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SELECT * FROM `Item` LEFT JOIN `IndexEntry` USING (ItemID) WHERE `YearInvented` = '2001' AND `IsHidden` = 0 AND `Item`.`IsDeleted` = 0 AND `Language` = 'English' ORDER BY `LinkText`, `Item`.`Summary` ASC LIMIT 500 OFFSET 0
21st Century Chess. Missing description Author: Nick Wolff.
Arimaa
. Uses same equipment as Chess, but designed to be difficult for computers. By Omar Syed and Aamir Syed.
- Assimilation Chess. Increase your material by assimilating your opponent's pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
- Assimilation Chess. Play this variant in which pieces assimilate the powers of captured pieces. By Fergus Duniho.
Basic Chess. Variable baseline chess without drawing lots. Restrict Rooks to a and h files, and King to d or e files. By Charles Daniel.
Benedict Chess 
. Instead of being captured, enemy pieces switch sides. By Dan Troyka.
- Benedict Chess. Instead of being captured, enemy pieces switch sides. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Dan Troyka.
- Beyond Chess (tm). Commercial variant with dynamic board. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: David Crockett.
- Big Chess. Ordinary chess pieces on an elongated 8 x 14 board with three times as many bishops and two times as many knights. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
- Boolean Rithmomachia. Missing description (4x(4x4), Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
- Cannons and Crabs. Small board, cannons (alibaba-guards) and some centralized crabs (sergeant pawns) - promotion only to cardinal or marshall... Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
- ChesK: Risk and Chess Combination
. A combination of the classic chess and Risk. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Khalid Waheed.
- Chess 68. FIDE Chess with setup inspired by Omega Chess, to allow two modest new corner pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Chess Cubed. Played within a 4x4x4 cube. By Larry L. Smith.
- Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. On a 10 row by 8 column board, with three new pieces. (8x10, Cells: 80) By David Howe.
- Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. Play this 8x10 game with three new pieces. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: David Howe.
- Chessence of Jim Winslow. Movement is dictated by relation to friendly pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Winslow.
- Double Diamond. Pieces start diagonally across from one another and pawns move diagonally. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
- Dragon Chess (tm). Commercial board game played on a large board with a new piece -- the Dragon. By Lex Parker.
- Fair-Chess. A chess variant to play with handicaps for different ratings. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Janevert Kaan.
- Fair-Chess . A chess variant to play with handicaps for different ratings. By Janevert Kaan.
- Falcon Chess 100. Falcon Chess played on an expanded board of a 100 squares with special Pawn rules. (12x10, Cells: 100) By George William Duke.
- Fifo Chess. Multiple Occupier game where rule is that first one there is first one to be captured and to leave. "First In, First Out". Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Game Courier. Web-based system for playing many different variants by email or in real-time. By Fergus Duniho.
Game Courier History. History of the Chess Variants Game Courier PBM system. By Fergus Duniho.
- Gigachess. With 20 different pieces on a 14 x 14 board, this is the latest in a sequence from Shako to Tamerlane II to Perfect 12. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Gigachess. Play this large 14x14 variant on Jocly. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux and Jérôme Choain. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Gigachess. On 14 by 14 board with 20 different pieces. (14x14, Cells: 196) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Half Chess of Ralph Betza. Exactly like halfling chess, only the knights are replaced by crabs, making them more compatible with half moving rider pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Hex Shogi 81. A hexagonal Shogi variant on an 81-space board. By Fergus Duniho.
Hive: A Review. A review of the two-player strategy game called Hive. Author: David Howe.
- Invasion. A military inspired Chess variant played on an 84-squares board. (10x10, Cells: 84) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Ki Shogi. Variant of Shogi played without a board, and pieces are cubes. By Larry L. Smith.
- Ki Shogi. Variant of Shogi played without a board, and pieces are cubes. By Larry L. Smith.
- Knight Court Chess. When you take an opponent's piece, he gets to drop it back on the board. Object: Checkmate knight. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Mad Elephant Chess. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
- Modest Proposals. An Introduction to Modest variants. By Tony Paletta.
- Mortal Chessgi. Play this Chessgi variant in which each capture decreases material. By Fergus Duniho.
- Mortal Chessgi. A Chessgi game in which captures reduce material. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
- Paletta's Modest ARRAY variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Paletta.
- Paletta's Modest CAPTURE RULE variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Paletta.
- Paletta's Modest GOAL variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Paletta.
- Paletta's Modest MOVEMENT RULE variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Paletta.
- Paletta's Modest PAWN variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Paletta.
- Paletta's Modest PIECE variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Paletta.
- Paletta's Modest TURN variants. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Paletta.
Repatriation Chess. Pairs of captured units are returned to the board. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Tony Paletta.
- Shatranji. Chessgi with Shatranj pieces. By Fergus Duniho.
- Shatranji. A hybrid of Shatranj and Chessgi. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
- Skirmish Chess. Tony Paletta Modest proposal as separate link for discussion. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Rich Hutnik. Inventor: Tony Paletta.
- Stones and Relays. Pieces get to re-originate from neutral relay squares they attack. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
- Take Over Chess. Jump across pieces to take them over from your opponent. Author: Tony Quintanilla and Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
- Takeover Chess Play-By-Mail game. Examine this game played in the Invent and Play contest! Drawn. Author: Peter Aronson and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
- Thunder Chess. Play this hybrid of Fusion, Assimilation, and Metamorph Chess. By Fergus Duniho.
- Thunder Chess. A hybrid of Metamorph Chess, Fusion Chess, and Assimilation Chess. (64x(8x8)) By Fergus Duniho.
- Tim's 3D Chess. On a 5x5x5 board with two kings per player. Author: Kevin Pacey. Inventor: Tim O'Lena.
- The Toddler. Large variant with powerful pieces and an intricate net of protections. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Jean-Yves Boulay.
- The Toddler. Large variant with powerful pieces and an intricate net of protections. (11x11, Cells: 121) By Jean-Yves Boulay.
- Torus Chess. Besiege Chess re-visualized, specifically as Torus Chess. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Two Kingdoms . A decimal variant with a more powerful knight, and an added Archer piece. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Nuno Cruz.
- Unicorn Great Chess. Lions have been added to Unicorn Chess! (10x10, Cells: 100) By David Paulowich.
XieXie . Xiangqi Computer Program XieXieMaster 1.0.10 released! and Eugenio Castillo.
- Yáng Qí. Westernized adaptation of Chinese Chess. By Fergus Duniho.
- Yáng Qí. Yankee ingenuity adds new power to Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) By Fergus Duniho.
Zag-Zag. Piece moves vertically or along ne-sw diagonal. By Derek Nalls.
- Zag-Zig. Piece moves vertically or along nw-se diagonal. By Derek Nalls.
- Zig-Zag. Piece moves horizontally or along ne-sw diagonal. By Derek Nalls.
- Zig-Zig. Piece moves horizontally or along nw-se diagonal. By Derek Nalls.