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Week ending January 06, 2024

1. Mathematichess. A chess variant specially designed for mathematicians. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Florin Lupusoru.
2. Hannibal Chess with Gryphon and Falcon. Expansion for hannibal chess. (10x9, Cells: 90) By Aurelian Florea.
3. Dai Seireigi. Variant of Dai Shogi playable with drops. (15x15, Cells: 225) By A. M. DeWitt.

Week ending December 30, 2023

1. Circular Capa Chess. Play circular chess with added archbishops and chancellors on a 5x16 round board. (5x16, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
2. Conquer II. The goal of the game is to conquer the opponent's army and to add it to your own army. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.
3. Compound Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Sergeant pawns & armies of compound pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
4. Gamma2 Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Berolina Pawns & special Ship & Archer pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.

Week ending December 23, 2023

1. Dragon Wars. Multiple types of Dragon duke it out. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Bob Greenwade.
2. WAD Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with WADs (Champions) added. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
3. Thunderstruck Server Chess. {This game seems broken…}. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Lev Grigoriev.
4. Chess with magical connections. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Aleksandr Kostin.
5. Icon Clearinghouse 5. Part 5 has pieces that don't neatly fit into other categories. By Bob Greenwade.
6. Camel Decimal Chess. Decimal Chess with Camel. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending December 16, 2023

1. Chess on a Tesseract. Chess played over the 24 two-dimensional sides of a tesseract. (24x(5x5), Cells: 504) By Bob Greenwade.
2. Trojan chess. the rules for the knight piece have been changed. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Piotr Smagacz.
3. Chess Variants Query. More options for searching in these pages. By (zzo38) A. Black.
4. Spell Chess. A limited supply of freeze and jump spells allow you to hinder the opponent or get extra moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: H. G. Muller.
5. Ghost King Chess. The king can roam the board as an almost unkillable ghost. (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
6. Ballista Chess. game in which Ballistae give Pieces the ability to move across the Board. (9x8, Cells: 72) By NeodymiumPhyte.
7. Flipping Xiangqi. Hybrid of Xiangqi & Kyoto Shogi – flip the pieces after each turn. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Lev Grigoriev.
8. Rotary Chess. Featuring rotary counterparts of existing (and generally familiar) pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Bob Greenwade.
9. Cavalry Queen Chess. Queen rides a horse and therefore it passively moves as Knight (but captures as usual). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.

Week ending December 09, 2023

1. Icon Clearinghouse 4. Part four focuses on enhanced and limited orthodox pieces. By Bob Greenwade.
2. Grant Acedrex. Medieval large chess variant according to recent historians's work. (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
3. Grant Acedrex. Game Courier preset for Grant Acedrex with enforced rules. (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux and Daniel Zacharias.
4. Secret King. A chess variant with 10 Knights, and a Secret King. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Florin Lupusoru.

Week ending December 02, 2023

1. Shatranj of Troy. A Shatranj variant with Shogi-like drops, a Trojan Horse (with 6 pieces inside),. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gary K. Gifford.
2. Vanguard Chess. Game Courier preset for Vanguard Chess. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Bob Greenwade.

Week ending November 25, 2023

1. FOOD FIGHT!!!. Besides a Royal Chef, all the pieces are named after food items. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Bob Greenwade.
2. Snake vs. Mongoose. White is supplemented by Mongooses, while Black has Snakes. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Bob Greenwade.
3. Bob Greenwade's SVG Library. A collection of SVG piece images. By Bob Greenwade.
4. Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color. By H. G. Muller.
5. Chess. The most popular of Chess variants, Chess itself. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho.

Week ending November 18, 2023

1. Piece Graphics Library by Jean-Louis Cazaux. Collection of piece graphics, specially made for use in Zillions-of-Games, by J.-L.Cazaux. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
2. Vivarta Chess. he rules are simple. Each piece automatically transforms into a different piece every time it moves. Pawns transform into Knig. By Вадря Покштя.
3. Complicacious Chess. Variant in which Chess piece change type. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
4. Camel Decimal Chess. Game Courier preset for Camel Decimal Chess, a 10x10 chess with Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
5. OctaChess Tournament. Chess with eight different armies with four classic and four modern chess variants. By Albert Lee.
6. Sinyeonsanggi (新演象棋). I dramatized Sin-yeon-sang-hui (新演象戱), one of the variations of the Joseon Dynasty, in Xiangqi style. By Daphne Snowmoon.
7. Modern Kamil. Game Courier preset for Modern Kamil, a game from Nuno Cruz with Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
8. PlayStrategy. Free site with open source code which lets you play several famous abstract board games. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.
9. Dai Seireigi. Variant of Dai Shogi playable with drops. (15x15, Cells: 225) By A. M. DeWitt.

Week ending November 11, 2023

1. Kings castle. Crack the castle - Lancer to the front. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.

Week ending November 04, 2023

1. Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) By A. M. DeWitt.
2. Queenmania. A game with 11 queens and enhanced pawns. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Gerd P. Degens.
3. Pattern Chess. Use and overcome the pattern. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.

Week ending October 28, 2023

1. Chess on the Rope. 1d chess experimental variant with standard rules and variations. (1x21, Cells: 21) By Lev Grigoriev.
2. Dovecote Chess. One small non-rules tweak generally changes the character and pace of gameplay. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.
3. ChessBreakTimes Chess. Chess with elements of chess-based RPG I slowly elaborate at this time. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.
4. LOCKING CHESS. Play chess in a new way with pieces superimposing and moving over each other, special moves, strategies, tactics and checkmates! (8x8, Cells: 64) By LUCIANO IMOTO.
5. Wedgie Chess. A triangular starting area on a rectangular board. (9x12, Cells: 68) By Bob Greenwade.
6. Hundred Acre Chess. Chess based on Winnie-the-Pooh. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Bob Greenwade.
7. A Friendly Game of Chess. Each side has Friends, and several odd pieces. Insanity ensues. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Bob Greenwade.
8. Queens. A game with 7 queens and no pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.
9. Desert Dust. Large variant with Arabian-themed pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Bob Greenwade.
10. Muster Chess. Each player can muster different armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Grant Sinclair.
11. Rolling Chess. A game played with dice, where movement causes rolling and rolling changes piece identity. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Herb Gilliland.
12. Mega House Hexagonal Chess (MHH Chess). An enlarged version of Full house hexagonal chess by Kevin Pacey. Game with 72 pieces. (13x13, Cells: 127) By W ishere.
13. Short Sliders. Pieces are initially limited to 4 spaces (if that), and promote to longer moves. (12x16, Cells: 192) By Bob Greenwade.
14. Cutty Camels. Army for Chess with Different Armies that features Wizard from Omega Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By HaruN Y.
15. ZhamengQi. XiangQi with Grasshoppers. (9x10, Cells: 90) By HaruN Y.

Week ending October 14, 2023

1. Rocket Chess. Space-themed fairy chess variant on neoteric board: piece’s movement depends on type of cell where it stands. (Cells: 248) By Lev Grigoriev.

Week ending October 07, 2023

1. Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) By A. M. DeWitt.
2. Sac Chess. Game with 60 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.

Week ending September 30, 2023

1. Bigorra. Game Courier Preset for Bigorra, a large CV, 80 pieces of 34 types on 16x16 sq. board. (16x16, Cells: 256) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
2. Man and Beast 01: Constitutional Characters. Systematic naming of symmetric and forward-only coprime radial pieces. By Charles Gilman.
3. Man and Beast 06: The Heavy Brigade. Systematic naming of symmetric and forward-only non-coprime radial pieces. By Charles Gilman.
4. Man and Beast 04: Generalised Generals. Systematic naming of part-symmetric coprime radial pieces. By Charles Gilman.

Week ending September 23, 2023

1. Hia Chess. Smaller 9x8 variation of the Mongolian Hiashatar. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Jose Carrillo.
2. Granlem Shatranj. This is a mash-up of Grand Shatranj & Lemurian Shatranj with a 3 moves/player turn option. By Joe Joyce.
3. Herculean Chess. 12 x 12 version of chess featuring 4 Rooks, 4 Bishops, 4 Leapers and 22 pawns. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Daniel.
4. Hecatomb promotion. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
5. 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) By Gary K. Gifford.
6. Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
7. Half Courier. A Pawnless variant rearranging a slightly simplified Courier back rank onto two ranks. (6x8, Cells: 48) By Charles Gilman.
8. Grand Alamos Chess. FIDE, but with an initial setup reminiscent of Grand Chess. By Jeff Cornell.
9. GoshawkChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two Goshawks per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor. By James Zuercher.
10. Empire Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like queens but capture differently. By Daniel Lee.
11. Grand Triple Chess. Chess on an 16 x 24 board (i.e. six boards) with 3 sets of pieces. (24x16, Cells: 384) By Вадря Покштя.
12. Grand Shatranj N W. Shatranj with 10 individual pieces + pawns per army. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Mark Simpson.
13. Grand Ducal Chess. Missing description (12x8, Cells: 96) By John Ayer.
14. Goodchess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Este.
15. Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
16. Enep. An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Aurelian Florea.
17. Flying Bombers with Hangars. Features the flying bomber - a versatile dual range piece that captures by flying over the enemy. (8x8, Cells: 68) By Charles Daniel.
18. Exinox Chess. Normal chess set, new type of pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
19. Jurassic Chess. Game with unusual movements, a river, and bridges. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Andrew Wong.
20. Flying Bombers Grand Chess. The usual pieces in Chess are complimented by two Flying Bombers, which eliminate enemy pieces by flying over them! (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Daniel.
21. Flank Chess. Flank Chess with Achilles. (10x9, Cells: 90) By wdtr2.
22. Fighting Kings. The King has switched places with the King Pawn - The King is now a fighting piece. And the pawn must be protected. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.

Week ending September 09, 2023

1. Queens II. Game with 11 queens and no pawns. (12x10, Cells: 120) By Gerd P. Degens.

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