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"Ninth-Ray" Jetan. Missing description (5x20, Cells: 100) By donald henry.
10x10 game with some popular pieces. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 104) By Daniil Frolov.
10x8 Variants. Missing description By Jose Carrillo.
123456 Chess. Missing description Author: Nick Wolff. Inventor: (zzo38) A. Black.
2 Jewels. Larger version of Pink Panther Chess with second jewel and common Thieves. (9x10, Cells: 90) By Charles Gilman.
2 Level Guru Mahachaturaji. Enlarging the Guru Mahachatuaji board to go with the enlarged army. (2x(10x10), Cells: 200) By Charles Gilman.
2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces that automatically flip into wyrd and not so strange counterparts. (10x8, Cells: 68) By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces with Dissociative Identity Disorder. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!! By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
3 Level 4 Player Variants. Putting 4 players on a 3d board usually used for 2. (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) By Charles Gilman.
3 Strikes Chess. The first attack does not immediately remove pieces from the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
3-Player Chess I. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 75) By Bn Em.
3D Great Shatranj. a simple approach to 3D chess. By Joe Joyce.
3D Great Shatranj. A simple approach to 3D chess. (6x(6x6), Cells: 216) By Joe Joyce.
3d Magna Carta Chess. Adding Barons and Dukes to Magna Carta Chess to commemorate 8th centenary of Magna Carta. (2x(5x8), Cells: 80) By Charles Gilman.
3to2. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Stephane Burkhart.
4 Faces. 2d multiplayer variant based on a feature of Tunnelshogi. (9x9, Cells: 45) By Charles Gilman.
4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. By Kevin Pacey.
4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
4*Chess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess using sixteen 4x4 boards & 96 pieces. (4x(4x(4x4)), Cells: 256) By Kevin Pacey.
45 or 46 Cell Contest - 2007 Design Contest. Quick contest for 45 or 46 cells. Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2007. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
47 Contest Results. Missing description By John Smith.
4D Hexagonal Chess. 4D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Hyperchess4. (5x(5x(5x5)), Cells: 361) By Kevin Pacey.
4D Hexagonal Chess. 4D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Hyperchess4. By Kevin Pacey.
4D Quasi-Alice Chess. 8x8x2x2 four dimensional game with 32 pieces. (2x(2x(8x8)), Cells: 256) By Kevin Pacey.
5*4DChess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess variant played with 140 pieces. (5x(5x(5x5)), Cells: 625) By Kevin Pacey.
6 Player Complex Allegiance Chess. Missing description By Kuyan Judith.
64 triangles. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
6hess. Each piece moves 6 times before disappearing. By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
A Chaturanga Problem by Bas de Haas. Mate in two moves, following Chaturanga rules. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Bas de Haas.
Abalonian Chess. johnnyluken. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Johnny Luken.
Accessory Chess
. A drop variant with one or two external pieces per player (many to choose from). Zillions (zrf) program available. By M Winther.
Accessory Chess (with Divaricator). Drop chess with external piece. The Divaricator can capture by withdrawing in an oblique angle (+zrf). By M Winther.
Active King Chess. Each turn, one must move one's king in addition to moving other pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
Adjutant Chess. Regular chess with extended castling, and extra corner squares. Makes new strategies possible (+zrf). By M Winther.
Adjutant Chess
. Introducing the Adjutant that can slide like a queen, but on the same square colour only (with zrf). By M Winther.
Adjutant Chess (with Adjutants). The Adjutant, besides sliding on the diagnals, can slide on the orthogonals by ignoring the other colour (+zrf). By M Winther.
Aire. River variant on H-shaped board, some parts of camps further back than others. (8x12, Cells: 72) By Charles Gilman.
Ajax Bigamous Chess. Bigamy meets Ajax Orthodox Chess! (9x8, Cells: 72) By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Chess
. Missing description By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Falcon Chess. Ajax Chess on a 10x8 board with two Ajax Falcon drops. (10x8, Cells: 100) By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Falcon Chess. Ajax Chess on a 10x8 board with two Ajax Falcon drops. By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Modern Random Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Orthodox Chess. Orthodox Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers. By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Orthodox Chess. Orthodox Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Random Chess. Pseudo-Fischer Random Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax Xiangqi. The Ajax 'effect' meets Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) By Jose Carrillo.
Ajax-Capablanca Chess. Ajax-Chessmen on a 10x8 Capablanca Board! (10x8, Cells: 80) By Jose Carrillo.
Alapawn. A simplified, more chess-like version of Alapo 8x8. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Luis Bolaños Mures.
Alapo 8x8. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Luis Bolaños Mures.
Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics: Expansion Set 6. Missing description By Matthew La Vallee.
Alien and Predators Symmetric. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
All pieces of classic chesses. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
All-round King. Things you must do with the king changes during the game: normal king transfors into ani-king and others. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Alpaca Chess. An Alpaca, worth two pawns, is added to the standard piece context (with zrf). By M Winther.
Alpaca Chess
. Introducing the weak but interesting Alpaca, which hops one or two steps rookwise (with zrf). By M Winther.
Alternative Chess
. A drop variant with one single external piece per player (many to choose from). Zillions (zrf) program available. By M Winther.
AltOrth Hex Chess. Hexagonal variant using pieces moving only one way along each orthogonal. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
AltOrth with Further Piece Types. Extending the AltOrth interpretation of hex cells to further variants. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
AltOrth with Hopping and Crooked pieces. Extending the AltOrth interpretation of hex cells to further variants. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
Amalgamated Chess. Incorporates some aspects of historical variants, but uses only usual equipment. (8x8, Cells: 64) By James Gryphon.
Anemic Chess. Rule-Enforcing Preset for Jaguaribe's short-range variant. Author: Nick Wolff. Inventor: Claudio Martins Jaguaribe.
Antarctic Chess or Predators and Penguins. Penguins seek safety at the ice-pack's centre. Can the Predators stop them? (Cells: 295) By Graeme C Neatham.
Antimatter Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Claudio Martins Jaguaribe.
Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
Armamentist Race Chess. Missing description (10x12, Cells: 116) By Claudio Martins Jaguaribe.
Armie making. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Armies of Faith 1: The Dawn of Civilisation. The first in of a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (3x(9x9), Cells: 243) By Charles Gilman.
Armies of Faith 2: Later Antiquity. The second in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (5x(10x10), Cells: 245) By Charles Gilman.
Armies of Faith 3: Assimilation. The third in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (5x(), Cells: 350) By Charles Gilman.
Armies of Faith 4: Schism. The fourth in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (4x(8x8), Cells: 256) By Charles Gilman.
Armies of Faith 5: Spiritual and Temporal. The fifth in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (4x(10x8), Cells: 320) By Charles Gilman.
Armies of Faith 6: After Empire. The last in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (5x(), Cells: 370) By Charles Gilman.
Armis
. 100 square board with 15 piece types. By Armis Game.
Arrangement Chess
. The players take turns to relocate the king and the queen, thus enhancing opening ramification (with zrf). By M Winther.
Arrangement Chess. Swap king & queen before play begins. With mirrored kings and non-mirrored queens (with zrf). By M Winther.
Asylum Chess. Fire-through rooks, mad leaping (camel-move) bishops and double-capture insane ninja knights with lion-like powers. By Charles Daniel.
Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: fire-through rooks, double-capture knights, leaping bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
Asylum Chess
. Includes new game that features dual path compound pieces: the Loony Snake Rook and the Insane Snake Bishop. By Charles Daniel.
Asylum Redux
. Introducing the Loony Snake Rook and Insane Snake Bishop. Also starring the dangerous and superfast Ninja Pawns! By Charles Daniel.
Asylum Redux. Two new pieces: dual path sliding Zebra + Bishop and a dual path sliding Camel + Rook. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
Asylum Redux. Featuring dual path Zebra / Camel crooked sliders compounded with Bishop / Rook. By Charles Daniel.
Atlantean Coffee House Shatranj. Grand Hexagonal Shatranj - the short-range project goes six-sided. (13x13, Cells: 127) By Graeme C Neatham.
Atlantean Coffee House Shatranj. Grand Shatranj on a Hex board. By Graeme C Neatham.
Azchessimp
. Missing description By Namik Zade.
Azerbaijan Chess
. http://zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/79138?do=show;id=1659. By Namik Zade.
Azerbaijan Chess. http://zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/73747?do=show;id=1659. By Namik Zade.
Babylonian Chess. Captures are determined by rolling dice. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Muhammad Hidayat.
Bachelor Hunterbeest. Hunterbeest without the Queen or Gnu - to start with... (9x8, Cells: 72) By Charles Gilman.
Bachelor Nearlydouble. Applying the Nearlydouble principle to Bachelor Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Charles Gilman.
Bachelor Nimrod. Small variant with one each of distinctive Nimrod pieces, and of Knight. (6x6, Cells: 36) By Charles Gilman.
Backgammon Chess. Play backgammon and chess game together. (8x8, Cells: 88) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Backlash. Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other! By Greg Strong.
Backlash. Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other! (2x(8x8), Cells: 132) By Greg Strong.
Bandit Chess. Missing description (9x7, Cells: 63) By Patrik Hedman.
Barca. Twelve animals fight over watering holes in nice looking commercial game. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Andrew Caldwell.
Baseball Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By George William Duke.
Baseball Chess Hits & HomeRuns. Missing description By George William Duke.
Basilisk Chess
. Introducing the Basilisk cannon, with standard pieces (zrf exists). By M Winther.
Battery Chess. Battery Chess on the Game Courier. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Battery Chess. Chess on a Battery shaped board, with lots of batteries. (5x10, Cells: 46) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Battle of the Diagonals. Each player uses the three kinds of diagonal in different ways. (6x(9x9), Cells: 270) By Charles Gilman.
Battle of the Six Armies. Multiplayer with a trigonal board. (29x18, Cells: 378) By Graeme C Neatham.
Battle of titans. Missing description (3x(9x5), Cells: 135) By Daniil Frolov.
Battle Room Chess. Win by getting four of your pieces in or around your enemy's gate. By John Smith.
Bede Chess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99) By Patrik Hedman.
Beginners Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Stephane Burkhart.
Behemoth Loop Chess. Pieces captured by a randomly moving Behemoth can be dropped later. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Thomas .
Beyond Omega. Large abstract variant with radial and oblique pieces requiring rotation. (15x15, Cells: 225) By Charles Gilman.
BigBangChess. Pieces start off-board; the board expands and contracts during play. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Graeme C Neatham.
BigBangChess
. Chess with an expanding and contracting board. By Graeme C Neatham.
Bigsiege Chess. Combining the length of Besiege Chess with the width of Doublewidth Chess. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Charles Gilman.
Binary 1010. Pieces alternate with their binary counterpart in regard to turning off and on. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Gary K. Gifford.
Birds and Ninjas. Immaculately balanced game features pieces with unique fly-over capture ability and short-range diagonal leapers. By Charles Daniel.
Birds and Ninjas
. Featuring the Flying Bombers that fly over to capture, and the short-range Ninja Guards that capture two enemy pieces at once. By Charles Daniel.
Birds and Ninjas
. Two simple checkmate problems for the game. By Charles Daniel.
Birds and Ninjas. Strategically rich chess-like game with powerful dual range orthogonal flying pieces, and short-range diagonal leapers. (10x10, Cells: 104) By Charles Daniel.
The Bishop Adjustment Rule. Missing description By Jose Carrillo.
Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
Bishops Chess. Chess with two light-squared and two dark-squared Bishops on each side. By Albert Lee.
Bizarro Chess. Missing description (2x(8x8), Cells: 64) By Claudio Martins Jaguaribe.
Bland Chess. Chess, but with no diagonal movements (aside from that built within the Knight). Author: Gary K. Gifford.
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.
Bland Chess 46. A 46 square variant of Bland Chess. Allows for War Machine, Knight, and/or Modern War Machine use. Author: Gary K. Gifford. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford and (zzo38) A. Black.
Blender Chess. Bishops, Knights and Rooks can merge and separate. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Bob Greenwade.
Blocschach. Not only is the size of the back rank squared, so is its composition. (8x(8x8), Cells: 512) By Charles Gilman.
Blue Queen on 64 and 80. Blue Queen belongs to both sides. By George William Duke.
Blunderbuss Chess. Pieces are poorer shots than in Rifle Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
Board Image Utility
. A web based application being developed on the Chess Variants Wiki that creates images of CV boards and positions. By Graeme C Neatham.
Breakthrough Chess. Pieces must "break through" a zone of neutral blocks. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
Brookschach. 3d variant with three unconconventional subsets of Queen move. (6x(6x6), Cells: 216) By Charles Gilman.
Bughouse Spartan Chess. streetmansd. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) By Steven Streetman.
Builder chess. Introducing the Builder. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Hafsteinn Kjartansson.
Burden of royality. Missing description By Freederick .
Burden of the royality. Inspired by Evolution Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Burmese Chess. Sittuyin preset uses a mix of equivalent pieces from Alfaerie Set. By Charles Daniel.
Butterfly Chess. Large board chess with butterflies (not Ns), advancers (not Qs) & flying dragons added. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
Butterfly Chess. Game with Butterflies (not Ns), Advancers (not Qs) & Flying Dragons added. By Kevin Pacey.
Calorie Chess. Pieces have a limited amount of calories to move with, and have resorted to cannibalism! (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
Cannono. Pieces move by bifurcation, but capture normally. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
Capablanca Relocation Chess
. The Capablanca piece array can in one move be rearranged, creating 144 different board positions (with zrf). By M Winther.
Captain's Chess. Missing description (9x8, Cells: 72) By Patrik Hedman.
Capture or kill. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
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.
Capture-the-King. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jeremy Gardiner.
Carbery. game for fantasy thing. By Aidan Murphy.
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.
Cardinal Chess. Just like the usual Western contemporary, only replacing Mad Queen with Bishop Knight compound. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Vitya Makov.
Carnage. Featuring the Terror Freeze, Detonator and the Dragon that attack the enemy in 4 different ways. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
Carnage
. Features new pieces that attack by detonation, withdrawal, approach, and immobilization. By Charles Daniel.
Carnage. Combines Rococo type gameplay with Chess on a large board with augmented knights and ninja pawn drops. By Charles Daniel.
Carrera Drop Chess. Game with extra cannons. By Namik Zade.
Carrousel Chess. Game with 32 pieces. (16x4, Cells: 64) By Kevin Pacey.
Cashew Shogi. Many pieces must promote on capture, and some can multi-capture. (13x13, Cells: 169) By H. G. Muller.
Castle Chess. As Fide-chess, but with extended castle: the king may jump three squares (with zrf). By M Winther.
Cat's Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Cataclysm. Large board variant with exciting, strategical play, and many powerful short-range pieces. By Greg Strong.
Cataclysm. Large board game with short-range pieces designed to be dramatic without being overly complicated or dragging on too long. (12x16, Cells: 192) By Greg Strong.
Catalonia. Cooperative variant where the players are trying to form chains while the board is getting bombarded. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Francois Tremblay.
CC chess
. Missing description By Namik Zade.
CC chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
CCC-FF
. Missing description By Namik Zade.
CCC-FF(updated) with zrf.file. Missing description By Namik Zade.
CCChess new generations. Missing description By Namik Zade.
CCChess-FF(In-Yan variant). Missing description By Namik Zade.
Cellular Chess. Play Cellular Chess at Game Courier. By Carlos Cetina.
Cellular Chess. One step towards Joe Joyce's ideal of playing chess on an 100x100 board. (30x30, Cells: 900) By Carlos Cetina.
Central Rotational Chess. Plays like chess except the center (4 squares) rotate after each move and kings must be captured (instead of mated). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
Cetran Chess 2. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
Cetran Chess 2. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Carlos Cetina.
CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Chafl. combines Chess with Tafl. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Graeme C Neatham.
Chameleon Chess Redux. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adam Goss.
Chaotic Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
Charge Chess
. Pieces must move forwards or sideways until they hit the last row. By Jeremy Pflasterer.
Charge of the Light Brigade. Seven knights fight 3 queens, and usually win! (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
Chaturaji modern-variant (4-handed Chaturanga without dice)
. Missing description By Emmanuel Baud.
Checker-capture Chess. Pieces can capture as in checkers game. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Checkers with Bosses. Checkers variant with different types of pieces. Game's main feature are Bosses. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Chennis. Kyoto-Shogi-inspired variant (with alternating piece sides), with a tennis theme. By Daniel Lee.
Chesimal Fusion I. Missing description (16x12) By Joe Joyce.
Chesimals I. This game introduces "Chess Animals", independent groups of chess pieces that act as one large multi-square piece. By Joe Joyce.
Chesimals: Autonomous Multi-unit Pieces. self-contained autonomous multi-square pieces. (16x12, Cells: 192) By Joe Joyce.
Chess 1010. Game played with 40 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
Chess 2 - The Sequel. Different armies, a new winning condition, and duels. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: David Sirlin.
Chess 25 (Fischer Placement Chess). Swap king and/or queen before play begins. Follows FRC rules (with zrf). By M Winther.
Chess 256. The Chess experience upscaled to a larger board. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Johnny Luken.
Chess 4.5. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Kipling Lewis.
Chess 911. 9x9 board plus corner squares, compounds, and special diagonals. (9x9, Cells: 85) By Persian Chess.
Chess 99
. Game with 9 pawns and a paladin. The objective is to capture the opponent's king. Many rules altered. By Claude Lapointe.
Chess and a Half. Game with extra leapers. By sirius628.
Chess Dial. Play starts with Shogi, then mutates into Xiang Qi, then FIDE Chess, then Shogi again! (9x10, Cells: 90) By John Smith.
Chess Latrunculi duo milia et septum. Chess with dragon horse and dragon king movements for bishops and rooks. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
Chess Legions
. Decimal variant with extra, exotic pieces. By Morien Wyn Jones.
Chess on a Mass Transit System. Missing description By Doug Chatham.
Chess on a Soccer Ball
. Chess played on the 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons of a soccer ball. By David Cannon.
Chess on a Soccer Ball. Missing description (Cells: 32) By David Cannon.
Chess on an Infinite Plane. Chess game with no boundaries (infinite board), and Guard, Chancellor, and Hawk. () By V. Reinhart.
Chess on Two Boards. Chess on Two Boards. (4x(4x(4x4)), Cells: 256) By Joe Joyce.
Chess on Two Boards. Chess on Two Boards. By Joe Joyce.
Chess problem - joke. chess problem-joke. By Namik Zade.
Chess Variant Score Notation Book
. Chess score notation book for 100 square chess variants. By Simon Edward Jepps.
Chess Variants, 50 variants on the game of chess. Information on a book. Author: Adrey Caljé.
Chess vs checkers. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Chess vs checkers. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
Chess with a Fool. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Chess with Different Periods. Missing description (6x6, Cells: 36) By Yu Ren Dong.
Chess with Different Periods
. A Turn-related variant of Los Alamos Chess. Players may play with many modest variants. By Yu Ren Dong.
Chess with Extended Castle. Standard chess with extended castle rule, effectuating greater opening variance (with zrf). By M Winther.
Chess with wickets. The wicket is behind the King's 1. (8x8, Cells: 66) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Chess with Wizards. A Decimal Chess Variant with Antoine Fourri. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Chess With Wizards. Chess with Wizards on the Game Courier. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Chess without pawns
. Variant where only kings can take and no pawns are used. Author: Mats Winther. Inventor: Vladislav Rapetsky.
Chess without pawns. Variant where only kings can take and no pawns are used. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Vladislav Rapetsky.
Chess100. Piece positions are modestly randomized according to Arrangement Chess rules, castling is retained (+ zrf). By M Winther.
Chess400. Piece setup is randomized according to Configuration Chess rules, producing 400 modest, mostly non-mirrored, positions (+ zrf). By M Winther.
Chess484. Before play, certain pieces are regrouped, creating natural positions. Castling is retained (+ zrf). By M Winther.
Chess64. The piece array is moderately randomized according to Relocation Chess rules, castling is retained. By M Winther.
Chess8400. Fischer Random Chess ina 9x9 Board. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Jose Carrillo.
Chess960x3. Variant of Chess960. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Hadi Aireche.
Chesscala. Missing description (6x8, Cells: 48) By Francois Tremblay.
ChessCraft. Missing description (Cells: 64) By Changcai Chen.
Chessembly. Open Board Setup, Free Placement Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By JT K.
Chevron Ranks. Pieces use the "ranks" based on the Glinkshy/McCooey analogues to FIDE Pawn ranks. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
chexx. Another variant of hexagonal chess. (Cells: 63) By Dmitriy Golub.
Chimera Chess. The highlight of this chess variant are the Chimera pieces, which are substantially enhanced versions of the orthodox Knight. By Albert Lee.
Chinese Checkers Chess
. Some pieces may make multiple jumps as in Chinese Checkers. By Ken Franklin.
Chinese court. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
Christmas Tree Chess. Missing description (6x(11x11), Cells: 126) By Daniil Frolov.
Circular Capa Chess. Play circular chess with added archbishops and chancellors on a 5x16 round board. By Kevin Pacey.
Circular Capa Chess. Play circular chess with added archbishops and chancellors on a 5x16 round board. (5x16, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
Citadel - 8 & 9 rank. Missing description (9x8, Cells: 72) By Glenn Nicholls.
The Clash of Continents Chess
. Missing description By Namik Zade.
Clash of the Civilizations Chess - new setup. Clash of theCivilizations -new setup. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
Classic sum. Missing description (9x10, Cells: 90) By Daniil Frolov.
The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
. Second edition of the Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, now arranged by category. Author: David B. Pritchard and John Beasley.
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.
Clear of knights chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
College Mess. Smess variant played using a Smess board & set. (7x8, Cells: 56) By Kevin Pacey.
Colossus. Large-board chess with standard pieces and double the number of bishops, rooks and knights. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
Colossus. 10x10 chess with 4 Rooks, 4 Knights, 4 Bishops, 10 Pawns, 1 Queen and 1 King! Author: Charles Daniel and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Charles Daniel.
Colossus
. With twice the number of Rooks, Bishops and Knights. Also includes 5 new variants with exotic pieces. By Charles Daniel.
Colour Chess. Pieces paint the squares they leave, allowing other pieces to move as them. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
Colour Chess and Lure
. Chess Variant where the board is different every time you play, and you can control what pieces your opponent can move next. By Chad W Smith.
Columbiad Chess.
. Introducing the Columbiad, combining a cannon and a Cannonrider, on an H-board (zrf exists). By M Winther.
Command and Maneuver: A Tale of Two Countries. This is a diceless wargame,. (24x12, Cells: 288) By Joe Joyce.
Compact Hex Chess. 2 normal hex armies on a board reduced to sides of length 5. (9x9, Cells: 61) By Charles Gilman.
Complex Allegiance Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 96) By Kuyan Judith.
Complex Allegiance Chess (6 player). Missing description By Kuyan Judith.
Compound Courier Custom Chess. Game uses the Courier 12x8 board and adds knight compound pieces. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Graeme C Neatham.
The Concise Guide to Chess Variants. Missing description Author: David Howe.
Conditional Quantum Chess. You may move to two squares each turn, but only one is a real move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
Configuration Chess. King and queen swap with other pieces before play begins - enormous variety! (with zrf). By M Winther.
Configuration Chess
. Some pieces are rearranged before play begins, thus enhancing opening ramification (with zrf). By M Winther.
Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jose Carrillo.
Corral Chess. Force the opponent to the center in this 45/46 Cell Contest entry. (2x(5x9), Cells: 46) By Doug Chatham.
Corral Chess.. Force the opponent to the center in this 45/46 Cell Contest entry. By Doug Chatham.
Correlator Chess
. Introducing the Correlator which captures by correlating with the king (with zrf). By M Winther.
Corrugated Chess. A minimally-3d answer to the problem of symmetric-array 9-file variants. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Charles Gilman.
Cosmic Chess. Macrocosm and microcosm. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
Cotati Chess. Promotion of a Pawn wins the game. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Evan Koch.
Courier Chess Moderno. A modern variant of the historical variant Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Jose Carrillo.
Courier de los Combinados. A cross between Courier de la Dama and Wildebeest Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Charles Gilman.
Courier Elephant. Missing description By Jose Carrillo.
Courier Eurasion Chess
. Eurasian Chess meets Courier-Spiel. By Graeme C Neatham.
Coward Chess
. King captures usual/moves a sq. only by switching places. By Ken Franklin.
Crab Chess (Chess4). Blocked flank pawns are have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Critters: Chesimals III. Chesimals redesigned. By Joe Joyce.
Crooked Chess. Chess variant with pieces inspired by the Sissa piece. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
The crushing conquerers. another experimental chess with different armies army. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Maxson.
Cube Shogi. Shogi with cube-shaped pieces. By John Smith.
Cube-Surface Board Chesses. Missing description (6x(8x8), Cells: 384) By Kuyan Judith.
Culverin Chess. The Culverin is a cannon that can move like a king but must jump to capture (+zrf). By M Winther.
Culverin Chess
. Introducing the Culverin cannon, which is dropped among standard pieces (zrf exists). By M Winther.
Cupid Chess 3. Pieces trace out geometrical patterns suggested by the way they are designed. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
Custodian Chess. A combination of Chess and ancient Tafl games. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Daniil Frolov.
CwDA: the Shatranjian Shooters. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Joe Joyce. Inventor: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi and Joe Joyce.
Cyclohex. 3-player round hex variant. (24x5, Cells: 120) By Charles Gilman.
Czech Chess. Drop pawns by checking the King. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
Dada. The colorbound chess variant. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Dada. The colorbound chess variant. (7x10, Cells: 70) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Dai Dai Shogi Western. Missing description (17x17, Cells: 289) Author: Christine Bagley-Jones and Eduard Werner.
Deception Chess. Each piece has two identities, Cloak and concealed Base. By Greg Shanker.
Decimal Quadruple Besiege. Army based on Échecs De L'Escalier arranged on enlarged Quadruple Besiege board. (20x20, Cells: 200) By Charles Gilman.
Delta88 Chess. trigonal chess using an hexagonal-lattice board. By Graeme C Neatham.
Delta88 Chess. Chess on a Trigonal Board. (11x8, Cells: 88) By Graeme C Neatham.
Delta88 Chess
. Missing description By Graeme C Neatham.
Denver Chess Club Chigorin Chess Tournament
. I'm sponsoring my first local chess variants tournament. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
Desert Oasis Chess. A large variant with 2 types of repeat jumpers, plus Knights, and Camels. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Gary K. Gifford.
Desert Pub Chess. A game with Desert Ferz and Desert Wazirs which make muliple captures by jumping. By Gary K. Gifford.
Desert Pub Chess. A game where Desert Wazirs & Desert Ferz capture by jumping. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
Diagonal Oblong Chess. The board is an oblong in diagonal direction. By Shi Ji. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Shi Ji.
Diagonal Oblong Chess
. The board is an oblong on diagonal direction. By Shi Ji. By Shi Ji.
Diagonal pawn chess. Pawns always move diagonally, whether capturing or not. By Joel .
Diagram Designer. Lets you display diagrams without uploading any graphics. By Fergus Duniho.
Diamond Chess 306. Missing description (22x24, Cells: 306) By David Cannon.
Diamond Chess 306. A large variant inspired by Tony Paletta's PARACHESS and Fergus Duniho's ASSIMILATION FUSION CHESS. By David Cannon.
Dice-Money Chess. Earn money if you do what is written on the dice. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Directed Alice Chess III. 3-board Alice. By Joe Joyce.
Directed Alice III
. a 3-board Alice Chess variant. By Joe Joyce.
Disintegration Chess. Pre-set for the game of disintegrating kings, rooks, fye'tins, and pawns. By Gary K. Gifford.
Disintegration Chess. Win by disintegrating 3 Kings and having 1 left. (5x9, Cells: 45) By Gary K. Gifford.
Displacement Chess 2. Chess with flexible castling, reverse symmetry and no opening theory. By Charles Daniel.
Displacement Chess 2
. Chess with minor modifications and no opening theory! By Charles Daniel.
Donkey Chess. Grand Chess with Donkeys instead of Knights. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Dragon Chess. Regular chess army against a single, 3x3, unwieldy but powerful piece. By kittytac.
Dragonet Chess. The Dragonet flies to any square queenwise, captures piece behind landing square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Dream Chess 46. 46-squasre variant played from opposite corners of a FIDE board with the other corners removed. (8x8, Cells: 46) By Charles Gilman.
Dream Chess 47. 47-square variant played from opposite corners of a 7 by 7 board with the other corners removed. (7x7, Cells: 47) By Charles Gilman.
Droppable Xiangqi. Another variant of Xiangqi with droppable pieces. (10x9, Cells: 90) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Drunken Nights. A toned down version of the Nutty Knights for Chess with different Armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
DUAL RING Tournament Format. Tournament format for handling uneven number of players. By Rich Hutnik.
Duck Chess. A Duck that must be moved by both players can block your moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: H. G. Muller. Inventor: Tim Paulden.
Dunkeys
. Missing description By Namik Zade.
Duplication Chess. Twice per game, move a piece with duplication. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Dürer's Chess. Dürer's Chess, played on a board of 151 tessellating pentagons and diamonds. (Cells: 151) By David Cannon.
Durerschess
. Dürer's Chess is played on a tiling of tessellating pentagons and diamonds, first described by Albrecht Dürer in 1525. By David Cannon.
Dynasty Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Ben M Reiniger.
Easterhouse. Captured pieces switch between Xiang Qi and Shogi boards. (9x19, Cells: 171) By Charles Gilman.
echess. (Micro) Evolutionary CHESS game. By bp .
Echidna Chess
. Introducing the Echidna, a repulsion piece with telekinetic capacities (with zrf). By M Winther.
Elven Chess. Chu Shogi Lion, Dragon Horse, Dragon King, Guard on Grand Chess type setup. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
Elven Chess. 10x10 variant with 4 new pieces, of which one can double-capture. (10x10, Cells: 100) By H. G. Muller.
Elven Chess. Play this 10x10 variant with a double-capturing piece on Jocly. Author: H. G. Muller and Michel Gutierrez. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
Emperor's Nobility 3d Latrunculi (EN3dL). 3d variant in which pieces can get promoted again and again. (5x(5x10), Cells: 250) By Charles Gilman.
En Passant Chess. All pieces have the en passant option. Koksal Karakus version. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
Ender's Chess. Inspired by by the novel, "Ender's Game". (9x11, Cells: 83) By John Smith.
Enep. An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Aurelian Florea.
Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Entangled chess. Game inspired by the physical phenomenon of quantum entanglement. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Theodoros Papadopoulos.
Euqorab. Anti-Baroque. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Smith.
Eurasia-Chess Chessmen Piece Set. for Chess, XiangQi, Shogi and other Chess variants. By Emmanuel Baud.
EurasiaChess Shogi Graphics. Graphics of shogi pieces mixing European chess symbols & Japanese Kanji. By Emmanuel Baud.
EurasiaChess: Photos of Chessmen Shogi Pieces adaptation. http://www.eurasia-chess.com. By Emmanuel Baud.
Eurasian Pawn piece. A hybrid European and Asian Pawn. By Rich Hutnik.
European Chess. A multiplayer, different armies form of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
ExCoCo Chess. Missing description By Graeme C Neatham.
ExCoCo Chess
. Zip file containing zrf and images. By Graeme C Neatham.
Execute the Game
. Pieces have unique abilities and uses dice-based combat. By Davey W Drehs.
Exhaustive Ashtaranga. Enough of every piece from Courier Ashtaranga to cover the board between them. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Charles Gilman.
Exile Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Patrik Hedman.
Expanded Chess. An attempt at a logical expansion of Chess to a 10x10 board. By Daniel Zacharias.
Expanded Chess 256. The Chess experience upscaled to a larger board. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Johnny Luken.
Expanded Chinese Chess. Missing description (9x12, Cells: 108) By Travis Z.
Extrapawn Chess. Standard chess with one extra pawn per player in the reserve (with zrf). By M Winther.
Extreme 2D Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By Larry L. Smith.
Fairy Pieces Part 1. Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
Fairy-Max. A chess engine configurable for playing a wide variety of chess variants. By H. G. Muller.
Falcon Chess RNFB. Falcon Chess with the formation Rook, Knight, Falcon, Bishop. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: George William Duke.
Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Hex Falcon on the Game Courier. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Falcon into the Hexagonal world. (Cells: 121) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Falcon Hexagonal Chess
. Introducing the Hex Falcon. Author: Graeme C Neatham. Inventor: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Falcon King Chess. A shortrange variant on an 8x8 board featuring a pair of royal Falcons. By Joe Joyce.
Famicom PPU Chess. Game inspired by limitation of Famicom PPU. (10x10, Cells: 80) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
FIDE Chess with Extra Pieces. FIDE Chess but with substitute pieces. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
File Sharing Chess. File Sharing, pawn swapping, always passed pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By JT K.
Fimbriation Chess. Combines 4 players with 2-player Pawn treks and Castling. (14x14, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
Flatstar. A fusion of two Jewish-themed variants. (13x10) By Charles Gilman.
Flexible Chess (F-chess)
. The light pieces can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces are external and can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf). By M Winther.
Flexible Chinese Chess (F-Xiangqi)
. Xiangqi variant where the horses are initially external (with zrf). By M Winther.
Flexible Palace and Flexible River Xiang Qi. Boundaries of Palaces and the River are determined by the location of the Advisors, Generals, Elephants, and Soldiers. (9x10, Cells: 90) By John Smith.
Flight and Ferry. The gold dragon of Wessex fights the red one of Wales across the Bristol Channel. (8x10, Cells: 80) By Charles Gilman.
FlipFlop. A minimalistic Chess-like game with only one type of piece. Author: Ola Sassersson. Inventor: Masahiro Nakajima.
Flipped-return Nichtschach. Pieces return as something else on the same 3d board. (6x(6x6), Cells: 216) By Charles Gilman.
Fluid Chess. A modest variation allowing movement through friendly pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joe Joyce.
Fluid Chess. Pieces can move into (or through or out of and into again) friendly pieces ("into" up to compounds). Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Joe Joyce.
Flying Bombers Chess. This dual-range flying and jumping piece adds a new dimension to chess. Standard and large board presets. By Charles Daniel.
Flying Bombers with Hangars. Features the flying bomber - a versatile dual range piece that captures by flying over the enemy. (8x8, Cells: 68) By Charles Daniel.
Flying Dutchman. Win by Reaching Port. (8x8, Cells: 64) By George William Duke.
Foolish King Chess. Players have different armies and victory conditions. White has a fool for a king. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Patrik Hedman.
For the Crown. A commercial crossover with deck-building games. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jeremy Lennert.
Force Field Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Douglas Yale Kaplan Seiden-Sacharovich.
fortress. Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Ben M Reiniger.
Forwards Chess. A variation of FIDE Chess where pieces only move forward. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rich Hutnik.
Four Double-Acts Chess. Specifically long- and shart-range versions of the Friend, Joker, and Orphan. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Gilman.
Four-Fold Chess. Missing description (16x16, Cells: 256) By Larry L. Smith.
Fragnurasian Qi. A two-River variant with the whole of two identical Wildeurasian Qi sets minus the second King. (13x15, Cells: 195) By Charles Gilman.
Freakshow Chess. Missing description (9x8, Cells: 72) By Patrik Hedman.
Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
Froghouse. Like Bughouse except each team has a Black, White, and Green. Green goes "in between", namely after white but before black. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jordan Lampe.
From Stalemate to Checkmate. Missing description By Glenn Nicholls.
Frontofhouse. Captured pieces return with only their forward moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
Full house hexagonal chess. Game with 50 pieces. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Kevin Pacey.
Future Chess
. With extra empty corner squares. Pieces can be relocated before play begins. Creates immense strategical variance (with zrf). By M Winther.
Gala Xiang-Qi. Crossover game. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Daniil Frolov.
The Game of Three Generals. Each player has three generals, which command different sections of his army. (9x9, Cells: 81) By John Smith.
Ganeshan Chess. Introducing a new Elephant piece known as (the) Ganapati. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Simon Edward Jepps.
Generals' Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By Patrik Hedman.
Generating Random Positions. How to generate random positions? By Jose Carrillo.
Geographical Chess Notation. A new notaional system for Chess variants. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Ghast knights. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Ghostarelay. Game with ghost and relay, win if you have no legal moves. (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Ghostrider Chess.. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Claudio Martins Jaguaribe.
Gi-Qi-Game. Another one crossover of European, Chinese and Japanese chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Daniil Frolov.
Gladiators
. Missing description By Namik Zade.
Gladiatrix Chess
. Introducing the Gladiatrix, an extremely agile female gladiator, on an H-board (zrf available). By M Winther.
Gleeman Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By Patrik Hedman.
goChess. goChess. By Joe Joyce.
Gomoku and Donkeys. Missing description By Namik Zade.
Good and Evil Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
Goodchess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Este.
GoshawkChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two Goshawks per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor. By James Zuercher.
Grand CwDA: the Shatranjians. Grand CwDA. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Joe Joyce.
Grand Ducal Chess. Missing description (12x8, Cells: 96) By John Ayer.
Grand hecatomb. Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) By Daniil Frolov.
Grand Shatranj N W. Shatranj with 10 individual pieces + pawns per army. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Mark Simpson.
Grand Tamerlane. John Davis invented this variation of Mideast Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: John Davis.
Grand Tamerlane Chess. Variation of Mideast Chess by John Davis. Author: Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: John Davis.
GraTiA. A blend of two historic variants. (13x12, Cells: 156) By Charles Gilman.
GraTiA. Preset for GraTiA, a blend of two historic variants. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
Great Stour. Diagonal-heavy mixed-camp variant on Courier board with River. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Charles Gilman.
Gross Chess. A big variant with a small learning curve. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Fergus Duniho.
Gross Chess. Play this 144 square variant online with Game Courier. By Fergus Duniho.
Gross Chess
. Play this 144 square variant with Zillions of Games. By Fergus Duniho.
Groundskeeper Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Yu Ren Dong.
Groundskeeper Chess
. Missing description By Yu Ren Dong.
Gryphon Aanca Chess. Large variant with Gryphons, Aancas, and a few other not-so-common pieces. By Gary K. Gifford.
Gryphon Aanca Chess. Large Variant with Gryphons, Aancas, and a few other not-so-common pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Gary K. Gifford.
Guanaco Chess
. Introducing the Guanaco that hops two squares orthogonally continuously (with zrf). By M Winther.
Guru Mahachaturanga. 2d India-specific offshoot of AOF series. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
Gustavian Adjutant Chess
. Standard chess with empty extra corner squares and extended castling (with zrf). By M Winther.
Gustavian Cannon Chess
. Featuring the remarkable Swedish Cannon on a Gustavian board, where it thrives (zrf available). By M Winther.
Gustavian-Cannon Chess. The Swedish Cannon moves like a Korean Cannon, but can move like a rook if it cannot jump (+zrf). By M Winther.
Gutenschach. 3d variant using only planar pieces. (8x(8x8), Cells: 512) By Charles Gilman.
Gyokugi. Extends chevron ranks to analogues of Shogi generals, named after individual jewels. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
Hadean Chess. Expanded chess with short-range linear jumpers, augmented knights and zebras and more dynamic pawns. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Daniel.
Hadean Chess. Large chess with 12 pawns, 10 Ninja Pawns, 4 short-range linear jumpers, and Wazir/Ferz Zebra and Knight compounds. By Charles Daniel.
Hadean Chess
. Play expanded chess with Ferz/Wazir Sorcerers, Ferz/Wazir Knights, Flying Warmachines. Flying Elephants and Ninja Pawns. By Charles Daniel.
Half Nearlydouble Chess and offshoots. Chess enlarged and then shrunk again - or vice versa. (5x12, Cells: 60) By Charles Gilman.
Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
Har Meggido Chess. Missing description (15x18, Cells: 270) By Claudio Martins Jaguaribe.
Heathen Europe Chess. 2 player cubic-cell Europe-specific offshoot of AOF series. (6x6, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
Heavy Gravity Chess. Chess with heavy gravity, Knights can't jump, Queens, Bishops, and Rooks are limited to 4 spaces per move, Kings move 1 diagonal. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
Heavy Gravity Chess. Due to heavy gravity, Knights can't jump, Queens, Rooks, & Bishops can't move more than 4 spaces. Kings move like Ferz. By Gary K. Gifford.
Henry VIII Chess. This is a hybrid capture king-losing chess variant. (7x8, Cells: 56) By Rich Hutnik.
Henry VIII Chess Preset. This is the preset for Henry VIII Chess (unique take on Extinction Chess). Author: Rich Hutnik.
Herculean Chess. 12 x 12 version of chess featuring 4 Rooks, 4 Bishops, 4 Leapers and 22 pawns. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Daniel.
Herculean Chess. Large board chess with augmented versions of Bishops, Rooks, Zebras, Knights and pawns. By Charles Daniel.
Herculean Chess
. Extended version of chess features the Flying Bishops, the Flying Chariots, Ninja Pawns, Augmented Knights and Zebras. By Charles Daniel.
Heroes Hex Chess version 2. Hexagonal Chess with new movement rules on a "standard" 91 hex board. By Tony Quintanilla.
Heroes Hexagonal Chess version 2. Updated version of Heroes Hexagonal Chess in 91 hexes. (Cells: 91) By Tony Quintanilla.
Hex Besiege. Two slightly modified McCooey sets placed b(l)ack to b(l)ack. (11x21, Cells: 187) By Charles Gilman.
Hex Dragonal Chess. horizontal hex-rows and 4 defined directions of movement. By Graeme C Neatham.
Hex Dragonal Chess. Based on an idea by Jeremy Good this CV has horizontal rows of hexes and an unusual set of directions,. (13x13, Cells: 127) By Graeme C Neatham.
Hex Frontofhouse. Captured hex pieces return with only their forward moves. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
Hexagonal Chess with Hexagonalers. Missing description By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
Hexagonal Iss Jetan
. Missing description By Larry L. Smith.
Hexagonal Iss Jetan. Missing description (7x13, Cells: 127) By Larry L. Smith.
Hexagonal Raumschach. Three dimensional analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess, based on Raumschach. (5x(7x7), Cells: 185) By Kevin Pacey.
Hexagonal Raumschach. 3D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Raumschach. By Kevin Pacey.
Hexajedrez. Variant of Dave McCooey's Hexagonal Chess. By Carlos Cetina.
Hexajedrez. Variation of Dave McCooey's Hexagonal Chess. (Cells: 91) By Carlos Cetina.
Hexcetran Chess. Hexagonal variant starting from random setups. (Cells: 91) By Carlos Cetina.
Hexcetran Chess. Play Hexcetran Chess at Game Courier. By Carlos Cetina.
Hexiang Qi. Hexagonal Variant of Xiang Qi. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Robert Hancock.
Hia Chess. Smaller 9x8 variation of the Mongolian Hiashatar. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Jose Carrillo.
Hikaru Nakamura
. Current U.S. Champion is also accomplished at some variants. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
HiveQueen. Missing description (Cells: 61) By Larry L. Smith.
HiveQueen
. Missing description By Larry L. Smith.
Holy Grail. Extended chess game with ability to drop a mutating piece and a crown price that changes the winning conditions. By Charles Daniel.
Holy Grail
. With the extraordinary but deadly Serpent that mutates into the Flying Bomber, Raptor, Cannon, Vao, Stealth Gryphon and more! By Charles Daniel.
Holy Grail. To win, checkmate both the King and the Crown Prince but avoid the evil Mutating Serpent! (10x10, Cells: 104) By Charles Daniel.
Honeycomb Minishogi. Hex-prism version of 3d Minishogi, with compulsory setup phase. (4x(4x5), Cells: 50) By Charles Gilman.
Hoo Mitregi. Intermediate between Mitregi itself and Dai Mitregi. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
Horn Rimmed Hex 1: 91 to 127. Start of hex analogue to the Mitred Framing series. (13x13, Cells: 127) By Charles Gilman.
Horn Rimmed Hex 2: 61 to 91. Continuation of hex analogue to the Mitred Framing series. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
Hourglass Honeycomb Chess. 2 overlapping triangular prisms form a hex-prism board maximising the King's choice of Castling. (7x(7x7), Cells: 280) By Charles Gilman.
Humpty Dumpty Chess. Cannon-using variant inspired by history of the character Humpty Dumpty. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Charles Gilman.
Hunt Chess. Huntsman Chess and Groundskeeper Chess. Author: John Smith. Inventor: Yu Ren Dong and John Smith.
Hunterbeest. Large variant with one each of distinctive Nimrod pieces, and of similar set of oblique pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) By Charles Gilman.
Huntsman Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 80) By Yu Ren Dong.
Huntsman Chess
. Missing description By Yu Ren Dong.
IAGO Chess System. http://abstractgamers.org/wiki/iago-chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rich Hutnik.
IAGO Chess ZRF file
. ZRF file for IAGO Chess rules. By Rich Hutnik.
iChess
. Missing description By Pangus Ho.
iChess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Pangus Ho.
Ideal Chess. A social game that melds FIDE chess with playing cards. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Graeme C Neatham.
If regular octogonal chess would be possible?. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
Improved Chess. An improvement of standard chess: a blocked pawn on the far side gets extra jump moves to empty squares (with zrf). By M Winther.
Index A to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter A. By Charles Gilman.
Index B to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter B. By Charles Gilman.
Index C 1 to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter C followed by a-m. By Charles Gilman.
Index C 2 to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter C followed by o. By Charles Gilman.
Index D to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter D. By Charles Gilman.
Index E to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter E. By Charles Gilman.
Index F to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter F. By Charles Gilman.
Index G to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter G. By Charles Gilman.
Index H to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter H. By Charles Gilman.
Index I to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letters I to K. By Charles Gilman.
Index L to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter L. By Charles Gilman.
Index M to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter M. By Charles Gilman.
Index N to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter N. By Charles Gilman.