Chess variants comprise a family of strategy board games that are related to, inspired by, or similar enough to the game we today call Chess
. The game we commonly know today was based on earlier games, most immediately the Arabian game of Shatranj , itself descended from the Indian game of Chaturanga . Besides its direct ancestors, Chess has many cousins, the most popular being Shogi
(in Japan), Xiangqi
(in China), and Janggi
(in Korea). The modern game of Chess has also inspired countless variants. Some have been created by Chess champions seeking new challenges. Some have been created by entrepreneurs who have provided commercial sets. Some have been created for fairy Chess problems without any intent of actually playing them. And most have been designed by creative people who like to try out new pieces, new rules, or new ideas.
This site seeks to catalog the vast number of Chess variants created throughout history, as well as to nurture the creation of new variants. Thanks to computers and the internet, it is now easier to play new Chess variants than ever before. We have benefited from Zillions-of-Games , which has allowed us to program and play numerous Chess variants against the computer. And we offer Game Courier , which enables you to play numerous Chess variants against others online, including new games of your own invention. This time in history is a renaissance for Chess variants, and this site is here to share this renaissance with the world.
On these pages - What's
new? - Contributors - Alphabetical index -
How
you can help - Awards - Recognized Chess
Variants - Play! - Comments
1: /home1/chessvar/public_html/ 2: /home1/chessvar/public_html/index.html Credits
Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and David Howe. See also
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 Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. |
| 2013-04-09 | Ben Reiniger  | None | Yes, that image comes from this page, which is linked to from the Raumschach page. | View [*] | | 2013-04-09 | Daniil Frolov | None | http://i.imgur.com/lDJYHEy.jpg?1
It's not Raumschach on this picture. :D
Of course, if it's not supposed to be 8x8x8 array Maack first experimented with. | View [*] | | 2012-05-28 | Lu Ken  | Poor | Seems pretty difficult to submit new ideas to this website...you have to be a registered member to have the privilege of submitting new variants, piece articles etc. And as I'm not allowed to register (Johnny Luken, permanently rejects my temp password) that options off the table. I have ideas for variants, and piece types but where do I send it? I tried the chessvar@yahoo.com to help me with my failed registration, but got no response. Does it even work? What happens if I submit content to this address? Does it show up? Do I get credit for it? All the new content is just from a select few of existing and longstanding members. What about everyone else? | View [*] | | 2012-05-13 | Fergus Duniho | None | If you want to customize the contents of the What's New page to your specific interests, you can use the form at the bottom of the What's New page. | View [*] | | 2012-05-12 | Mark Thompson | None | Here's another suggestion, related to the new comment filtering idea: perhaps registered users could set a default filter on the What's New items we want to see, according to various qualities (creation date, game features, authorship, etc.) so we could focus on the pages we find interesting. | View [*] | | Number of ratings: 26, Average rating: Excellent, Number of comments: 155 |
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