Game Courier supports many different games. Here is one picked at random:
Dice Mate Chess - No capture; checkmate only happens if roll of the dice is favorable.

Manchurian Chess

If you had a Java-capable browser, you could play Manchurian Chess here.
Keys "s"=save "l"=load "b"=back once

Yitong Chess is supposedly popular in Manchuria. The lone Red rook can also move as a cannon or a knight.

Hans Bodlaender on Chinese Chess

Hans Bodlaender's Chess Variants
Hans Bodlaender's Chess Applet

Ed's Chess Variants

These are simple illustrations rather than strong opponents.

Bug Reports -- Thank you! Keep them coming!

Written by Ed Friedlander

WWW Page Added: Sunday, December 30, 2001 

/home1/chessvar/public_html/play/erf/Manchuri.html

Credits

Author: Ed Friedlander.

See also

Comments

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This item is a Java program, It belongs to categories: Two dimensional, Oriental, Each player has a different army It is a 2 player game. It was last modified on: 2001-01-01 Author: Ed Friedlander. Manchurian Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90)
2010-04-25NoneImpossible to play as black: too dumb AI: it captures pawn, puting rook under atack on first turn...View [*]
2006-12-23Ed Friedlander Verified as Ed FriedlanderNone

I am really sorry you have been so frustrated. One or the other of us is misunderstanding the rules. It seems to me that the plain sense (the rook can check as rook, cannon, or Chinese knight) does give checkmate in the positions you have diagrammed. Am I wrong? There was a problem a while back with the black king recognizing check from a Chinese knight but it has been fixed.

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2005-01-19Poor

IT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE WHEN RED'S ROOK IS GIVING CHECK AS A HORSE UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE WAY, WHEN IT IS REALLY NOT CHECK!! For example: (Again, only Black's side of the river is shown.)

+-h-+-g-k-g-e-h-+ | | | ||/| | | | +-+-+-+-+-+-*-+-+ | | | |/|| | | | +-c-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | | | | | | | | | p-+-p-+-p-+-p-+-p | | | | | | | | | +-+-+-+-+-+-e-+-+

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2004-09-27None

This position is still given as checkmate (only Black's side of the river is shown): R---N---E---G---K---G---r---+---+ | | | | | / | | | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | / | | | | | +---C---+---+---+---+---+---+---R | | | | | | | | | P---+---P---+---P---+---P---+---P | | | | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ This position was declared checkmate, even though Black can move Black's King up.

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2004-08-10None

It is now failing to recognize Check by a regular Horse. Example: (Red's side of the board is shown; Black pieces are lowercase, Red are capital.) +---+---+---+---+---p---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | P---+---h---r---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | +---+---+---G---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | | / | | | | +---+---+---K---G---+---+---+---+ | | | | / | | | | | +---+---E---+---+---+---+---+---+ Black to move, but Red is in check.

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