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Reroute66. Play this adaptation of Chess to a 66 space board with some overlapping spaces. (10x8, Cells: 66)
Reroute66. A simpler game using the same board as Gerd Degens' Chess66. (10x8, Cells: 66)
Reserve Chess. Units may be removed from the board and dropped back in later.
Reservists' doublechess. Each side has 16 non-pawn pieces, split among 10 types.
Restricted Area Chess. Game with restricted areas. (9x10, Cells: 62)
Results of finals voting of the 10-contest. Who won the contest celebrating 10 years of this website?
Retiar Chess.
Introducing the Retiar, a bifurcating bounce-slider, on an H-board (zrf available).
Retreating Chess. Pieces must fall back one square after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Retro Chess. A chess game progresses backwards from an empty board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Retrochess. Play chess from the end of the game backwards. (8x8, Cells: 64)
The Retrograde Analysis Corner. Website with much information on retrograde chess problems.
Rettah. Different setup and powerfull king. Taking obligatory when in check. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rettah Chess. King can move as any piece but must capture its attacker.
Revelation Chess. The object is to obtain four knights of your color on the board.
Revenge of the King. http://xn--perlebr-bxa.de/2010/02/Vergeltung-des-K%C3%B6nigs. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Reverse Symmetry. Missing description
Reversi Chess. Pieces closed in on a line can be converted to the other side. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Reverso Chess. White king and queen are reversed in the initial position.
Review New Submissions. A listing of all submissions still awaiting editorial approval.
Review: 3 Man Chess. Missing description
Review: 303 Tactical Chess Puzzles. Book of Fred Wilson and Bruce Alberston to train chess combination skills.
Review: Chessapeak Challenge Classic. Missing description
Review: Chesshousers. Review of computer game.
Review: Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. A review.
Review: Guide des echecs exotiques & insolites. Review of French book about Chess variants.
Review: Heraldic Chess. A review of Modest Solans' game Heraldic Chess.
Review: HEXchess. Review of commercial three-player Chess variant.
Review: Knightmare Chess. Review of commercial Chess variant using cards that change things.
Review: Meta-Chess. Missing description
Review: Meta-Chess. Missing description
Review: New Rules for Classic Games. A review.
Review: Noble Celts. Review of commercial Chess variant set.
Review: Omega Chess. Review of commercial Chess variant set.
Review: Omega Chess. Review of commercial Chess variant set.
Review: Omega Chess. Review of commercial Chess variant.
Review: Omnigon. Photos and Review of commercial variant.
Review: Popular Chess Variants. A review.
Review: Roundtable Chess. Review of multiplayer Chess variant set on a round board.
Review: Sammy Seahorse Teaches Chess. A review.
Review: White and Black from Brown - A Selection of 168 Diagrams. Review of book of fairy chess problems.
Review: Winning Chess - Tactics and Strategies. Review of a Chess book.
Review: Winning Chess Piece by Piece. Review of a Chess book for children.
Review: Zillions-of-Games. Missing description
Review: Zillions-of-Games. Review of Windows program for playing user-programmed Chess variants and other strategy board games.
Revised Chess.
The pawn can also capture forwards if positioned on 7th rank. Thus, many more won endgames (zrf included).
Revised Chess. A revision of Fide-chess: a pawn on the seventh rank can also capture forwards. Makes chess much less drawish (with zrf).
Revolver Practice: A Chess Problem. White mates in 21 moves on board in shape of revolver.
Rex. Six Direction Chess.
REX Hexagonal Chess. Six Direction Chess. (Cells: 85)
Rhino. A set of pieces which combine the movements of the Mao with that of the Wazir.
Rhino Chess
. Collection of variants designed to demonstrate the Rhino family of pieces.
Rhombic Chess. Game with a board of rhombuses. (11x11, Cells: 67)
Rhomboidal Chess. Chess variant on rhombic cells. (8x16, Cells: 84)
Ribbon Boards. Make light, handsome, reshapable Chess variant boards out of Christmas ribbons.
Richard Goode's 3D Chess. Three-Dimensional Chess.
Richard's Play-By-eMail Server. Play any of 21 chess variants via email.
Rifle Chess. Take a move to capture an enemy piece without moving the capturing piece.
Rifle Chess. Pieces are taken by shooting: capturing without moving. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rifle Chess
. Pieces are taken by shooting: capturing without moving.
Rifle Chess. Units capture without moving.
Riftwalker Chess. A 4 dimensional game on a 3x3x3x3 board. (3x(3x(3x3)), Cells: 81)
Riga Chess. Escort King and Queen to the opposite side of the board.
Right or Left Chess
. Pieces are either right-moving or left-moving and may flip from one to the other.
Riley's Four Army Chess. Several ways to win.
Ringworld Chess. Themed hex variant differentiating opposite directions along orthogonals. (Cells: 198)
Rithmomachia. Information on Rithmomachia. (16x8, Cells: 128)
Rithmomacia. Medieval game based on arithmetic and number theory.
River Chess
. Get one of your pieces to the other side of the board.
River Chess. Win by getting a piece to the opposite side.
Robber Chess
. Sliding pieces can make multiple captures, and the goal is to capture all opposing pieces.
Robber-Baron
. Which of the seven robbers is the robber-baron?
Robber-Baron. Which of the seven robbers is the robber-baron? (7x7, Cells: 39)
Rocket Chess. Space-themed fairy chess variant on neoteric board: piece’s movement depends on type of cell where it stands. (Cells: 248)
Rococo
. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board.
Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!)
Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board (includes mirror array and Push-Pullyu variants).
Rococo. Animated piece movement diagrams.
Rococo Zillions Saved Game
. Download this file to see this game played in the Multivariant Play by E-Mail Tournament.
Rogue Pawn Chess
. Pawns may double-move on any rank except for their starting rank.
' Roid Rage Chess.
Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rollerball. Play this game based on a science fiction sport on Jocly.
Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square. (7x7, Cells: 40)
Rollerball
. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square.
Rollerball. Chess race fight on board formed by removing 3 by 3 square from center of 7 by 7 square.
Rolling Chess. A game played with dice, where movement causes rolling and rolling changes piece identity. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rolling Kings
. Kings must move along a predetermined path.
Rolling Kings. Play Rolling Kings online with Game Courier.
Rolling Kings. Kings must move along a predetermined path. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rolling Kings Chess. Kings move by themselves.
Roman Chess
. Commercial chess variant on 10x10 board with two non-royal kings added.
Roman Chess. Commercial chess variant on a 10x10 board with two non-royal kings added.
Roman Chess. 10x10 variant available commercially.
Romanchenko's chess
. Game on a Z-shaped board to inspire new thinking.
Romanchenko's Chess. A board with a kind of Z-form. (10x8, Cells: 64)
Romanchenko's Chess. FIDE Chess trainer Romanchenko shifted the FIDE board in the middle to help his students think for themselves.
Romanchenko's Chess. New chessboard with sides displaced.
Romanchenko's Chess. Play Chess on a slightly shifted board with Jocly.
Romulan Chess. Kriegspiel variant: played with a referee where pieces cloak and uncloak. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rook (a.k.a. Chariot). Moves across unobstructed orthogonal line.
Rook Mania. Game where all pieces have different sorts of Rook-like moves. (7x7, Cells: 43)
Rook Odds Chess. White starts without the queen's rook.
Rook Square Chess. Enemy rook squares are royal.
Rookheavy Chess and Bishopheavy Chess.
combining elements of Lilliputian Chess, Isis, Mongolian Chess, and crooked linepieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rooksquare Chess. Win by moving piece to corner at opponent's side. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rooksquare Chess
. Win by moving piece to corner at opponent's side.
Root-fifty leaper. makes a (5,5)-jump or an (7,1)-jump.
Rose. Can make consecutive knightmoves in a circle.
Rose Chess. Grand Chess with Roses substituted for knights, Rose-Bishop for Cardinal, Rose-Rook for Marshall.
Rose Chess.
Grand Chess, with Roses instead of Knights. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Rose chess. Hexagonal chess variant, with additional variants, from St Albans, UK. (Cells: 91)
Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines.
Rose Chess XII.
With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines. (12x12, Cells: 144)
Rose Concept. Missing description
Roswell Chess. Preset for alien game with abstract pieces that operate in unusual ways.
Roswell Chess. A game not meant for humans. Uses alien hieroglyphic pieces based on an alleged 1947 Roswell NM incident. (7x10, Cells: 70)
Rotary. On a 9 by 9 board with rotating pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Rotary. Missing description
Rotary Chess. Featuring rotary counterparts of existing (and generally familiar) pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144)
Rotating Cylinder Chess. Positions of pieces rotate one square to the right after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rotation Chess. Every ten turns, you switch and play the other player's units.
Rotation Chess. Every ten moves, switch sides with your opponent. How might you prepare for the demise of the pieces you are playing?
Rotation Chess. Every 10th move, the board is turned around. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rotor-blades Chess. Game played on a board that is both circular and trigonal. (Cells: 150)
Rotor-blades Chess
. Played on a circular tessellation of 150 triangular cells.
Rotorblades Fusion Chess
. A cross between my own Rotorblades Chess and Fergus Duniho's Assimilation Fusion Chess, with a few extra features.
Rotorblades Fusion Chess. Played on a circular tiling on triangular cells. A further development of my previous game, Rotorblades Chess. (Cells: 150)
Round chess. A variant of Shatranj, played on a round board. (Cells: 64)
Round Honeycomb Chess
. Round Honeycomb Chess is a cross between Circular/Cylindrical Chess and Hexagonal Chess.
Round Honeycomb Chess. A cross between Circular/Cylindrical Chess and Hexagonal Chess. (9x11, Cells: 99)
Round Table Chess. Chess variant on a board with round and square part. (Cells: 92)
Round Table Chess 84. Chess on a special round board with 84 squares. (Cells: 84)
Round Table Chess 84
. Chess on a special round board with 84 squares.
Roundtable Chess. A review.
Royal Amazon Chess
. Queens are replaced by Royal Amazons.
Royal Amazon Chess.
Queens are replaced by Royal Amazons. (8x8, Cells: 64)
A Royal and His Pet.
Missing description
Royal Bishop Chess.
Simple variant with royal bishop. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Royal CannonChess.
Pieces next to the king can capture forwards by a cannon leap.
Royal Chess. Variant on ten by eight board. (10x8, Cells: 80)
Royal Chess. Chess on an extended board with Royal Guard pieces added.
Royal Court. Play Royal Court on Game Courier.
Royal Court. On 8 by 10 board with crowned knights: can move like king or knight. (10x8, Cells: 80)
Royal Fury. A Futuristic Chessery Game - relaxed win rules.
Royal Guard Chess
. Royal Guards help defend King and all pieces can promote.
Royal Lion Chess.
Chess with a Royal Lion and many strong pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Royal Magician Chess. Missing description
Royal Magician's Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Royal Magician's Chess. King and special magician piece earn the right to drop pieces when they venture out to the fourth, fifth and sixth ranks!
Royal Pawn. Missing description
Royal Pawn Chess. Same as FIDE Chess, except the pawns in front of the kings are royal, meaning the object is to checkmate them and not the king.
Royal Queens Chess. Game with full board and all pieces are sliders or immobile and victory is by capture of all 8 opposing Queens.
Royal Rumble. A 6 board all-out melee with random pieces, royals and starting positions.
Royal Rumble. A 6 board all-out melee with random pieces, royals and starting positions.
The Royal Standard. Highly original game that introduced the famous windmill piece!
The Royal Standard. Pieces can only move when near a standard-bearer piece on board with 38 squares. (7x6, Cells: 38)
The Royal Substitute Chess. The king is replaced by nine pawns. (9x7, Cells: 63)
Royal-Copy Chess.
Some pieces can gain power of captured pieces. (9x8, Cells: 72)
RPGchess. Combines chess with Role Playing Game rules.
RSS Feed. Chess Variant Pages RSS Feed.
Rubble Chess. Pieces must clear out unoccupied squares before they can move through them.
Rubble Chess
. Pieces must clear out unoccupied squares before they can move through them.
Rubble Chess. Pieces must clear out unoccupied squares before they can move through them. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Ruddigore Chess. Play this Chessgi variant where you can capture your own pieces, and every other turn you must capture or sacrifice a piece!
Ruddigore Chess
. Chessgi variant where you can capture your own pieces, and every other turn you must capture or sacrifice a piece.
Ruddigore Chess. Chessgi variant where you can capture your own pieces, and every other turn you must capture or sacrifice a piece. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Rule Zero. A base or starting rule set for most Chess variants.
Rules for historic Shogi variants. Missing description
Rules for the 84 Spaces Contest. Contest held in 2002.
Rules of Chess 1. Missing description
Rules of Chess 2. Missing description
Rules of Chess 3. Missing description
Rules of Chess 4. Missing description
Rules of Chess 5. Missing description
Rules of Chess 6. Missing description
Rules of Chess 7. Missing description
Rules of Chess: Castling FAQ. Frequent asked questions about castling.
Rules of Chess: Check, Mate, and Stalemate. Answers to frequently asked questions.
Rules of Chess: En passant capture FAQ. Answers to some questions about the en passant capture rule.
Rules of Chess: Kings and check. Answers to frequently asked questions on the rules of chess regarding kings and check.
Rules of Chess: Knights. FAQ on therules of chess regarding knights.
Rules of Chess: Pawns FAQ. Rules of promotion and movement of pawns explained.
The Rules of Chess: Perpetual Check. Explanation of perpetual check with an animated diagram.
Rules of Chess: Queen FAQ. Soms answers on questions on the rules of chess, regarding queens.
Rules of Chess: The 50 moves rule. Answer to a frequently asked question on the rules of chess.
Russian Chess. Pieces are not removed when captured, but stacked. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Russian fortress chess. An old Russian variant for four players. (Cells: 192)
Russian Fortress Chess. Missing description
Russian progressive chess. Progressive chess variants where one occasionally moves a piece of the opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Russian Progressive Chess. Missing description
Russian Symmetric Chess. Russian 9x9 variant.
Russian Symmetrical Chess. Rusian 9x9 variant with symmetrical setup and Pawns that get more powerful halfway across the board.
Rutherford's 1-dimensional Shogi. Modern one-dimensional chess variant, based upon Shogi.
Rutherford’s 1-dimensional Shogi. Modern one-dimensional chess variant, based upon Shogi. (1x17, Cells: 17)
Ryu Shogi
. Large modern shogi variant.
Ryu Shogi. Large modern shogi variant. (7x12, Cells: 84)
Ryugi. 10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider.
Ryugi. 10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider.
Sac Chess. Play classical chess along with classical compound pieces: amazons, chancellors, archbishops...
Sac Chess. Game with 60 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Sacred King Chess
. It is not legal to check your opponent's King, so victory is by stalemate or bare King.
Sacrifice chess. Instead of a normal move, you may sacrifice a pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sacrificial chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Safe Passage. Move pieces to opposite side without putting pieces in danger of capture.
Sage Chess.
Missing description (8x16, Cells: 128)
Sagittar Chess.
Introducing the Sagittar, a bifurcation cannon related to the Korean cannon, on an H-board (zrf available).
Sai squad. A very experimental army for Chess with different armies, featuring the Sai (Bishop-Quintessence compound). (8x8, Cells: 64)
Saint Pancras Shogi. double-set Sainted Shogi variant with half the pieces starting promoted. (11x12, Cells: 132)
Saisho shogi. Game with one dice-shaped shared piece.
Salmon P. Chess. Huge three-dimensional game celebrating 10 years chess variant pages. (10x(), Cells: 7500)
Samarcanda. Variant of Mideast Chess with Crooked Bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Samarcanda
. Variant of Mideast Chess with Crooked Bishops.
Samarcanda. Zebras, Camels, Crooked Bishops, Squirrels and the FIDE Army populate this exciting game.
Sammy Seahorse Teaches Chess. A review.
Samnis Chess.
Introducing the Samnis, which combines rook-capture with bifurcated bounce-movement, on a Gustavian board (zrf available).
San-kwo-k'i. inese Chess for three players (Game of the Three Kingdoms). (Cells: 135)
Sanctuary
. 46-cell game with elements from Xiang Qi.
Sanctuary Chess. Archbishop and Swiss Guard replace Queen and King; no checkmate.
Sanctuary Chess. Archbishop and Swiss Guard replace Queen and King; no checkmate.
Sanctuary Chess. Archbishop and Swiss Guard replace Queen and King; no checkmate. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sanguo Qi. Chinese Chess for three players (Game of the Three Kingdoms). (Cells: 135)
Sankaku Shogi. Small Shogi variant played on a board of 44 triangles with no drops and a teleporting Emperor. (7x8, Cells: 44)
Sankaku Shogi
. Small Shogi variant played on a board of 44 triangles with no drops and a teleporting Emperor.
SASR chess symbols. Minimalistic graphics for chess and variants.
Save the Standard. Missing description
Save the Standard. A Tafl inspired game, with equal forces and the addition of a Cavalry piece. (15x7, Cells: 101)
Save the Standard
. Zip file containing zrf and graphics for 7x7 and 13x13 home fields.
SC-Chess. Variant of Hostage Chess which allows self-capture and other minor rule changes. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Scacchi Eterodossi Club. Italian/English website for online playing of chessvariants.
Scatha. Simple open-source hexagonal chess playing engine.
Sceptre 1027. Photo's of a set of this commercial multiplayer chess variant of the 1980's.
Sceptre 1027 A.D.. Large, commercial, multiplayer chess variant. (9x(8x8), Cells: 576)
Schach mal anders. German booklet describing several different chess variants.
Schach-B. One selected from among the Fischer Random boards, also known as Fischer Random position # 542.
Schachdame
. Variant between Checkers and Chess.
Schachdame. Variant between Checkers and Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Schachdame Chess. Pawns, a bishop, and a royal ferz.
Schachen - Chess me. Commercial chess variant with board and pieces replaced by cards.
Schachmühle
. Morris game played on a Chessboard with Chess pieces.
Schada - Het Wereld Spel. A crossover between Chess and Draughts from the 1930's. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Schatxx. A crossover between chess and the computer board game Ataxx . (8x8, Cells: 64)
Scheherazade. Pieces may combine with other pieces to form combination pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100)
SchemingMind.com Internet Correspondence Chess Club. Missing description
Schizochess. Halves of the chessboards get swapped every five moves.
Schizophrenic Chess
. Game on 12x7 board with Left and Right Schizzys, Bobbers, Teleporters and other exotic pieces.
Schizophrenic Chess. Game on 12x7 board with Left and Right Schizzys, Bobbers, Teleporters and other exotic pieces. (12x7, Cells: 84)
School Chess. Before movement of a figure, the player speaks the name of city on the letter, on which the name of a moved piece begins.
Schoolbook. This is a Game Courier preset for Schoolbook Chess.
Schoolbook.
8x10 chess with the rook + knight and bishop + knight pieces added. (10x8, Cells: 80)
Schoolbook
. Zillions file for Schoolbook.
Schoolbook (updated)
. Missing description
Schoolbook openings #1. Missing description
Scion. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100)
Scion
. Missing description
Scirocco. Play this decimal variant with several weak fairy pieces on Jocly.
Scirocco (original)
. On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces.
Scirocco (original). On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Scirocco (revised). On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Scirocco (revised)
. On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces.
Scorpion. King with grasshopper power.
Scorpion Chess.
Poisonous Scorpions instead of pawns.
Scorpion King Chess. King can also move as grasshopper.
Scotch Chess. Missing description
Scotch Modern Chess. A check or move to a guarded square ends the series.
Scottish Progressive Chess. White moves one time, black twice, white three times, etc. Series ends when check is given. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Scout Chess.
Introducing the Scout, combining queen-captures with Camelrider moves (zrf exists).
Scrabble Battle Chess. Complicated game that uses a scrabble set, dice, playing cards with magic spells, pieces that move queenlike.
Scramble. 36 pieces scrambled on the board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sculptures by James Killian Spratt -- Three New Chess Variations. Beautiful chess sets created by a sculptor of three of his own Chess variations plus Jetan.
Seachess. Chess with a marine war theme. (Cells: 128)
Secret Agent Chess. Each player chooses one opposing minor piece to be a secret agent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Secret Bombs Chess. Secret bombs with cards telling you where they are. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Secret Intelligence Chess. A game of secrecy, disinformation, and detection. (8x8, Cells: 64)
The Secret Invisible Pass Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100)
Secret King. A chess variant with 10 Knights, and a Secret King. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Secret Stallmate. Both players win if stalemated, but information is secret and setup is random. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Secutor Chess. The Secutor is a bifurcation piece that must collide and deviate in order to capture (+zrf).
Secutor Chess.
Introducing the Secutor piece, and new collision-capture, on a Gustavian board (zrf available).
Seenschach
. Variant on 10 by 10 board with lake in the middle and new pieces.
Seenschach. Crooked Bishops, Reflecting Bishops, Harvesters and Hornets navigate around a giant central abyss.
Seenschach. Variant on 10 by 10 board with lake in the middle and new pieces. (10x10, Cells: 84)
The Seeping Switchers. An army for Chess with Different Armies based on pieces that change color when they move.
The Seeping Switchers
. An army for Chess with Different Armies based on pieces that change color when they move.
Seeping Switchers - A Chess with Different Armies Variant. Chess with Different Armies variant with Panda, knight wazir, slip queen and a lame bent rider unicorn.
Seikaku Ni Wanai Shogi. Shogi with no strong pieces, but very strong promotions. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Seirawan Chess. invented by GM Yasser Seirawan, a conservative drop chess (zrf available).
Seirawan Chess. FIDE chess, put players have N+R and N+B in hand to drop.
Seirawan Chess. It's Chess with the option to drop some additional pieces on the board. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Seirawan Chess. Play this variant with extra pieces to drop into the game.
Seirawan Chess. Normal rules, except two extra pieces can be introduced: Hawk and Elephant (with zrf).
Seireigi. Variant of standard Shogi with promotable Gold Generals, as well as more varied and animalistic promotions. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Seireigi. Variant of standard Shogi with promotable Gold Generals, as well as more varied and animalistic promotions. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Self Eliminator. You may capture your own units.
Self Eliminator. You are allowed to take your own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Self's three-handed chess. 19th century chess variant for three players. (Cells: 144)
Semedo. Missing description (5x8, Cells: 40)
semisho. Chess, but the left half of the pieces are shogi-based. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sentai Chess. Chess variant inspired by Power Rangers; precursor to Fusion Chess.
Senterej
. Part of a document describing various Historical Chess Variants.
Senterej. Missing description
Sentinel Chess. Instead of queens, players have sentinels who can transform into 8 pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Separate. Queens start trapped behind enemy lines. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Separate. FIDE Chess but with Queens starting trapped behind enemy lines.
Separate
. Queens start trapped behind enemy lines.
Separate Realms Chess
. Pieces capture like normal FIDE pieces, but have limited moves that only take them to part of the board when not capturing.
Separate Realms Chess. Pieces capture like normal FIDE pieces, but have limited moves that only take them to part of the board when not capturing. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Separate Realms Chess. Pieces capture like normal FIDE pieces, but have limited moves that only take them to part of the board when not capturing.
Separate Realms Chess II. A Variant of Separate Realms Chess with standard FIDE King, and more powerful Knights and Queens. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sequence of Fibonacci and Lucas Chess Design Games. Variants based on Fibonacci numbers.
Sequence Of M X N Chess Games. A chess variant for boards of size M by N, for about all pairs of positive integers M, N.
Sergeant. A combination of the Berolina and usual Pawns.
SerPent Chess 50. Pentagonal cells form hexagonal blocks in two ways. (Cells: 50)
Sesqui-dimensional Chess. 1d circular variant where pieces move clockwise, counterclockwise, and *across the center* of the circle.
Seven Knights Chess. Unusual army for Red.
Seventeen Pawns. You can replace opponent's queen by nine pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)
sFhIoDgEi. A variant nesting two different smaller variants within it. (17x17, Cells: 289)
Sha'rah. Missing description (13x13, Cells: 169)
Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. Half-century old hexagonal chess variant from Soviet Union.
Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. I G Shafran's Game on the Game Courier.
Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. Hexagonal variant from the early Soviet Union.
Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. A classic hexagonal variant from Russia.
Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. Play this Hexagonal variant from the Soviet Union on Jocly.
Shahrady. Chess with "passes". (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board.
Shako
. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Shako. Play this Xiangqi-inspired decimal variant on Jocly.
Shako set. Photo of set for the large chess variant Shako.
Shako_Balbo.
Game with Diamond Shape Board.
Shakti. On a 7 by 7 board with disappearing squares. (7x7, Cells: 49)
Shakti. Christian Freeling's simple, elegant game with disappearing squares.
Shamanic Chess. Pieces may be transformed into 'Shamans'.
Shamanic Chess
. Pieces may be transformed into 'Shamans'.
Shambhala chess.
Maybe, it's the misterious first form of chess? Actually, most probably, not. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shanghai Palace Chess. A blend of Chinese, Japanese, and Western Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shanghai Palace Chess
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Shanghai Palace Chess. Play this blend of Chinese, Japanese and Western Chess on Game Courier!
Share Squares. AKA Two's Company; Three's a Crowd.
On ShareDebate International. Online BBS magazine, and software for chinese chess, Korean chess, and for making sets for these games.
Sharp Chess. Drawless Chess with minor victory conditions. (8x8, Cells: 64)
shat2diag2. A tool to make uncheckered chess and fairy / variant chess diagrams.
Shatar. Java applet to play Mongolian Chess.
Shatar. Mongolian chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shatar (Mongolian Chess)
. Part of a document describing various Historical Chess Variants.
Shatar, Old 1 Hia.
Old Shatar with one Hia. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shatra
. Old game from the Altai from Russia, on special shaped board with draughts-like capture.
Shatra. Old game from the Altai from Russia, on special shaped board with draughts-like capture.
Shatra. Old game from the Altai from Russia, on special shaped board with draughts-like capture.
ShatraDev2
. Windows program to play Shatra against the computer.
Shatranj
. Part of a document describing various Historical Chess Variants.
Shatranj. Play this historic predecessor of Chess on Jocly.
Shatranj. Persian chess, ancestral to the Western forms.
Shatranj. The widely played Arabian predecessor of modern chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
Shatranj. The widely played historic Arabian game, predecessor of modern chess. (Recognized!)
Shatranj
. Version with fancy graphics.
Shatranj
. The widely played historic Persian game, predecessor of modern chess.
Shatranj Al-Husun - Citadel Chess. Historical variant of Shatranj.
Shatranj al-Sultan.
Normal Chess + Alibaba , with a Sultanic flavour . (10x8, Cells: 80)
Shatranj Darwinian.
Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shatranj Darwinian. A game that shows the evolution of today's classic pieces. Wazirs and Ferz evolve into modern pieces.
Shatranj Elephants. Two decimal variants: 'Shatranj Elephants' and 'Chaturanga'.
Shatranj Elephants. Shatranj-like game, but with all short-range, limited-capturing pieces.
Shatranj Extended Tournament Scoring (S.E.T.S) Rules. An attempt at an improved scoring system for chess tournaments. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shatranj for Four. 4-handed Shatranj.
Shatranj Kamil. Shatranj Kamil or "Perfect Chess" a historical variant combining alfils, camels rooks and ferz.
Shatranj Kamil (64). Modern Shatranj-based variant with new pieces.
Shatranj Kamil (64). Modern Shatranj based variant on 8 by 8 board with new pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shatranj Kamil I. Large shatranj variant with new piece: camel. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Shatranj Kamil II. Large historic shatranj variant with new piece: dabbabah or war machine. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Shatranj Kamil X.
Shatranj Kamil, with new pieces from Jetan, Shogi and Xiangqi. (10x10, Cells: 100)
Shatranj Kamil X. Shatranj Kamil, now with Chinese Cannons and Padwars (Jetan).
Shatranj of Troy. A Shatranj variant with Shogi-like drops, a Trojan Horse (with 6 pieces inside).
Shatranj of Troy. A Shatranj variant with Shogi-like drops, a Trojan Horse (with 6 pieces inside).
Shatranj of Troy. A Shatranj variant with Shogi-like drops, a Trojan Horse (with 6 pieces inside),. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shatranj Plus. Play four large historical variations of Shatranj including Tamerlane Chess!
Shatranj Problems. Mansubat: Chess Problems of 1001 years ago.
Shatranj With Different Armies. Like Chess with Different Armies, but for Shatranj.
Shatranji. A hybrid of Shatranj and Chessgi. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shatranji. Chessgi with Shatranj pieces.
Shatranjian Dragon Shogi. Shatranjian Shogi with pawn promotes to Dragons and capture revert to pawns.
Shatranjian Dragon Shogi. Shatranjian Shogi with Pawn-to-Dragon promotions- but when captured revert back to pawns. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shatranjian Shogi. Ferz and wazir, dabbaba and elephant offset each other in this new Shatranj drop game.
Shatranjian Shogi. Shatranj with extra pieces from days gone by and with Shogi drops. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shifted Square Chess. One square is removed from the normal playing area and one square is added at the edge of the normal playing area. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shifting Chess. Variant inspired on shifting puzzles; one can move pieces of the board. (8x8, Cells: 56)
Shifting Sands Chess
. Special squares -- which can be dropped and moved -- change the types of pieces that land on them.
Shifting Sands Chess. Special squares -- which can be dropped and moved -- change the types of pieces that land on them. (6x7, Cells: 42)
Shikaar. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 79)
Shinobi Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has droppable Shogi-inspired pieces that start in hand.
Sho Shogi. Historic predecessor of shogi. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Sho Shogi (Little/Small Shogi)
. Part of a document describing various Historical Chess Variants.
Shock Chess. Players are paralyzed from the shock of losing their queen. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shock Troops
. Make a regular move or drop one of two pieces into a vacant space in the back rank.
Shock Troops. System of chess with standard board and pieces, but with new leaping pieces entering during play.
Shock Troops.
The usual chess until the War Knight, Elephant Knight and Ninja Pawns enter the game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shocky. A program that plays Shogi.
Shogchess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99)
Shogessi (The Allday Wars). An original large, multiplayer Chess/Shogi variant.
Shogessi.... A link to the Tabletop Simulator module. Updated rules/graphics. (17x(17x19), Cells: 289)
Shogi
. Westernized version using Alfaerie graphics.
Shogi. Play the Japanese form of Chess, in which captured pieces can be dropped back as your own. (Recognized!)
Shogi. Play the Japanese form of Chess with Jocly.
Shogi. The Japanese form of Chess, in which players get to keep and replay captured pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) (Recognized!)
Shogi 3D. Three dimensional version of Japanese Chess.
Shogi 59. Shogi on half of a 9x12 board. (9x13, Cells: 59)
Shogi : Japan's Game of Strategy. Missing description
Shogi FAQ. Questions and answers about Shogi (Japanese Chess).
Shogi for Beginners. Missing description
Shogi for Chess Players. Introduction to Shogi geared for western chess players.
The Shogi Foundation. Organization selling books on Shogi and a portable shogi set.
Shogi of the Central Madness. The center square is madness! You need card and dice to decide its effect. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shogi Photo. Photo of crafted Shogi set.
Shogi Pieces. Graphics of shogi pieces and symbols.
Shogi Set. Photo's of wooden Shogi (Japanese chess) set.
Shogi set. Photo's of shogi (Japanese chess) set.
Shogi set. Photographs of a Shogi set.
Shogi Variant Program. Home page of a freeware program, that allows humans to play shogi and 11 variants of shogi. (Link.).
Shogi Variant Software. Index of shogi variant software (in Japanese).
Shogi Variants Site. Wikipedia dedicated to Shogi Variants.
Shogi WDA: Alquerque army. Experimental army, supposed to be played against standart Shogi army. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shogi web site. Web site on Shogi and its variants.
Shogi with Cannons. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81)
Shogi with Impassable Kings. A modest fix to Shogi that makes impasses impossible.
Shogi With Pokémons. Pokemons with special powers are added to an otherwise normal shogi board. (11x11, Cells: 121)
Shogi, Mortal Shogi, and Kamikaze Mortal Shogi
. Play Shogi and a couple variants with diminishing pieces.
Shogi, Mortal Shogi, and Kamikaze Mortal Shogi
. Optimized ZRFs for Japanese Chess and some recent variants.
Shogi-of-Chesstonia. 9 x 12 Shogi Variant that includes a Queen and some Modern Shatranj Pieces.
Shogi-of-Chesstonia. 9 x 12 Shogi Variant that includes a Queen and some Modern Shatranj Pieces. (9x12, Cells: 108)
Shogi-set Nearlydouble Variants. Variants using two Shogi sets, minus a second King aside, but with moves adjusted for a large board. (13x12, Cells: 156)
Shogi: Cut-Out Symbolic Shogi Pieces. Make your own Shogi set.
Shogun Chess. Pieces promote and can be dropped, similar to Shogi.
Shoko Shogi. Smaller variant of Hook Shogi on a 13x13 board. (13x13, Cells: 169)
Shoot Chess. Rifle chess with mandatory captures.
Shop for Board Games. Selected board games and board game search results on Amazon.
Shop for Chess Books. Selected Chess books and Chess book search results from Amazon.
Shop for Chess Variants. Chess variant equipment and books from Amazon.
Shop for Games. Selected games and search results for games from Amazon.
SHORANJI. 9 x 10 variant of Six Fortresses Short Range which allows pawns to have an initial 2-step move.
SHORANJI Maximus. 9 x 12 variant of Six Fortresses Short Range. 2-Step pawn initial move option.
Short Leaper Chess.
Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Short Sliders. Pieces are initially limited to 4 spaces (if that), and promote to longer moves. (12x16, Cells: 192)
The short splicers. An experimental chess with different armies army. (8x8, Cells: 64)
The ShortRange Project. Missing description
The ShortRange Project
. Missing description
Shosu Shogi. 10x10 Shogi variant with Queens and more powerful promoted pieces.
Shosu Shogi. 10x10 Shogi variant with Queens and more powerful promoted pieces.
Shou Dou Qi: The Battle of Animals - The Jungle Game. Simulated conflict between animal kingdoms. (7x9, Cells: 63)
Shou Dou Qui. Printable Board and Pieces.
Showdown Chess. No draws permitted. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shoxiang 108. A combination of Shogi and Xiang Qi on a number of ranks divisible by both 2 and 3. (9x12, Cells: 108)
Shrapnel Chess. Nearest units at 45 degree angles from line of capture.
Shrink Chess. The board is shrinking. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Shrink Chess. Emptied rows and columns vanish permanently.
Shrink Chess II. Emptied edge rows and edge columns vanish permanently.
Shuffle Chess 1. Missing description
Shuffle Chess 2. Missing description
Shuffle Chess 3. Missing description
Shuffle Chess 4. Missing description
Shuffle Version Azchess
. Missing description
Shuuro. Large variant where you build your own army. (12x12, Cells: 144)
Siamese Chess. 4 player variant where pieces taken from your opponent are given to your partner. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) (Recognized!)
Siberian Chess. Missing description
Side view chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sideways Hourglass chess. Small variant on 6 by 7 board with two squares punched out. (7x6, Cells: 40)
Siege. Missing description (10x8, Cells: 72)
Siege Chess. Historic chess variant with fortress on cross-shaped board.
Siege chess. A hexagonal three-player chess variant. (Cells: 192)
Sigma 4 Shogi. Missing description (7x7, Cells: 49)
A Silly 42-Squares Board. A Silly 42-squares board with a little Unirexial variant you can play on it. (Cells: 42)
Silver Elephant Chess.
Missing description (10x8, Cells: 80)
Silver General. Shogi piece that moves one square diagonally, or forward.
Simple Marseillais Chess
. Simplified version of Marseillais Chess.
A Simple Proposal. Variant where promotion may occur on the 7th or 8th rank, and may be delayed, but only to captured pieces.
Simpleton's Chess.
This is an even simplier version of Simplified Chess. (7x8, Cells: 56)
Simpleton's Chess Preset. This is an even simplier version of Simplified Chess.
Simplified chess.
Simple subset of the chess rules. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Simplified Chess.
Missing description (8x7, Cells: 56)
Simplified Makpong.
Makruk variant.
Simply XiangQi. Correspondence Chinese Chess (Xiangqi) website.
Simultaneous Chess. A variant of chess where players select moves at same time. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Single check chess. Checking the opponent wins the game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Single Combat Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sino-European Chess
. Missing description
Sino-European Chess.
Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81)
Sinojewish Chess. Hexagonal approximate analogue to Wildeurasian Qi. (13x13, Cells: 127)
Sinyeonsanggi (新演象棋).
I dramatized Sin-yeon-sang-hui (新演象戱), one of the variations of the Joseon Dynasty, in Xiangqi style.
Sir Bombalot. A variant of chess with pieces offering a myriad of different options at any given time.
Sirlin's Chess. Alternative presentation of "Chess 2 - The Sequel". (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sissa.
Move exists of moving a number of squares as rook and an equal number of squares as bishop.
Sissa
. Variant on 9 by 9 board with Sissa's, which move like a Bishop than a Rook, or like a Rook, then a Bishop.
Sissa. Variant on 9 by 9 board with Sissa's. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Sissa Chess. Missing description
Sissa Squad. Army for Chess with Different Armies that features Knight from Coherent Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sittuyin (Burmese Chess)
. Part of a document describing various Historical Chess Variants.
Sittuyin (Burmese Chess). Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
Sittyuin and Makruk. Zillions file to play Burmese Chess and Thai Chess.
Six Fortresses. Capture Fortress to releases free pieces to drop. Imposter Kings will complicate checkmates.
Six Fortresses. Capture Fortress to releases free pieces to drop. Imposter Kings will complicate checkmates. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Six Fortresses Short Range. A variation of Six Fortresses using short-ranged pieces.
Six Fortresses Short Range. A short-range-piece version of Six Fortresses. (9x9, Cells: 81)
Sixteen Pawns. Trade a queen for 8 extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64)
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