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l. Missing description By Daniil Frolov.
L Shaped Chess. 2 player variant with some elements of 4-player ones. (7x7, Cells: 45) By Charles Gilman.
L'univers des Echecs. Rules and background on a number of variations of chess. Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Ladder Chess. Non-competing 40 Square contest entry with scaling board. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
Ladder Chess. Chess variant on a `skewed' board with 40 squares. (Cells: 40) By Sergey Sirotkin.
Ladder Chess 
. Chess variant on a `skewed' board with 40 squares. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
- Ladder Shogi. Shogi variant on 10 by 10 board where pieces climb the social ladder by multiple promotions. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Mason Green.
- Ladies and Generals. Missing description (6x(6x9), Cells: 324) By Charles Gilman.
- Ladon Chess. Introducing the Ladon, a short-range piece that can repel any other piece, and also capture this way (zrf available). By M Winther.
- Ladorean Chess. Another 10 x 8 Fergus Duniho variant with marshall and cardinal. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
- Ladorean Chess - Shaco Ladorean. Variation on Capablanca's Chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Bernhard U. Hermes. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
- Lag Chess. The last move made by your opponent is not known to you. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
Lambeth Conference. Bishops bounce off the walls. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Adam Sobey.
Lance. 
Moves one or more squares straight forward. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.
- Lancelot. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Stan Druben.
- LancerChess. a basic Western chess game, featuring Lancers in place of knights. By Glenn Nicholls.
- LancerChess (or LeopardChess). Missing description By Glenn Nicholls.
- Lancers Chess. chess with lancer piece, lancers instead of knights. By JT K.
- Landing force shogi. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By Daniil Frolov.
- Lao Tzu Chess. www.schemingmind.com. (8x8, Cells: 64) By John Kipling Lewis.
- Laquear Chess. Introducing the Laquear, that captures like a bishop, but moves by the collision method (zrf available). By M Winther.
- Large Chess ZRF . ZRF for Capablanca's Chess plus variants: Bird's, Aberg's, Grotesque, Univers, Embassy, Janus, Archbishop, New Chancellor + more. Author: Fergus Duniho.
- Large Nahbi Chess. Preset for Large Nahbi Chess. By Uri Bruck.
- Large Nahbi Chess. Missing description (10x12, Cells: 120) By Uri Bruck.
Large Variant 99 Contest Index Page. Missing description
- Large Variants in the Historic North European Style. Missing description () By Charles Gilman.
- Larger Wildeurasian variants. increasing the 2+2+1 piece groups from three to five or six. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Charles Gilman.
- Las Vegas Fun Chess. Java applet for Vegas Fun Chess, a dice-based variant. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: George Koltanowski.
- Las Vegas Fun Chess. Special chess dice determine what piece to move. Author: Edward D. Collins. Inventor: George Koltanowski.
Laser Chess. Shoot lasers in chess variant from computer program. Author: Peter Venable. Inventor: Mike Duppong.
- The Last Mourning. On board with 38 squares and Jesters. (Cells: 38) By Lester Jones.
- Last Move. Shareware program. Add a king to make a mate position. By Aleksey Bartashnikov.
- Last Rook Chess. King and last remaining rook are both royal. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Tony Paletta.
- Latrumcolorum Chess. Piece caught between two opponent pieces is moved by him. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
- Latrunculi duo milia et septum. Chess with rook/ferz & bishop/wazir substitutes for rooks and bishops. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Latrunculi XXI. A 21st century variant on an ancient Chess-like game of the Roman empire. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Jose Carrillo.
- Latte Chess. Alternative starting position, with each player having 4 rooks/bishops/knights, 1 king and queen, and 8 pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Michael .
- Leandro's Chess. You can move any number of units one time each per turn, providing. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
- Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Tony Quintanilla.
- Leandro's Chess. You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. By Tony Quintanilla.
- Leandros Chess . You may make a non-capturing move with each of your pieces in one turn, or make a normal capturing move. By Tony Quintanilla.
- Leap Chess . Game with manditory captures and other Checkers-like elements on a board of 44 squares. By Ken Franklin.
- Leap Chess. Game with mandatory captures and other Checkers-like elements on a board of 44 squares. (6x8, Cells: 44) By Ken Franklin.
- LeaperChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two extra Knights per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor. By James Zuercher.
- Leaperhouse. A 10x10 drop variant consisting of only Leapers, Shogi pawns and Kings. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Daphne Snowmoon.
- Leapers chess. a game with many leapers. (8x6, Cells: 44) By Andy Maxson.
- Leapers Chess. Decimal variant with additional leaping abilities for each of the pieces. By Larry L. Smith.
- Leapers Chess. Played upon a 10x10 field with all the pieces having leaping capability. By Larry L. Smith.
- Leapers Creeepers. Featuring compound long leapers of giraffes, zebras and camels. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.
- Leapers Creeepers. Decimal variant with many leaping pieces. By Christine Bagley-Jones.
- Leapfrog Chess. The pawn can leap over any man in its initial two-step move (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Leaping/Missing Bat Chess. Large variant on a 16x12 board with many fairy pieces. (16x12, Cells: 192) By John Savard.
- Lecce's Chess. semi-chess with a big army. (4x8, Cells: 32) By Andrea Perrone.
- Left-Right Chess. A large variant with some pieces that move as a Rook only left or right. By J Paleja.
- Legan's Chess. Normal set and board, different setup and pawn moves. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: L. Legan.
- Legan's Chess . Normal set and board, different setup and pawn moves. Author: Marek14 . Inventor: L. Legan.
- Legan's Fortress Chess . On an `I` shaped board. Author: Marek14 . Inventor: L. Legan.
- Legler's Chess . Modest 1926 variant using an Archbishop and a Chancellor. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Hugo Legler.
- Legler's Chess. Modest 1926 variant using an Archbishop and a Chancellor. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: John Ayer. Inventor: Hugo Legler.
Leko, Peter. An interview about a Fischer Random Chess match.
- Lemniscate Chess . Chess played on a Lemniscate board (in the shape of an infinity symbol). By David Cannon.
- Lemniscate Chess. Chess played on a Lemniscate board (in the shape of an infinity symbol). (18x4, Cells: 72) By David Cannon.
- Lemurian Shatranj. Lemurian pieces which utilize either or both types of their possible moves, possibly changing direction after the first. By Joe Joyce.
- Lemurian Shatranj. 8x8 variant that features short-range pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joe Joyce.
- Lemurian Shatranj . Missing description By Christine Bagley-Jones.
- Lene Hau Chess. Pieces take several turns for doing one move, going only one square per turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
- Lengthleaper Hex Chess. The hex-prism geometry has surprisingly many equal-length compound leapers. (4x(6x9), Cells: 136) By Charles Gilman.
- Leo. Moves on queen lines, but must jump once when taking. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: P. Seyfert-Bitterfeld.
- Leo Chess. The Queen is replaced by a Leo, which must leap over a screen to capture. Author: Ed Friedlander.
- Leto Chess. Introducing the Leto, a doubly telekinetic piece, very versatile (with zrf). By M Winther.
- Letter Chess. Pieces are a diagram that shows a letter and their movement capabilities. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Ed Pegg Jr..
- Levantine Chess. One unit is immune to capture if it is not attacking. Author: Ed Friedlander.
- Levitating Kings. Kings can levitate orthagonally or diagonally over a line of friendly pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
- Li, David. Interview with the author about his books on Kriegspiel. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
- Liars Chess. You may lie about the move you have made. Author: Fabio Forzoni. Inventor: Alessandro Castelli.
- Lias's Proposal. Pawns may move, but not capture, one square sideways. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: A. G. Lias.
- Lichen Chess. Pieces are modular, and each piece may contain fragments belonging to both players. By Alexandre Muñiz.
Lichess. Internet chess server featuring a few variants as well. Author: Ben M Reiniger.
- Life, the Universe and Everything . 42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: João Pedro Neto.
- Life, the Universe and Everything. 42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction. (6x7, Cells: 42) By João Pedro Neto.
- Lilliputian Monochromatic Alice Chess . All pieces are colorbound, and switch boards rather than switching color. By Peter Aronson.
- Lilliputian Monochromatic Alice Chess. All pieces are colorbound, and switch boards rather than switching color. (2x(6x7), Cells: 84) By Peter Aronson.
- Limited Doublemove Chess. Several variants on Doublemove Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ralph Betza.
- Limited Ranged Guards Chess. A game with some limited queens/guards and tanks to shoot opponent. (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
- Limited Square Chess. A form of Chess with a Limited Supply of Squares; entry of the 38-challenge. (8x8, Cells: 38) By Ralph Betza.
- Limiting Chess. On a 4x8 board, with the objective of capturing all the opponent's pieces. (8x4, Cells: 32) By Sergey Sirotkin.
- Lines of Relay. The addition of a piece - the "Lore Apprentice" adapted from the Querquisite. "LoR(e)" stands for Lines of Relay. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jörg Knappen.
- Lines of Relay (LoR). Chess variant featuring a new type of morphing piece, the Lore apprentice, on a standard board together with the standard pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jörg Knappen.
- Link to: Rainbowchess. Cards determine which pieces are placed on the board. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Jozias Hillenkamp and Melchior Hillenkamp.
- Lion. Powerful piece from Shogi variant.
- Lion (2). Moves on queen-lines but must jump exactly one piece. Appears in fairy chess problems. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.
- Lion (Murray). Jumps two orthogonally or diagonally or captures on neighboring square. Author: John William Brown and Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: H.J.R. Murray.
- Lion Chess. Replaces the riders in Chess with hoppers. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
- Lion Chess. Queen, rook and bishops are cannons that must leap in order to capture. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
- Lion Chinese Chess . Chinese Variant from Taiwan. By Yu Ren Dong.
Lions and Dragons Chess 
. Download this file to see this sample game. Author: Peter Aronson and Tony Quintanilla. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
- Lions and Dragons Chess . Hexagonal variant. Dragons carry a ball to the goal while Wizards avoid capture. By Tony Quintanilla.
- Lions and Dragons Chess. Hexagonal variant. Dragons carry a ball to the goal while Wizards avoid capture. (Cells: 84) By Tony Quintanilla.
- Lions and Unicorns Chess. With the 16 standard pieces and 4 powerful leapers. (10x8, Cells: 80) By David Paulowich.
- Lions and Unicorns Chess. Play this large Chess variant with Lions and Unicorns. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: David Paulowich.
- LiQi . Very Strong Chss. By Larry L. Smith.
- LiQi. Very Strong Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Larry L. Smith.
List of Chess Variants. This is a large listing of chess variants. Author: Sam Trenholme.
List of fairy pieces. A long list of fairy piece name and sources. Author: Frank Truelove.
- A List of Novelty Pieces. Lists unusual pieces with move descriptions. Author: Wayne VanWeerthuizen.
- Litrof. Variant on 42 squares played with stacks of Icehouse pyramids, where different color pyramids give stacks different powers. (5x8, Cells: 42) By Glenn Overby II.
- Little Cheops. Missing description By (zzo38) A. Black.
- Little Cheops. Large variant with extra rules governing game play. (9x9, Cells: 81) By B. Gregory Johnson.
- Little Dragon Chess . Modern small variant of Xiangqi on board of 41 squares. By Peter Aronson.
- Little Dragon Chess. Modern small variant of Xiangqi on board of 41 squares. (5x7, Cells: 41) By Peter Aronson.
- Little Great Chess. Chess on an 8 by 8 board with lots of new pieces, and rules like prisoner exchanges, throne ascensions, reinforcements. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Terry H. Jones.
- Little Rider Reef. Overcome the reef. (11x11, Cells: 110) By Gerd P. Degens.
- Little River Chess. 46 Cell game with Chinese Chess influence. Kings confined to palaces. By Gary K. Gifford.
- Little River Chess. A 46 square variant based loosely on Chinese Chess. (6x9, Cells: 46) By Gary K. Gifford.
- Little Trio. Missing description Author: Nick Wolff. Inventor: Jared B. McComb.
- Little Trio. Small variant combining Chess, Shogi, and Xiang-Qi. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Jared B. McComb.
- Liu Yang. Hexagonal analogue to Yang Qi. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
- Lively chess. Fast development is the basis in chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Piotr Smagacz.
- 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.
- Locust. Jumps over opposing pieces on Queen lines to capture. Author: Peter Aronson.
- Locusts. Simple chess variant with only two set of pieces on each army. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Yu Ren Dong.
- Locusts . Simple chess variant with only two set of pieces on each army. By Yu Ren Dong.
- Logic Mazes. Robert Abbott's Webpages. Author: Robert Abbott.
- Logical Follow-Up to Duke of Rutland Chess. Derivative of The Duke of Rutland's Chess with other compound pieces. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Claudio Martins Jaguaribe and Jeremy Gabriel Good.
Login. Sign in to the Chess Variant Pages. Author: Fergus Duniho.
- Logis 3D. 3d-chess variant by R. Planesi. (Link.). Inventor: Ronald D. Planesi.
- The Lonely Wolf . Missing description By Namik Zade.
- Long Leaper. Moves as queen, but takes by leaping. Author: Ben Good. Inventor: Robert Abbott.
- Long Yang. Applying the Nearlydouble principle to a variant with Cannons. (11x16, Cells: 176) By Charles Gilman.
- Long-King Shogi. Long-king moves very far but don't let it get captured. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
- Longshanks Chess. Missing description (12x12, Cells: 84) By Jonathan H Rutherford.
- Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. Author: John Smith. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
- Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. (7x7, Cells: 49) By Christian Freeling.
- Loonybird. Pieces on a seven by seven board move differently when they take. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
- Loop Chess. Chess played on a loop. (28x1, Cells: 28) By Rose Thorpe.
- Lord of the Rings Chess. Missing description Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Robert Price.
Los Alamos Chess. Play the first variant ever programmed for computer play on Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain. Inventor: Paul Stein and Mark Wells.
- Los Alamos Chess. First known variant played by a computer. (Recognized!) Author: Jason Shields.
- Los Alamos Chess . Chess on a 6x6 board. Author: David Howe.
- Los Alamos Chess. Used for the first computer chess program. Author: Ed Friedlander.
- Los Alamos Extinction Chess with Bunkers . On 6 by 6 board with two additional bunkers, and extension chess rules. By Doug Chatham.
- Los Alamos Extinction Chess With Bunkers. On 6 by 6 board with two additional 2 by 2 bunkers, and extension chess rules. (2x(6x6), Cells: 44) By Doug Chatham.
- Los Alamos variant. Chess on a 6 by 6 board from the early days of computing. (6x6, Cells: 36) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
- Los Alamos Vierschach. Four player variant of small variant Los Alamos Chess. (10x10, Cells: 84) By Jörg Knappen.
- Losing Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Antoine Fourrière.
- Losing Chess. Captures are mandatory, object is to be unable to move. Author: Ed Friedlander.
- Losing Chess. Play this variant with the object of being stalemated on Jocly. Author: Michel Gutierrez and Jérôme Choain.
- Losing Chess. Taking is obligatory; the first player that loses all his pieces wins. Author: Antoine Fourrière.
- Losing Chess II. Captures are mandatory, stalemate draws. Author: Ed Friedlander.
- Losing Chess III. Captures are mandatory; checkmating or having bare. Author: Ed Friedlander.
- Losing Chess IV. Captures are mandatory, being checkmated or having bare. Author: Ed Friedlander.
- Losing Sphinx Chess. Losing chess in four dimensions. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
- The Lotus Board. Notation and Directional Concepts.
- Lotus Boards. Configurations for Future Chess Variant Contests.
- Lotus chess: Chess Pieces in the Lotus Environment. With information on additional pieces.
- Lotus chess: Chess Pieces in the Lotus Environment. Missing description
- Lotus Chess: the Book. A hardcopy printout of the four main files dealing with Lotus Chess.
- Lotus-39. Chess variant on special shaped board with 39 squares. (Cells: 39)
- Lotus-39 Chess: An Introduction. Missing description
- Lubny Chess. 100 cell chess variant invented in 1972.
- Lucky Xiangqi. All the pieces, except the kings, are turned over so you can't see what they are. (9x10, Cells: 90) Author: Stephen Leary.
- Ludii Portal. The home of Ludii, a general game system that can play the full range of traditional strategy games, including chess variants. () Author: A. M. DeWitt.
- Ludus Chessunculus. Game played on Hexagonal board with non-standard pieces. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: John Cleaveland.
- Ludus Equitum. Game in style of Society of Creative Anachronism. By (zzo38) A. Black.
- Ludus Equitum. Dice chess variant, using standard set and two dice, designed in a 13th-century style for the SCA. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Glenn Overby II.
- Ludus Equitum. Game designed in style of Society of Creative Anachronism. By (zzo38) A. Black.
- Ludus Magus . Missing description By Larry L. Smith.
- Ludus Magus. Missing description (2x(8x8), Cells: 145) By Larry L. Smith.
- Lumberjack . Pieces move depending on the column they are on. Author: Robert Price. Inventor: Bruce Zimov.
- Lumberjack. Pieces move depending on the column they are on. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Bruce Zimov.
- Lumberjack. Pieces move according to their current column. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Bruce Zimov.
- Luotuoqi (Camel Chess) . Chess variant designed by committee. Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Various.
- Luotuoqi (Camel Chess). Fun contest: Help us create a new chess variant by committee. Author: Glenn Overby II.
- Luotuoqi: Nominations. The list of official nominations for the variant-by-committee. Author: Glenn Overby II. Inventor: Various.
- Lynx Chess. Razorbill. (12x12, Cells: 144) By HaruN Y.
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