The Unusual Board Tag
Description
While some boards differ from the Chess board only in size, others differ from it in a variety of other ways. Some have a non-rectangular arrangement of squares, some go beyond two dimensions, some have spaces of different shapes than squares, and some have terrain or other features on the board that affect movement.
Tagged Pages
2x2x16 Race Chess. Race Chess on a 2-level circular board with Crooked Bishops and Queens. (2x(2x16), Cells: 64) (1)- Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses! (8x11, Cells: 88) (1)
- Chess Cubic. Chess board is a cube with each side a 4x4 grid. (6x(4x4), Cells: 96) (1)
- Crazy 38's. On strange board with 38 squares. (Cells: 38) (Recognized!) (1)
Delta88 Chess. Chess on a Trigonal Board. (11x8, Cells: 88) (1)- Dragonchess. A three-dimensional fantasy variant. (3x(12x8), Cells: 288) (Recognized!) (1)
- Flipworld. Pieces are on both sides of a disc. (2x(6x7), Cells: 84) (1)
- Hourglass Chess. 38-Square board in shape of Hourglass. (7x6, Cells: 38) (1)
- Janggi - 장기 - Korean Chess. The variant of chess played in Korea. (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!) (1)
- Lemniscate Chess. Chess played on a Lemniscate board (in the shape of an infinity symbol). (18x4, Cells: 72) (1)
- Omega Chess. Rules for commercial chess variant on board with 104 squares. (12x12, Cells: 104) (Recognized!) (1)
- Qiube. Xiang Qi variant with Fortresses expanded from square to cube. (3x(9x10), Cells: 126) (1)
- Raumschach. The classical variant of three-dimensional chess: 5 by 5 by 5. (5x(5x5), Cells: 125) (Recognized!) (1)
- Rotorblades Chess. Game played on a board that is both circular and trigonal. (Cells: 150) (1)
- Rotorblades Fusion Chess. Played on a circular tiling on triangular cells. A further development of my previous game, Rotorblades Chess. (Cells: 150) (1)
- Smess. British name of Smess, a Parker Brothers game in which arrows on squares determine the directions pieces may move. (7x8, Cells: 56) (Recognized!) (1)
- Soul Reaver Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
- Tamerlane chess. A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj. (11x10, Cells: 112) (Recognized!) (1)
- Tetrahedral Chess. Three dimensional variant with board in form of tetrahedron. (7x(), Cells: 84) (1)
- Wizard's War. Game with piece-creating Wizards and a board divided into arena and enchanted sections. (10x10, Cells: 84) (1)
- Xiangqi (象棋): Chinese Chess. Links and rules for Xiangqi (Chinese Chess). (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!) (1)
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- 3DBoard
- Crazy Board - Boards that defy our usual notions of order
- Cube Board - A board on multiple surfaces of a cube or even multiple cubes
- Pentagonal - Games played on pentagonal boards
- Round Board
- Triagonal - Games played on triagonal boards