taken from your opponent are given to your partner. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) (Recognized!)
- Capablanca's chess. An enlarged chess variant, proposed by Capablanca. (10x8, Cells: 80) (Recognized!)
- Chaturanga for four players.. Oldest multiplayer chess variant. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Chinese Chess. Links and rules for Chinese Chess (Xiangqi). (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!)
- Circular Chess. Chess on a round board. (16x4, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Courier Chess. A large historic variant from Medieval Europe. (12x8, Cells: 96) (Recognized!)
- Extinction chess. Win by making your opponents pieces of one type extinct. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Giveaway Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Glinski's Hexagonal Chess. Chess on a board made out of hexagons. (Cells: 91) (Recognized!)
- Grand Chess. Christian Freeling's popular large chess variant on 10 by 10 board. Rules and links. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!)
- Hexagonal chess, McCooey's. Chess on a board, made out of hexes. Variant of Dave McCooey. (Cells: 91) (Recognized!)
- Janus Chess. Variant on 10 by 8 board. (10x8, Cells: 80) (Recognized!)
- Japanese Chess. The Japanese form of Chess, in which players get to keep and replay captured pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) (Recognized!)
- Kriegspiel. With help of a referee, two players move without knowing the moves of the opponent. (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) (Recognized!)
- Los Alamos variant. Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!)
- Makruk (Thai chess). Rules and information. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Marseillais Chess. Move twice per turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Minishogi. On a 5 by 5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25) (Recognized!)
- Raumschach. The classical variant of three-dimensional chess: 5 by 5 by 5. (5x(5x5), Cells: 125) (Recognized!)
- Shatranj. The widely played Arabian predecessor of modern chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Tamerlane chess. A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj. (11x10, Cells: 112) (Recognized!)
- Tridimensional Chess (Star Trek). Three-dimensional chess from Star Trek. (7x(), Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
- Wildebeest Chess. Variant on an 10 by 11 board with extra jumping pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) (Recognized!)
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