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. Adds rifle-capturing archers and royalty-inheriting princes. By dead dead.
- A "Friendly" Game of... Chess?. Each side has Friends, and several odd pieces. Insanity ensues. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Bob Greenwade.
007 Chess. A variant where you also move your opponents pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Edward Jackman.
- 10 Minute Melee. Score as many points during 10 minutes of time with regular chessset. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mason Green.
- 10-directional Chess. 10-directional pieces: an augmented Knight and a restricted Chancellor. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
10-directional Chess. Updated with rule-enforcing presets. By Nick Wolff.
100 other games to play on a chessboard. Out of print book describing 100 games playable on a chessboard. Author: Stephen Addison.
- 10x10 game with some popular pieces. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 104) By Daniil Frolov.
- 10x10 Multiple Knot Chess. Board in `mathematical shape'.
10x8 Variants. Missing description By Jose Carrillo.
- 12 Augmenters Chess. Each piece's movement capabilities is increased by ~4 squares. By Andrew L Smith.
- 12 Sharp Chess. 4-player versions of 10-or-more-file variants on cross-shaped boards. (12x12, Cells: 108) By Charles Gilman.
- 123456 Chess. Missing description Author: Nick Wolff. Inventor: (zzo38) A. Black.
- 123456 Chess. Uses 2 dices for each player and 2 checkers for each player, in addition to normal chess pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
- 125 Percent Shogi and 125 Percent Xiang Qi. 4-player versions of Oriental variants on cross-shaped boards. (15x15, Cells: 125) By Charles Gilman.
- 16Chess. Game with 4 royal pieces. By Zhedric Meneses.
1st World Open Chess Variant PBEM Championship. Tournament proposal open for public comment before creation. Author: Glenn Overby II.
- 2 Jewels. Larger version of Pink Panther Chess with second jewel and common Thieves. (9x10, Cells: 90) By Charles Gilman.
- 2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces that automatically flip into wyrd and not so strange counterparts. (10x8, Cells: 68) By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
2006 World Chess Variants Championship on-line. World Chess Variants Championship. By Stephen R. Stockman.
- 2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!! By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
21st Century chess 
. A Zillions file to play an updating of Chess for the video game generation, on a 10x8 board with Barons and Jesters. Author: Peter Aronson.
- 2Choice Chess. You can tell opponent which pieces he can move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
- 3 Level 4 Player Variants. Putting 4 players on a 3d board usually used for 2. (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) By Charles Gilman.
- 3 Man Chess: Review. Missing description Author: David Howe.
- 3 Strikes Chess. The first attack does not immediately remove pieces from the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
3-D Chess Discussion Group. Missing description
- 3-Dimensional Eight Level Chess. TRUE 3D Chess on an 8 x 8 x 8 board.
- 3-Player Chess I. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 75) By Bn Em.
- 3d 5 Level Hex-Prism variants. A 6-player variant on 3 overlapping 9x9 boards. (5x(11x11), Cells: 455) By Charles Gilman.
- 3D Arimaa . 3D Arimaa - Arimaa meets Raumschach. By Tim O'Lena.
3D Chess. Play 3D Chess in your browser with Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain.
- 3D Chess 4 Cubed. Three dimensional chess on 4 by 4 by 4 board. (Link.). (4x(4x4), Cells: 64)
- 3D Chess, a Different Way of Looking at It. A scheme for a geometric translation of 2d piece moves into 3d.
- 3D Great Shatranj. A simple approach to 3D chess. (6x(6x6), Cells: 216) By Joe Joyce.
- 3D Great Shatranj. a simple approach to 3D chess. By Joe Joyce.
- 3d Minishogi. A variant originally devised for a contest that never materialised. (3x(3x5), Cells: 45) By Charles Gilman.
3D Set Photographs. Missing description Author: Ben Good.
- 3D Shogi. Three dimensional version of Japanese Chess. By Larry L. Smith.
- 3D version of checkers, chess and shogi. 3D version of checkers, chess and shogi. By Paul Glover.
- 3D Xiang Qi. Three dimensional version of Chinese Chess. By Larry L. Smith.
- 3D-chess FAQ file. Information on the classic 5x5x5 three dimensional chess game. (5x(5x5), Cells: 125)
- 3D8L Chess . TRUE 3D Chess on an 8 x 8 x 8 board.
- 3FewShogi Chess. Like Chess but 3 Shogi per side. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
- 3to2: A 3D flavour in orthodox chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Stephane Burkhart.
- 3to2: A 3D flavour in orthodox chess. Missing description By Stephane Burkhart.
- 4 Armies. Each player controls two armies. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Patrick Riley.
- 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj.
Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
- 4 Linepiece Fusion. Variants in which straight linepieces get to fuse with Crooked or Bent ones. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Charles Gilman.
- 4 Player Chess. Commercial four player chess variant.
- 4 x 4 x 8 Tri-dimensional Chess. Missing description (4x(4x8), Cells: 128) By Alberto Monteiro.
- 4*Chess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess played with 96 pieces. By Kevin Pacey.
- 4*Chess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess using sixteen 4x4 boards & 96 pieces. (4x(4x(4x4)), Cells: 256) By Kevin Pacey.
- 4-handed Chaturanga with dice. Missing description Author: M Winther.
- 4-handed Shatranj. Shatranj for Four. Author: M Winther.
- 4-Player Pothole Chess. Bulldozers and cars and other vehicles are pieces in 4-player chess variant. (7x7, Cells: 39) and Seth Blanchard. and Seth Blanchard.
- 4-Way Chess. Commercial fourhanded chess variant. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Stephen R. Stockman.
- 45 or 46 Cell Contest - 2007 Design Contest. Quick contest for 45 or 46 cells. Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2007. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- 4D Hexagonal Chess. 4D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Hyperchess4. (5x(5x(5x5)), Cells: 361) By Kevin Pacey.
- 4D Quasi-Alice Chess. 8x8x2x2 four dimensional game with 32 pieces. (2x(2x(8x8)), Cells: 256) By Kevin Pacey.
- 4D Quasi-Alice Chess. Four dimensional 8x8x2x2 game that's rather like Alice Chess. By Kevin Pacey.
- 5*4DChess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess variant played with 140 pieces. (5x(5x(5x5)), Cells: 625) By Kevin Pacey.
- 52Chess. A piece may teleport to the square corresponding to a drawn card. By Kevin Pacey.
- 6 by 10 Pawnless Half variants. Pawnless variants rearranging non-Pawn ranks of variants with 10 ranks by 10 or more files onto just 6 files. (6x10, Cells: 60) By Charles Gilman.
- 6 Ranks, remaining variants. Extrapolations from the Diana/Los Alamos/Haynie's Primary family of variants. (6x6) By Charles Gilman.
- 64 triangles. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Daniil Frolov.
- 65 Square Chess. FIDE chess but pretend there's another square smack dab in the middle. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- The 65th Square: Ethan Hunt's website. Website of Ethan Hunt. Author: Ethan Hunt.
- 6hess. Each piece moves 6 times before disappearing. By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
- 8-Piece Chess. (Queen's Army chess, all 8 Back Rank Pieces different). By JT K.
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