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Week ending June 28, 2025

1. Chu Shogi. Historic Japanese favorite, featuring a multi-capturing Lion (12x12, Cells: 144) (Recognized!) Author: H. G. Muller.

Week ending June 21, 2025

1. The crushing conquerers. another experimental chess with different armies army. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Maxson.
2. Fearful fairies. Linkfix (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
3. super splicers. another army for chess with different armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Maxson.
4. The Starbound Sliders. ??? By Andrew L Smith.
5. The short splicers. An experimental chess with different armies army. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Maxson.
6. The Marvellous Megafauna. A diverse Chess with Different Armies faction with riders and leapers. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andrew L Smith.
7. Drunken Nights. Updated links (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
8. Sai squad. Fixt flaw in the original game as suggested by Chris Chradle (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
9. Chu Shogi Applet. An applet for playing Chu Shogi, based on the DHTML Chu Shogi Board. (12x12, Cells: 144) By A. M. DeWitt.
10. Kyoto Shogi. Modern 5x5 Shogi variant where pieces promote and unpromote with every move. (5x5, Cells: 25) By A. M. DeWitt.
11. Modern Random Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By Jose Carrillo.
12. Modern Prime Ministers Random Chess. Missing description (9x8, Cells: 72) By Jose Carrillo.
13. Modern Prime-Ministers Chess. Missing description (9x8, Cells: 72) By Jose Carrillo.
14. Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves. By H. G. Muller.

Week ending June 14, 2025

1. MonadChess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
2. Index N to Man and Beast. Unmarked as update By Charles Gilman.
3. Ecutunnel and Ecumillstone. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (4x(4x12), Cells: 192) By Charles Gilman.
4. 10x8 Variants. Missing description By Jose Carrillo.
5. mir chess II. a variant of mir chess with same piece strength. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Maxson.
6. Minixiang. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (5x6, Cells: 30) By Charles Gilman.
7. Ministers Chess. Commercial variant on a 9x9 board with an extra Queen (called a Minister). Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: Michael Corinthios.
8. Courier Chess Moderno. A modern variant of the historical variant Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Jose Carrillo.
9. Mini Courier Chess Moderno. Missing description (10x8, Cells: 80) By Jose Carrillo.
10. Ajax Chess. All pieces can move one square in any direction, the Mastodon leaper complements the Knight (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jose Carrillo.
11. MightyChess. Capablanca Chess, but stronger pieces. By James Zuercher.
12. Beautiful Beasts. A new team for Chess with Different Armies based on the Roc. By Jörg Knappen.
13. Quadruple Besiege Chess. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (Cells: 128) By Charles Gilman.
14. A History of Chess. In depth reference book on the history of chess. Author: H.J.R. Murray and Fergus Duniho.
15. 3 Strikes Chess. Corrected links. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
16. Maha Chatukanga. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Gilman.
17. Gilman's Modest Variants. Actually it's Modest variants updated. Two new ones and reordering of earlier additions. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
18. The magic mashers. another experimental chess with different armies variant. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Maxson.
19. Index A to Man and Beast. Unsatisfactory pieces stripped out By Charles Gilman.
20. Knavish Shatranj. Shatranj with Knaves and Debtors. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
21. Shako. another kind of non-conformism and utopia (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux and Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
22. Null chess. Capture squares are destroyed when vacated. Author: Ben M Reiniger. Inventor: Philip M. Cohen.

Week ending June 07, 2025

1. Not-so colorbound cylindrical chess. Game only with pieces, that would be colorbound on normal board. (7x8, Cells: 56) By Daniil Frolov.
2. Noble WingS Chess. Noble Wing - with twice as many variant pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mark Simpson.
3. Noble Wing Chess. Chess with extra move - but not take options (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mark Simpson.
4. Nearlydouble Wildebeest. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (15x14, Cells: 210) By Charles Gilman.
5. Nimrod Chess. Movement diagrams added (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
6. new age chess. a game played with the same board and set but with different rules. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Andy Maxson.
7. Nearlydouble Chess. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (11x11, Cells: 121) By Charles Gilman.
8. Near vs Normal Chess. This version pits pieces of Near Chess vs those of normal chess (FIDE). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rich Hutnik.
9. Near Chess. This is a variant of Skirmish Chess designed to be friendlier to newbies (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rich Hutnik.
10. Nach Schach. Updated (8x7, Cells: 56) By Jianying Ji.
11. Overyang. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (11x13, Cells: 143) By Charles Gilman.
12. Overkill Ecumenical Chess. Array diagram converted to new-style virtual single image (9x10, Cells: 90) By Charles Gilman.
13. Overkill Chess. Reference to the redundant 3 to the 5 removed. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
14. Orthodia. Break your orthogonal and diagonal patterns! (Two versions). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.
15. Orda Mirror. Symmetric battle using the Horde armies from Orda Chess. By Daniel Lee.
16. Orda Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like knights but capture differently. By Daniel Lee.

Week ending May 31, 2025

1. Chak. A modern vision of what a Mayan chess would look like. By Daniel Lee.
2. Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against. By H. G. Muller.

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