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- Grant Acedrex. Game Courier preset for Grant Acedrex with enforced rules. (12x12, Cells: 144)
- Grande Acedrex. Missing description
- Grand Warp Point Chess. Using normal chess pieces, plus two warp points, on a 10 x 10 board where pawns can take large initial steps. Inventor: Jason Shields.
- Grand Tamerlane Chess. Variation of Mideast Chess by John Davis. Inventor: John Davis.
- Grand Shogi. Normal Shogi but with extra pieces - "Smooth and fantastic fun, awesome action". Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.
- Grand Shatranj. Grand Shatranj.... extends the examination of short-range leapers by looking at another 2-square jumper and 2 short-range riders. By Joe Joyce.
- Grand Rider Chess. If you love riders, you'll love Grand Rider Chess, which combines several different colorbound and non-colorbound riders. Inventor: Larry Wheeler.
- Grand Combination Courier. Game with Compounds of Elemental (Atomic) FIDE Pieces Plus Camel, with Mostly Logical Promotions. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Grand Chess. Decimal variant with Cardinals and Marshalls. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
- Grand Cavalier Chess. Decimal variant with Cannons and Cavalier Chess pieces. By Fergus Duniho.
- Grand Betza. Play Grand Betza on Game Courier. Inventor: John Davis.
- Gorgona Chess. V. R. Parton's Gorgona paralyzes enemy pieces so they can't move (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Golden Age Chess on a Really Big Board. Play this 16 x 16 variant with several different pieces. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- goChess. goChess. By Joe Joyce.
- Go. Play Go with Game Courier.
- Go. Preset for Go and Go-Chess variants.
- Glinski's Hexagonal Chess (Symmetric). Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- Hexagonal Chess (Glinski). Chess on a board made out of hexagons. (Recognized!) Inventor: Wladyslaw Glinski.
- Gigachess II. Evolution of Gigachess. 24 different types of pieces on a 14 x 14 board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- 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. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Giant Chess 2. Giant Chess but with the addition of giant Ferzes and 8 Leos. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Giant Chess. 16 x 16 variant with lots of powerful pieces and the unique four square occupying Dev piece which is not easy to capture. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Gess. Combines GO with Chess: Invention of Archimedeans Mathematics Society, discussed by Ian Stewart in Scientific American. Inventor: Archimedeans Mathematics Society.
- General and Arch-General Chess. Variations of Bird's Chess. Inventor: Dominique Leste.
- Gast's Chess. Large 1969 variant using the Cardinal (Guard) and the Chancellor (Archer). Inventor: John W. Gast.
- Ganymede Chess. Mark Hedden's idea for "a large chess variant with many weird pieces...which wouldn't seem too different from orthodox chess". Inventor: Mark Hedden.
- Gamma2 Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Berolina Pawns & special Ship & Archer pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
- Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online. By Fergus Duniho.
- Gala. Historical German variant from the Middle Ages.
- Futashikana Shogi. Expanded version of Shosu Shogi played on an 11x11 board. By A. M. DeWitt.
- Fusion Diamond 41. A Fusion Chess variant played on a diamond shaped board of 41 squares. By Fergus Duniho.
- Fusion Chess. Play this variant in which pieces combine and split apart. By Fergus Duniho.
- Full house hexagonal chess. Hexagonal game with 50 pieces. By Kevin Pacey.
- Fugue. Based on Ultima and Rococo this game has pieces that capture in unusual ways. Inventor: Michael Nelson.
- Frog Chess. Play chess with added frogs (ferz-threeleaper compound) on 10x8 board. By Kevin Pacey.
- Four-Way Chess. 4-Way Chess. By Stephen R. Stockman.
- Football Chess. Pieces interact with a ball and each side tries to get the ball into the opposing goal. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
- Fool's Hexagonal Chess Courier Preset. Missing description By Graeme C Neatham.
- Flying Bombers Chess. This dual-range flying and jumping piece adds a new dimension to chess. Standard and large board presets. By Charles Daniel.
- Fluid Chess. Pieces can move into (or through or out of and into again) friendly pieces ("into" up to compounds). Inventor: Joe Joyce.
- Flexible Chess (F-chess). The light pieces are external and can move from any empty first rank square (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Fischer Random Chess. Play Bobby Fischer's randomized Chess variant on Game Courier. (Recognized!) Inventor: Robert J. Fischer.
- Chess 25 (Fischer Placement Chess). Swap king and/or queen before play begins. Follows FRC rules (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Final Fight CCChess. Last word in CCChess. By Namik Zade.
- Fighting Kings and Throne Kings. Chess with a normal Fide King and a Fighting King immune from check and checkmate. A sister game to Fighting Kings. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Fighting Kings. Fighting Kings cannot be checked or checkmated; but a Royal Pawn can. By Gary K. Gifford.
- 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". Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- FIDE Frolic. FIDE chess, but with each piece able to leap. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- FIDE Chess with Extra Pieces. FIDE Chess but with substitute pieces. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- FIDE Chess Kamil. FIDE Chess but with extra pawns, extra bishops and a store of superpowerful pieces waiting to replace the regular ones. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Fantastic XIII. This is the G.C. preset for Fantastic XIII, a bizarre CV,13 types of pieces on 13x13 board. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Falcon King Chess. A shortrange variant on an 8x8 board featuring a pair of royal Falcons. By Joe Joyce.
- Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Hex Falcon on the Game Courier. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- Falcon Chess: Passed Pawns, Scorpion and Dragon. Various passed pawns variants, and variants introducing scorpion and dragon. Inventor: George William Duke.
- Falcon Chess Variants - Several. Some Different Setups with Falcon pieces, including with Capablanca pieces and Airplanes. Inventor: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi and Peter Aronson.
- Falcon Chess RNFB. Falcon Chess with the formation Rook, Knight, Falcon, Bishop. Inventor: George William Duke.
- Falcon Chess RFNB. Falcon Chess with a new setup. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- Falcon Chess 100. Falcon Chess 100 is a variant of Falcon Chess played on a larger board with some different rules for the Pawns. Inventor: George William Duke.
- Falcon Chess. Play Falcon Chess on Game Courier! Inventor: George William Duke.
- Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidally interwoven board using same number of squares and pieces as FIDE Chess. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Extrapawn Chess. Standard chess with one extra pawn per player in the reserve (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Extra Move Chess. Move twice per turn with Extra Move Chess. By Fergus Duniho.
- Extinction Chess. Win by capturing every piece of the same type. (Recognized!) Inventor: R. Wayne Schmittberger.
- Expanded Chess. 100 square chess with complementary pieces. By Daniel Zacharias.
- Existentialist Chess. Play this game on a 10x10 board with many different pieces. Inventor: David Short.
- Exinox Chess. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- ExCoCo Chess. Missing description By Graeme C Neatham.
- Eurasian Chess. Synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess. By Fergus Duniho.
- Euchess. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- Essedar Chess. The Essedar is a bifurcation piece that moves by colliding (+zrf). By M Winther.
- Eric's Great Chess. Eric Greenwood shortens by two rows the familiar ancient Great Chess board.
- Episcopal Chess. Play this symmetric version of Chess online. By Fergus Duniho.
- Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced. By Daniel Zacharias.
- English Random Chess. Play this game with standard chessmen on a 10x10 board, with randomized piece setup. Inventor: Benjamin Clarke.
- Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- En Passant Chess of Ingo Althofer. This is just FIDE Chess, but with board contracted by one row. Try it out.
- Koksal Karakus' En Passant Chess -. All pieces have the en passant option. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Embassy Chess. Play this modern Bird's Chess variant based on the setup of Grand Chess. Inventor: Kevin Hill.
- Elven Chess. Chu Shogi Lion, Dragon Horse, Dragon King, Guard on Grand Chess type setup. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
- Elkrider Chess. Elkrider plus regular pieces. The Elkrider moves like a Nightrider if standing on white squares, otherwise it moves like a Rook. By M Winther.
- Elk Chess (with Scorpions). Poisonous Scorpion pawns combined with the restive Elk, that changes with the colour of the square. By M Winther.
- Elk Chess. The double-barrelled Elk moves differently depending on square colour. By M Winther.
- Elite Chess. Elite Chess adds an Amazon to Capablanca's Game by adding one more row to the board. By Stephen R. Stockman.
- Elephant Hunt. Ituri Forest Pygmi traditional game with chess-like elements. Inventor: Freederick .
- Elephant Chess. Featuring the time-honoured Burmese Elephant. By M Winther.
- Eight-Stone Chess. Players can move neutral stones as well as pieces. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
- Ecumenical Chess. Ecumenical Chess features three variants with camel-bishop, camel-rook knight-camel compounds. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
- Each Piece Once Chess. Each turn, move as many as all your pieces, but only once! By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Dynamo Chess. Preset for Dynamo Chess. Inventor: Hans Kluever.
- Crab Chess (Chess4). Blocked flank pawns are have an additional jump move to empty square (with zrf). By M Winther.
- The Duke of Rutland's Chess. Missing description Inventor: John Third Duke of Rutland.
- Dueling Archbishops. Chess game with only six cells but with a piece that morphs into four different forms. Inventor: Jason D. Wittman.
- Duel Chess. PBM Preset for 43-space variant played on two boards. Inventor: Erez Schatz.
- Dual Chess. A more Chess-like variant featuring the Marshall and the Cardinal. By Antoine Fourrière.
- Dromedary Chess. Pieces adjacent to the King can leap like a Dromedary (Camel). By M Winther.
- Dragonfly. Christian Freeling's 7x7 Chessgi type variant. No Queens. Pawns don't drop. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
- Dragonet Chess. The Dragonet flies to any square queenwise, captures piece behind landing square (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Dr. Who Chess. Variant based on the popular TV seiries. By Calvin Jack Pomerantz.
- Double Move Double Chess. Play this double move variant that uses two Chess sets with Game Courier. (8x16, Cells: 128) Inventor: Вадря Покштя.
- Double EIGHTEEN-STONE chess. David Short combines his Double Chess with Jim Aikin's Eight-Stone Chess. Inventor: David Short.
- Double Diamond. Pieces start diagonally across from one another and pawns move diagonally. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
- Double Chess. FIDE Chess x 2(with extra queen replacing what would be an extra king). Inventor: David Short.
- Doppelganger Chess. Pieces have their "doubles" (Doppelgangers). Capture an opponent's piece to make both disappear... uses a FIDE chess set. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Doppelganger BordahBee. A combination of BordahBee and Doppelganger Chess. By Gary K. Gifford.
- DoGod Random. Pawns and pieces dispersed on first and second ranks. Inventor: Calvin Jack Pomerantz.
- Displacement Chess 2. Chess with flexible castling, reverse symmetry and no opening theory. By Charles Daniel.
- Disintegration Chess. Pre-set for the game of disintegrating kings, rooks, fye'tins, and pawns. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Directed Alice Chess III. 3-board Alice. By Joe Joyce.
- Dimension X. Unusual transdimensional pieces interact with FIDE Chess. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
- Dimachaer Chess. The Dimachaer is a gladiator bifurcation piece that must collide to move (+zrf). By M Winther.
- Diffusion Chess. Creative attempt by Alexander Munoz to combine Chess and Go. Inventor: Alexandre Muñiz.
- Dice Mate Chess. No capture; checkmate only happens if roll of the dice is favorable. By George William Duke.
- Diamond Chess. Chess on a Diamond board. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- Devingt Chess. Game Courier to play Devingt Chess, on a 10x10 board with Sages (=Camels). Inventor: Leopold de Labrousse.
- Desert Pub Chess. A game with Desert Ferz and Desert Wazirs which make muliple captures by jumping. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Descent Chess. Kaufmann's drop variant. Begins with only K + P + P. Recommendable! Inventor: Andreas Kaufmann.
- Dervish Chess. Large variant with a great variety of pieces. Inventor: Benoit Dauphin.
- Deneb Play-By-Mail game. Observe this game being played in the Invent and Play contest! Turn 4. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
- Deneb. Now you can play Deneb on the Play-By-Mail system! Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
- The Demon Game. 10 x 10 game with extra Capablanca pieces. Inventor: Larry L. Smith.
- The Demon Game. Larry Smith 10 x 10 game with extra Capablanca pieces. Inventor: Larry L. Smith.
- Demi Chess. Weak short range pieces with less symmetry than some more familliar pieces. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Deluxe Chess. http://hometown.aol.com/taurusgaming/index.html. By Stephen R. Stockman.
- Delta88 Chess. trigonal chess using an hexagonal-lattice board. By Graeme C Neatham.
- Delegating Chess. 84 square variant in which pieces delegate moving powers. Inventor: João Pedro Neto.
- Decima. Variant on 10 by 10 board where you win when you have 10 points on the 10th row. Inventor: Michael Nelson.
- Dead Ringers Chess. Double chess game with twin pieces that are captured simultaneously. By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
- Dai Seireigi. Variant of Dai Shogi playable with drops. (15x15, Cells: 225) By A. M. DeWitt.
- Dada. The colorbound chess variant. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- D B Extreme ! (Doppelganger BordahBee Extreme). Doppelganger BordahBee Combo with Very High Capturing Potential. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Cylindrical Chess. Sides of the board are supposed to be connected.
- Culverin Chess. The Culverin is a cannon that can move like a king but must jump to capture (+zrf). By M Winther.
- Cube Shogi. Shogi with cube-shaped pieces. By John Smith.
- Crooked Chess. Chess variant with pieces inspired by the Sissa piece. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Critters: Chesimals III. Chesimals redesigned. By Joe Joyce.
- Crazyhouse. Play this two-player version of Bughouse. (Recognized!)
- Crazy 38's. Ben Good's Crazy 38's on the Game Courier. Inventor: Ben Good.
- Courier-Spiel. More modern version of Courier Chess, with Queen added.
- Courier de los Combinados. Variant with the most Basic Combinations of Knight, Camel, FIDE pieces, with ferzes, wazirs and guards. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
- Courier Chess - Modified. Fourth and Fifth Courier Chess variant modifications.... Inventor: Eric V. Greenwood.
- Courier Chess. A large historic variant from Medieval Europe.
- Corridor Chess. FIDE but subtracting rook pawns and setting pieces up in house in middle. Inventor: Tony Paletta.
- Corral Chess.. Force the opponent to the center in this 45/46 Cell Contest entry. By Doug Chatham.
- Contramatic Chess. This king can walk right into check! The goal for this king is to get checkmated. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
- Contemporary Random Chess. Missing description By Jose Carrillo.
- Connected Chess. Pieces are removed when they are no longer adjacent to any other piece. By Dan Troyka.
- Congo. Demian Freeling's Congo on the Game Courier. Inventor: Demian Freeling.
- Configuration Chess. King and queen swap with other pieces before play begins - enormous variety! (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Compton Medieval Chess. Large variant with three new pieces. By Travis Compton.
- Compound Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Sergeant pawns & armies of compound pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
- Complete Permutation Chess. Carrera pieces given additional falcon movement ability are added to wide 8 row board. Inventor: George William Duke and Peter Aronson.
- Commodore Chess. Featuring the Commodore piece (also called Leo) on a Gustavian board. By M Winther.
- Colossus. 10x10 chess with 4 Rooks, 4 Knights, 4 Bishops, 10 Pawns, 1 Queen and 1 King! Inventor: Charles Daniel.
- Coherent Chess (updated). http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/coherent.html. By Carlos Cetina.
- Coherent Chess. Coherent Chess on the Game Courier. Inventor: Carlos Cetina.
- Cobra Chess. Link featuring piece that occupies four squares at once, the cobra, moves like a rook but can leap over friendly pieces. Inventor: Derick Peterson.
- Clockwork Orange Chess. Condition your opponent's pieces to be non-violent. By Fergus Duniho.
- Cleopatra Chess. Dan Troyka game, similar to Benedict Chess but with only one color-changing piece. Cleopatra "seduces" any piece she sees. Inventor: Dan Troyka.
- Circular Chess. PBM Preset for Circular Chess. Inventor: Dave Reynolds.
- Circular Capa Chess. Play circular chess with added archbishops and chancellors on a 5x16 round board. By Kevin Pacey.
- Chu Shogi. Historic Japanese favorite, featuring a multi-capturing Lion.
- Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) By A. M. DeWitt.
- Chogo-44. Game with pawns and kings with co-enclosure capture. Inventor: David Jagger.
- Chinese court. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
- Chinese Chess. Play Xiang Qi, the Chinese form of Chess.
- Chigorin Chess. Knights and Chancellor vs. Bishops and Queen. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Chieftain Chess. Large variant using 4 royal pieces with command control, multi-piece moves and pieces that may shift direction as they move. Inventor: Joe Joyce.
- Chessgi. Play this hybrid of Chess and Shogi.
- Chessence of Jim Winslow. Movement is dictated by relation to friendly pieces. Inventor: Jim Winslow.
- Chess64. The piece array is moderately randomized according to Relocation Chess rules, castling is retained. By M Winther.
- Chess484. Before play, certain pieces are regrouped, creating natural positions. Castling is retained (+ zrf). By M Winther.
- Chess400. Piece setup is randomized according to Configuration Chess rules, producing 400 modest, mostly non-mirrored, positions (+ zrf). By M Winther.
- Chess256. The pawns are randomized on the 2nd and 3rd rank. By M Winther.
- Placement Random Chess (Chess 20). The piece setup is randomized following Placement Chess rules, generating 20 modest Fischer Random positions. By M Winther.
- Chess100. Piece positions are modestly randomized according to Arrangement Chess rules, castling is retained (+ zrf). By M Winther.
- Nonary Chess. King or queen are optionally swapped with a bishop before play begins (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Chess With Wizards. Chess with Wizards on the Game Courier. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- Chess with Terrain. Play Greg Strong's Chess with Terrain on Game Courier. By Greg Strong.
- Chess with Promoters. Each player has a piece which may promote the pieces of his opponent. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
- Chess with Extra Bishops. FIDE Chess with Extra Pair of Bishops that Start from Same Square. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Chess with Extended Castle. Standard chess with extended castle rule, effectuating greater opening variance (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Chess with Different Armies: Cylindrical Cinders. Ralph Betza variant, in which the White Pieces have the advantage of treating the board cylindrically. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Chess with Different Armies. A Ralph Betza personal favorite: Features series of armies with approximately the same strength as the FIDE army. (Recognized!) Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Chess vs checkers. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
- Chess on Two Boards. Chess on Two Boards. By Joe Joyce.
- Chess on the Rainbows. Six different colors light up the board. You have to keep a piece on each color throughout...
- Chess on a Really Big Board. Play Ralph Betza's Huge Chess Variant with Game Courier.
- Chess on a Really Big Board. Game that introduced rose and knight-camel-zebra... Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. Play this 8x10 game with three new pieces. Inventor: David Howe.
- Chess on a Larger Board with not so few Pieces Dropped Preset. Play this game with an interesting mix of Orthochess and Exotic pieces, some of which start in-hand! By Antoine Fourrière.
- Chess on a 12 by 12 board. Doug Vogel has placed the standard 32 chess pieces in the center of a 12x12 board. Inventor: Doug Vogel.
- Chess 9x9. Exciting variant combining classical pieces with Amazons, Camels and Dragon Horses. By Carlos Cetina.
- Chess 68. FIDE Chess with setup inspired by Omega Chess, to allow two modest new corner pieces.
- Chess 1010. Game with 40 pieces. By Kevin Pacey.
- Chess. Play Chess online with other people, using Game Courier, a PBM system that works with any web browser on any computer.
- Cheskers. Fun and simple crossover between chess and checkers invented by professor Solomon W. Golomb. Inventor: Solomon W. Golomb.
- Chesimals I. This game introduces "Chess Animals", independent groups of chess pieces that act as one large multi-square piece. By Joe Joyce.
- Checkers. The most popular game besides Chess played on the same board.
- Chaturanga. Oldest known form of chess. (Recognized!)
- Chasm Chess. Berolina Pawns, reflecting Bishop and Queen, and a chasm in the board! Inventor: Danielle Allen.
- Champagne Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with ferfils and dragons added. By Kevin Pacey.
- CGNP chess. A game with Knightly Pawns. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- Cetran Chess 2. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- Cetina Random Chess. Missing description By Carlos Cetina.
- Center of Attention. FIDE Chess but with an additional winning condition: Move your king unchecked into a center square. Inventor: Johan Richter.
- Centennial Chess. 10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix. Inventor: John William Brown.
- Centaur Chess. All pieces except Pawns move backwards as a Knight. By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
- Cellular Chess. Play Cellular Chess at Game Courier. By Carlos Cetina.
- CDA: Spacious Cannoneers. Spacious pieces combine with Vao and Pao pieces for Betzan Chess with Different Armies Variant. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- CDA: Pizza Kings. Experimental CDA army, submitted half in jest, with pieces whose movement imitates their shape. Inventor: John Lawson.
- CDA: Meticulous Mashers. ...every piece very nearly matches the corresponding piece from FIDE-chess, both in value and in general characteristics. - RB. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- CDA: Demi-Rifle Army. Missing description Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- CDA Variant: Fighting Fizzies. Missing description Inventor: Peter Aronson.
- CCCHess,Demon Vs Super Symchess. Pieces from Demon Chess face off against those from Super Symchess. By Namik Zade.
- CCChess - shuffle version. A few different imaginings of CCChess. By Namik Zade.
- CCC - The Clash of Civilizations Chess. ...two Chess Armies made from (some of) the most popular pieces used in Western and Eastern Chess games. By Namik Zade.
- Cavalry Chess. All pieces have additional knight move except knights which get camel + zebra moves. Inventor: Frank Maus.
- Cavalier Chess. All pieces except queens have some kind of knight-movement. By Fergus Duniho.
- Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses! Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
- Cataclysm. Large board variant with exciting, strategical play, and many powerful short-range pieces. By Greg Strong.
- Castle Chess. As Fide-chess, but with extended castle: the king may jump three squares (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Carrousel Chess. Circular chess using reflecting bishops & squirrels, not Bs & Ns. By Kevin Pacey.
- Carnage. Combines Rococo type gameplay with Chess on a large board with augmented knights and ninja pawn drops. By Charles Daniel.
- Cardinal Chess. Just like the usual Western contemporary, only replacing Mad Queen with Bishop Knight compound. Inventor: Vitya Makov.
- Capablanca's Chess. Play Capablanca's Chess on the Play-by-Mail system! Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
- Capablanca Shatranj. Where Cardinal and Marshall are replaced by their moderate short range leaper counterparts. Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.
- Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. Inventor: Reinhard Scharnagl.
- Canyon Chess. Play this small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules! Inventor: Andrew Blechinger and Jarry Vega.
- Canonness Chess. Chess with Cannons and Canonesses (Vaos) on a differently shaped board. By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
- Cannons of Chesstonia. Cannons on the sides of the board can "fire" new pieces into the game. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
- Cannons and Crabs. Small board, cannons (alibaba-guards) and some centralized crabs (sergeant pawns) - promotion only to cardinal or marshall... Inventor: David Short.
- Cannonrider Chess. The Cannonrider moves differently depending on square colour: on white squares as a Nightrider; else as a Chinese Cannon. By M Winther.
- Cannon Shosu Shogi. Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons. By A. M. DeWitt.
- Camelrider Chess. P. Aronson's big-board variant with regular pieces and Camelriders. Inventor: Peter Aronson.
- Camel Decimal Chess. Game Courier preset for Camel Decimal Chess, a 10x10 chess with Camels. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Camel and Rhino Chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board with new pieces. By Tony Quintanilla.
- Caïssa Britannia. Play this British-themed game with royal Queens plus Lions, Unicorns, and Dragons. By Fergus Duniho.
- Cagliostro's Chess. Savio Cagliostro of Okeechobee Florida invented this variant in latter quarter of 20th c. Adds extra cardinal and amazon to capa. Inventor: Savio Cagliostro.
- Byelorussian Chesskers. Pieces promote to "Damkas" in this Chess Checkers Hybrid. Inventor: Uwe Wiedemann and N. N. Grushevsky.
- Butterfly Chess. Game with Butterflies (not Ns), Advancers (not Qs) & Flying Dragons added. By Kevin Pacey.
- Burmese Chess. Sittuyin preset uses a mix of equivalent pieces from Alfaerie Set. By Charles Daniel.
- Building chess. Add a square after every move. Inventor: Abdul-Rahman Sibahi and Sergey Sirotkin.
- Brouhaha. Preset for Brouhaha, a game that brings the ruckus! By Greg Strong.
- Brotherhood Chess. A piece cannot capture one of its own kind. Inventor: Gianluca Vecchi.
- Brigadier Chess. Introducing the powerful Brigadier piece on a 68-square Gustavian board. By M Winther.
- Brand X Random Chess. Play Chess with a randomized setup. By Fergus Duniho.
- BrainKing.com. Play by email site that lets you play several chess variants. By Filip Rachunek.
- BordahBee. A two-move, two-board game with restrictions for the second move according to the first move. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Bomberman Chess. Two "bombs" and a "defuser" spice up this 10 x 8 game.
- Blue Chip Chess. Fun variant where each turn you get to create an off-limits square for your opponent . Inventor: Neal Turner.
- Blue Chess or Deep Blue Vs. Kasparov Chess. Tribute to a famous game with three shades of blue and different options for each player to achieve a win.
- Bland Chess 46. A 46 square variant of Bland Chess. Allows for War Machine, Knight, and/or Modern War Machine use. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford and (zzo38) A. Black.
- Bland Chess. Chess, but with no diagonal movements (aside from that built within the Knight).
- Blackjack Chess. Reduce the point value of your pieces to exactly 21 points and win the game. Or do it the old-fashioned way. Inventor: Henk Breugem.
- Black Hole Chess. Game with missing center and two extra spaces just behind the kings. Inventor: David Short.
- The Black Ghost. Betzan attempt to remedy White's first move advantage in FIDE by giving Black a noncapturing but capturable teleporting piece. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
- Birds and Ninjas. Immaculately balanced game features pieces with unique fly-over capture ability and short-range diagonal leapers. By Charles Daniel.
- Bird's Chess. Predecessor to Capablanca's Chess with Guard and Equerry. By Nick Wolff.
- 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.
- Big Chess. Ordinary chess pieces on an elongated 8 x 14 board with three times as many bishops and two times as many knights. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
- Big Board Chess. Play Big Board Chess online with Game Courier. Inventor: Alfred Schönfelder.
- Bifold Halfgi. Bifold pieces are able to combine with other same-colored bifold pieces and move as a single normal sized piece. By David Howe.
- Bifocal Chess. A game without capture : win by checkmate with a neutral piece! By Antoine Fourrière.
- Betza's Flying Circus. 4 Levels but only four pieces of two kinds can move on three of the levels. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Besiege Chess. Each side has two sets of armies, the black ones are in the middle and whites on top and bottom. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Berolina Chess. Classic variant with different moving pawns.
- Bellows Chess. The board expands and contracts from turn to turn. By Tony Quintanilla.
- Bedlam. Play this hybrid of Fusion Chess, Metamorph Chess, and Chessgi. By Fergus Duniho.
- Bear Chess. Play Bear Chess, a popular Russian game, on Game Courier.
- Battle Room Chess. Win by getting four of your pieces in or around your enemy's gate. By John Smith.
- Battle Line. A military-style variant with 48 pieces per side. By Joe Joyce.
- Battery Chess. Battery Chess on the Game Courier. By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
- Bario. Pieces are undefined until they move. Inventor: Panos Louridas.
- Barbershop Quartet. Toroidal Variant with Dual Direction Bishops. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules. By A. M. DeWitt.
- Bank Chess. Regular Chess only Drops come from Pocketings. Inventor: Karl Scherer.
- Balbo's Chess. Board with a strange shape designed to make Bishops stronger in relation to Rooks. Inventor: M G Balbo.
- Balbo's Chess 2. Balbos Chess 2. Inventor: M G Balbo.
- Backlash. Play on two boards, but capturing on one board leads to a backlash on the other! By Greg Strong.
- Bachelor Kamil. Play by E-mail! Combines ideas from Bachelor Chess and Wildebeest Chess. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
- Bachelor Chess. Play this game from the 42-square contest with the PBM system! By Doug Chatham.
- Azerbaijan Chess. http://zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/73747?do=show;id=1659. By Namik Zade.
- Azchess. Variant of Grand Chess in which one amazon is added to each side. By Namik Zade.
- AVP Episode 2. Very creative and fun contemporaneous take on Maharaja Chess. By Namik Zade.
- Avalanche Chess. A popular chess variant, where you advance your opponents pawns. (Recognized!) Inventor: Ralph Betza.
- Atlantean Coffee House Shatranj. Grand Shatranj on a Hex board. By Graeme C Neatham.
- Atlantean Barroom Shatranj. The most ambitious in a series of new games Joe Joyce is introducing with powerful short range compound double jumpers. By Joe Joyce.
- Asylum Redux. Featuring dual path Zebra / Camel crooked sliders compounded with Bishop / Rook. By Charles Daniel.
- Asylum Chess. Fire-through rooks, mad leaping (camel-move) bishops and double-capture insane ninja knights with lion-like powers. By Charles Daniel.
- Asteryx Chess. Preset for variant with asteryx shaped 43-space hexagonal board. Inventor: David Jagger.
- Assimilation Chess. Play this variant in which pieces assimilate the powers of captured pieces. By Fergus Duniho.
- Arrangement Chess. Swap king & queen before play begins. With mirrored kings and non-mirrored queens (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Archchess. Late 17th chess variant from Italy on large board with pieces which include modern queen and squirrel. Inventor: Dr. Francesco Piacenza.
- Archbishop Chess. Replace one of the marshalls from birds chess with a cardinal and you have Dominique Leste's Archbishop Chess. Inventor: Dominique Leste.
- Archabbott Chess. Introduces the Archabbott piece which moves like Bishop + Wazir + Dabbaba. Inventor: Eric V. Greenwood.
- Arch-Chancellor Chess. Uses Archbishops instead of Bishops and Chancellors instead of Knights. Inventor: Dominique Leste.
- Arch Courier. Eric Greenwood's modernization of Courier and Courier Spiel Chess. Inventor: Eric V. Greenwood.
- Arabian Nights Chess. Paul Newton's game on the Game Courier. Inventor: Paul E. Newton and Timothy R. Newton.
- Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
- Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. By Aurelian Florea.
- Anti-King Chess II. Win by putting your opponent's Anti-King out of check. Inventor: Peter Aronson.
- Anti-King Chess. Each player has both a King and an Anti-King to protect. Play it! Inventor: Peter Aronson.
- Anemic Chess. Rule-Enforcing Preset for Jaguaribe's short-range variant. Inventor: Claudio Martins Jaguaribe.
- Andy's Chess. Missing description By .
- Andernach. The capturing piece changes colors. Inventor: Stefanos Pantazis.
- Ancient world war. Play this game on Game Courier. By Daniil Frolov.
- Amoeba. Jim Aikin's Amoeba on the Game Courier. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
- Amazons. Queens fire arrows to make squares unpassable. Last player that moves wins. Inventor: Walter Zamkauskas.
- Amazon Grand Chess. A combination of Grand Chess and Amazon Chess. Inventor: Namik Zade.
- Amazon Chess. Well known old variant with amazons instead of Queens in FIDE Chess.
- Amalgamated Chess. Missing description By James Gryphon.
- Altair. Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.
- Alpaca Chess. An Alpaca, worth two pawns, is added to the standard piece context (with zrf). By M Winther.
- All pieces of classic chesses. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
- Aliens Vs Predators. Missing description By Namik Zade.
- Alice Chess. Play this classic variant in which pieces switch between boards whenever they move. (Recognized!) Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
- Alekhine Chess. A 14 x 8 game expands the sides of Capablanca-esque board, adds two pairs of marshalls and cardinals and an amazon in the middle. Inventor: Michael Wortley Nolan.
- Alapo. A small chesslike game. Inventor: Johannes Tranelis.
- Al-Ces. Variant on 10 by 10 board with 30 pieces per player. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Ajax Orthodox Chess. Orthodox Chess with Ajax-Chessmen, and droping Ajax-Ministers. By Jose Carrillo.
- Ajax Falcon Chess. Ajax Chess on a 10x8 board with two Ajax Falcon drops. By Jose Carrillo.
- Airplane Chess. R. W. Schmittberger's Airplane Chess on the Game Courier. Inventor: R. Wayne Schmittberger.
- Air Attack Chess. Missing description By Stephen R. Stockman.
- AIGO Chess. Adds cannons to fianchetto positions of FIDE Chess. Inventor: Feng Jun.
- Agincourt. Decimal variant with Archers. Inventor: Charles W. Stinson.
- Advanced wizard chess. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
- Adjutant Chess (with Adjutants). The Adjutant, besides sliding on the diagnals, can slide on the orthogonals by ignoring the other colour (+zrf). By M Winther.
- Adjutant Chess. Regular chess with extended castling, and extra corner squares. Makes new strategies possible (+zrf). By M Winther.
- Actualized Potential Chess. Pieces exist where they are but also all along their routes or points of attack. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- Active King Chess. Each turn, one must move one's king in addition to moving other pieces. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
- Achernar. ACHERNAR is a mix of the game ALTAIR and Western Chess. By Roberto Lavieri.
- Accessory Chess (with Divaricator). Drop chess with external piece. The Divaricator can capture by withdrawing in an oblique angle (+zrf). By M Winther.
- Accelerated Chess. White makes one move at first and then each player makes either a capturing move or two non-capturing moves. Inventor: Tony Paletta.
- Aberg's variation of Capablanca's Chess. Play this variation on the Play-by-Email system! Inventor: Hans Aberg.
- A9 HexaChess Courier Preset. Missing description By Graeme C Neatham.
- 6hess. Each piece moves 6 times before disappearing. By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
- 65 Square Chess. FIDE chess but pretend there's another square smack dab in the middle. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- 4D Quasi-Alice Chess. Four dimensional 8x8x2x2 game that's rather like Alice Chess. By Kevin Pacey.
- 4D Hexagonal Chess. 4D analogue of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess based on Hyperchess4. By Kevin Pacey.
- 4*Chess (four dimensional chess). Four dimensional chess played with 96 pieces. By Kevin Pacey.
- 4 x 4 x 8 Tridimensional Chess. Clever 3-D variant, closer to Raumschach, but according to Gilman, solves some of Raumschach's design flaws. Inventor: Alberto Monteiro and Silvio Levy.
- 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. By Kevin Pacey.
- 4 Armies. Four traditional armies with cardinals face off on the corners. Inventor: Patrick Riley.
- 3D Great Shatranj. a simple approach to 3D chess. By Joe Joyce.
- 21st Century Chess. Missing description
- 2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces with Dissociative Identity Disorder. By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
- 123456 Chess. Missing description Inventor: (zzo38) A. Black.
- 12 Sharp Chess. Missing description Inventor: Charles Gilman.
- 10-directional Chess. Updated with rule-enforcing presets. By Nick Wolff.
- 10 Minute Melee. Missing description Inventor: Mason Green.
- 007 Chess. 007 Chess involves three move per turn, including one of your opponent's pieces. Inventor: Edward Jackman.
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