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Jupiter. Huge chess variant on 16 by 16 board. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]how does the rankrider and go along move forward, or promote?
Exotic Pieces. Menagerie of pieces, old and new. Have fun![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]why don't you add the piece from ganymede chess the wall to your applett
Arena Chess 42. A non-competing entry in the 42 Squares contest. (Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the short rook and short bishop are much too weak in comparison to the knight
Jupiter. Huge chess variant on 16 by 16 board. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the hawklet is too powerful according to your criteria to be a starting piece
Gigachess. On 14 by 14 board with 20 different pieces. (14x14, Cells: 196) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The rook knight compound does not appear in omega chess you must have confused with the champion of omega chess which jumps to the second diagonal square or jumps to the second orthogonal or moves one orthogonally. Not the rook knight compound under the same name
Brouhaha. Like Chess, but it really brings the ruckus! (8x8, Cells: 72) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]How about you make even another brouhaha variant in which your bishop dabbaba piece the cleric is replaced with the abbot which jumps to the second diagonal case or moves to the first diagonal case, or jumps exactly two orthogonally. It would still reach only half but reduces some of the favor people would have with this ove the bishop this also camfrom ralph betza's classic chess with different armies but i think this introduces another leaper the alfil so now all the new pieces will not copy orthodox moves and people won't favor the cleric over the bishop. Why not call it ruckus?
Mid-Evil Chess. A mid point between chess and shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]i am thinking of a new game name i but i can't think of any other names at this time thanks for visiting though. And, by the way please call me andy
Recognized Chess Variants. Index page listing the variants we feel are most significant. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I think you should add maharajah and the sepoys to the the list of recognized variants
TamerSpiel. Modern large chess variant with elements of historic chess variants. (12x8, Cells: 84) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]can tetrachs move into check then swap out?
Dragon Horse. Moves as Bishop or Wazir.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]there are two kinds of crowned radial linepieces in the second dimension king which moves like a rook or one diagonally or the dragon horse moves as bishop or one orthogonally. in the third dimension the crowned line pieces gain the the third dimensional direction move and now in the third dimension there is the dragon unicorn which either slides triagonally or moves as a three dimensional king
Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]in hexagonal chess the army the color cound clobberers would be a misnomer beacause none of the pieces are colorbound! So you would have to give it a new name how about the bishop bashers?
The Fighting Fizzies. An Experimental Army for Chess with Different Armies.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]you're bishop is too strong! how about having either a two square bishop plus crab or four square bishop plus lame barc or crab barc would probably be better being weaker than a crab after all the meticulous masher's bishop was a four square bishop plus lame dabbaba so this should be mid strength but then again if you had the four square bishop plus lame crab the army would be devoid of leapers
Airplane Chess. Airplanes move as queens any distance, capturing by landing just beyond an enemy unit.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I love this game it incorporates chancellors, cardinals, and airplanes which capture by amethod other than displacement so that they can ignore protected pieces and pieces cannot be directly protected :-) but can airplanes jump friendly units? any way it is one of my favorite games
Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]new army idea: swift splicers bishop: the deacon moves as a four square bishop plus spacious wazir rook; the fourfer from the meticulous mashers the fourfer a four square rook plus ferz knight; the waffle alfil plus wazir queen the general a four square queen plus two square crab rider or an alternate queen the admiral: a four square queen plus two square chinese rider
The Seeping Switchers. An army for Chess with Different Armies based on pieces that change color when they move.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]isn't the your bishop a little powerful? how about making the unicorn completely lame and making it unable to make a knight move
Maxima. Maxima is an interesting and exiting variant of Ultima, with new elements that make Maxima more clear and dynamic. (Cells: 76) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This game sounds really fun! the guards make it very dynamic and exciting along with the wizard it's like ultima meets thronschach meets rennchess. I at first actually hated ultima! but when i started liking it i then favored rococo as an alternative ultima. and then i favored maxima now i like both of them. its like a father having two sons that do not get along. beacause rococo goes ont hte similar ways of moving but different ways of capturing path where as maxima goes down the optimizing ultima. but it has however lost on thing that ultima had the similar ways of moving. but i like the displacing pieces. and tha the king can move as a knight that treats the bord as if it was cylindrically and the mage moving as the griffon but what about tthe bottom squares how do those figure in with the cylinder. This decreases the vulnerability of the king opposed to other royal knights and the bare king rule is also very interesting and you can not fortresed as in orthodox chess. but what about stalemate? is that a win? anyway it is ALMOST completely drawless
Airplane Chess. Airplanes move as queens any distance, capturing by landing just beyond an enemy unit.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Rutland's Chess. 14x10 version.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]i really like this game it has crowned rooks and chancellors (concubines) on a 14 by 10 board. i also enjoy the pice variety and it feels like the rutland rooks hold everything together bridging the gap between the rooks and the queens. and it feels like now the knights are more like pawns and as chess was a battle this is war! i love especially the stalemate loses for the mating player. and it also feels as if someone was careless enough they chould be punished and lose beacause stalemate is not a draw. but i also think though they should add in crowned bishops but never mind though the new pieces favor orthogonal moves. Maybe there could be an even bigger variant with crowned knights rutland's chess pieces and cardinals. do the rooks promote to crowned rooks?
Exotic Pieces. Menagerie of pieces, old and new. Have fun![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I love this applett it has some really cool pieces check out the duke! where did you get your piece set though beacause i saw them on the european chess entry but however when i look at it i am shown this applett is there a way to get the pictures because I really like them
Renniassance Chess. With 68 pieces on board of 12 by 12. (12x10, Cells: 120) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]i love this game. it has so many strong pieces. I think i have actually won a game. the cavalier reduces the gryphon's blockability. the duke does moreso with the aanca. The foxes defend the king well. If the pawn underpromotes to fox and it reaches the end rank does it become a guard. the general threatens mat however which makes it very strong. if you combined all of the pieces in rennchess it would control three ranks and files, move as a camel, squirrel,l duke, bishop, cavalier, and rook and would be worth three queens now imagine if there were korean lions (moves as a queen but must jump a piece in order to move) and nightriders in the game the yitong (a unifucation of all pieces in the game into one) would now be worth as musch as FOUR queens. i think thi monter of a piece a unifucation of all rennchess pieces would be able check mate a king by itself! without the edge of the board and it wouldn't be very hard to either. and with the lion move (korean lion) interpositon would be useless. Also, this piece i think could checkmate a QUEEN by itself i think. and if it was in the center of an empty 7 by 7 board it would reach every square
Airplane Chess. Airplanes move as queens any distance, capturing by landing just beyond an enemy unit.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]how is an airplane estimated to be worth? Great idea putting knights in the center of the setup it makes it so the the knights get to the action quicker. by the way did you ever market this commercially?
Sultan's Elephant Chess. Pieces can group together in fours to form giant pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this game must be fun, once you memorized all the moves!
you have made a mistake! Charles, you said the sultans elepnant move on a 16 by 16 board corresponds to a wazir on an 8 by 8 board it should correspond to a ferz on a 16 by 16 board
Mir Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]could mir chess 36 fight in chess with different armies? it would be interesting To see them against the colorbound clobberers or the remarkable rookies though their setup wouldn't add any thing to their army unlike in regular mir 36 beacause it is specifically oriented about the opponent's cannons but against chess with different armies it would become pretty obsolete unless against against an experimental army with cannons like the spacious cannoneers. the queen is weak but I don't know about their cannons they would definately help. and since the cannons are worth about half a bishop two would be a bishop's worth so i think it would work with the queen being worth a rook. and the elephants are worth about a bishop maybe less and the cannons may be more it should balance out,
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]how about mir chess 32 with different armies?
Caïssa Britannia. British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]T.R. Dawson didn't invent the leo. You must be confused with the grasshopper
Helmsman Chess
. Introducing the Helmsman and the bounce-move, whereby the piece deviates orthogonally. A very positional piece (zrf available).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Isn't the helmsman the same as the murmillo?
Rookheavy Chess and Bishopheavy Chess. combining elements of Lilliputian Chess, Isis, Mongolian Chess, and crooked linepieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This game is really fun to play and the crowned linepiece queen an interesting idea. but why have marshalls in bishopheavy chess and cardinals in rookheavy chess This is by far the one of the easiest to understand and most interesting of your new games. I however prefer ryuma or dragon horse for primate and ryou or dragon king for chatelaine mainly i'm not much of an english terminologist. Anyway this is readily accessable for me I have tried both games and loved them both however. even though rookheavy seems the more powerful game none of the pieces are worth more than a queen!
Isis and Cam. Two variants based on ancient English universities and the rivers near them. (6x8, Cells: 48) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]your frog is an example of an amphibian which is a compound of two pieces which has more range than it's components. another example would be the governor a compound of of the raumschach unicorn and bishop. even another would be the silver general a compound of japanese pawn or as you call it, the point and ferz. maybe you should make an article on amphibians!
The Clash of Civilizations Chess (Shuffle Version). Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This game looks really cool so does clash of civilizations chess and all it's variants. how about airplane chess? there is a reasonably weak applet to play it on ed friedlander's site or here. And by the way, Jeremy the cobra moves as a rook it is more vunerable than the wall of ganymede chess but has more capture power. Another piece which is related to it is the dev from koksal karakus' giant chess which moves as a wazir but all squares must be threatened for it to be captured. another are sultans pieces from charles gilman's sultans elephant chess but cannot move to part full super squares
Idaidakama Shogi. Like Maka-Dai-Dai with drops and new pieces. (19x19, Cells: 361) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Quinquereme Chess. Large variant with a new piece, the Quinquereme. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This game looks really cool! The only thing cooler would be adding squirrels behind rooks and adding quang trung rooks and shifting the setup one rank forwards so there would still be redeployment space. The squirrels would add more leaping power and the quang trung rooks which capture by leaping over a piece as in checkers but quang trung rooks can only capture one piece in a move. The quang trung rooks could ignore defended pieces and would make the game more interesting. The quang trung rooks would be below zebras. There could also be renn cavaliers below quintesences but that would be wishful thinking
Separate. Queens start trapped behind enemy lines. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]sure! im up for a challenge but i don't have zillions
Samarcanda. Variant of Mideast Chess with Crooked Bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this looks interesting with crooked bishops replacing the monstrous cavaliers.However the crooked bishop's move is not related to any sort of mideastern piece, the cavalier was related to the well known gryphon. Maybe you could add renn cavaliers instead of the mideast cavaliers and guards a fusion of the ferz and wazir or maybe replace the queen with the mideast cavalier or as ed friedlander calls it the godzilla and and replace the godzillas that flank the king and queen with queens. maybe this variant i propose could face hawaiian chess
Omega Chess. Rules for commercial chess variant on board with 104 squares. (12x12, Cells: 104) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Though the corner squares may appeal aesthetically the take away lots of the rooks power. How about taking away the corner squares and just adding squares behind the champions? Or maybe next to them?
HyperModern Shatranj. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The elephant can reach half the squares on the board. how about replacing elephants with waffles an the sliding general with a panther which moves 1 or two squares in any direction but cannot jump
Where i got the panther name was the exotic pieces applet. I like the waffle beacause it is not colorbound so the game flows quicklier. This game might actually be on par with chess it is just a little to weak so maybe if there was an added weak piece it could battle chess. But anyway shatranj variants are really interesting to me
Leap Chess. Game with mandatory captures and other Checkers-like elements on a board of 44 squares. (6x8, Cells: 44) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I am actually working on a variant like this called leapers chess which replaces rooks with wooden rooks, bishops with wooden bishops, and the queen with a centaur which moves as a nonroyal king or as a knight. I am actually writing an entry for it right now!
Wormhole Chess. When a piece leaves a square, it `folds' together. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This game looks interesting but isnt the queen as strong as the rooks?
What I meant was isn't your rook substitute as strong as your queen substitute?
Centennial Chess. 10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This game looks really interesting along with millenial chess I have actually thought of a game like this on ten by ten board with the orthochess setup pused one rank forwards so the pawns would not move differntly and adding camels. stewards, quang trung rooks and nonroyal kings
About Game Courier. Web-based system for playing many different variants by email or in real-time.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Are members allowed to make presets? If so how do yo make one?
Separate Realms. 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) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]how about an alternate rook which moves sideways as a dabbaba rider and forwards and backwards as a rook and an alternate bishop that moves as an alfilrider parralel to the long diagonal and as a bishop parrallel to the short diagonal? these bout hav interesting types of colorboundness as the rook cannot reach adjacent files and the bishop cannot reach adjacent same colored diagonals. these pieces would capture as there orthochess counterparts
Immobilizer. Pieces standing near an immobilizer may not move.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this piece looks intersting but has little mobility when immobilizing I have invented a piece, the basilisk which moves as a queen cannot capture, but immobilizes pieces a knight's move away.
Brigadier Chess. Introducing the powerful Brigadier piece on a 68-square Gustavian board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this is an interesting break from the same ol, amazon, this should be of the sam value and would be a intersting to see fighting the amazon what would be even cooler would be a queen plus korean lion
the brigadier has more in common with optima's dauphin than optima's general atually the brigadier is the same as optima's dauphin
Gastrophete Chess. Introducing the Gastrophete, a catapult capable of hurling other pieces over its head (zrf exists).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]what's the difference between the turret, belfry, mangonel, oxybeles, gastophette, and trebuchet?
Brigadier Chess. Introducing the powerful Brigadier piece on a 68-square Gustavian board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the brigadier was also featured in christine bagely jone's zhou xia as destroyer queen
Taikyoku Shogi. Extremely large shogi variant. (36x36, Cells: 1296) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]there is a flash version of this game for all of you who would like to play http://taikyokushogi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/taikyoku.html the site is in japanes and doesn't recognize check maybe you could add it on as a link
Generic Chess Piece Creation System. This is a system for construction of pieces, using ideas from
RPG games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the elephant alfil plus dabbaba is actually 1/4 bound. and isn't the zebra and antelope weaker than the knight? they are more akward. how about a hopper category? lot's of these pieces come from works of lim ther peng or adrian king
i really like bug board cv's and am actually building one that is based off hawaian chess and mideast chess and centennial chess
Macrochess. Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this game looks fun but how about merging the wazirs, ferzes, alfils, and dabbabaa into a squire? or maybe just having murray lions instead?
Heavy Gravity Chess. Chess with heavy gravity, Knights can't jump, Queens, Bishops, and Rooks are limited to 4 spaces per move, Kings move 1 diagonal. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the old monkey-king is also more able to retreat than move forwards.
fortress chess sounds good 100x100 sounds retarded, how will you pl,ay it you will need a gigantic game courier preset or a bike (or segway) to get from one end of the board to the other
fortress chess sounds good 100x100 sounds retarded, how will you pl,ay it you will need a gigantic game courier preset or a bike (or segway) to get from one end of the board to the other
Index page of The Chess Variant Pages. Our main index page.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]the user submitted work thing is great but however i have an idea in which you could enter a game idea and then other users could review it and make suggestions, but not changes this would make the site quicker maybe you could have an idea where someone enters a game idea and others enter more ideas for that game so it would multiple authors and everyone who was a contributor could help with the game.
how bout the reverso-cannon? which moves as korean cannon without caoture and captures as rook?
Stallmate Chess. Both players win or both players loose. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this game's end might be a bit dull, but world peace begins at home!
FallingSnow 
. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this game might be neat with all the super pieces, however, it gets boring with all the displacers so i have my own super pieces, Imperial lion: moves as queen or lion. Stampede: moves as zebrarider, camerider, or knightrider, teaching king: moves as queen or 3-step lion: can make three consecutive king moves can jump over occupied squares when doing this. Dreagon moves as queen to empty squares one square moves take all adjacent enemy pieces destroyer: moves rook cannon or quang trung rook. imperial dragon: moves as king, ski queen (as queen but must go at least two squares may jump first and continue in same direction though) or quang trung rook. pushme pullyu moves as queen but takes by approach and withdrawal. Longleaper as queen but captures as in draughts. Bomber as queen but captures by landing just beyond pieces it may jump a continuous line of enemy pieces and capture all in that line cannot jump unconnected enemy pieces the reverse of the style of jumping the longleaper uses to capture. Though i admire your idea, try more pieces that can capture in different ways.
Chogi. A step further further to shogi from chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]See. neither chess nor shogi has nonroyal kings maybe they can promote to goldrooks
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