5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel (stylized as 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, in start case) is a 2020 chess variant video game released for...
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285–86 "Zonal Chess" Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine by Larry Smith, The Chess Variant Pages "5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel Press Kit"...
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within it to a reasonable standard. Some variants, such as 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, are implausible or even impossible to play physically and...
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"tridimensional Scrabble". 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel There is some discussion whether this game should be called "Tri-Dimensional Chess" as in the Star...
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Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...
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Castling (redirect from Castling (chess))
as masonic chess, triangular chess, Shafran's and Brusky's hexagonal chess, and millennium 3D chess. In 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, castling...
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Makruk (redirect from Thai Chess)
Makruk (Thai: หมากรุก; RTGS: mak ruk; pronounced [màːk rúk]), or Thai chess (Thai: หมากรุกไทย; RTGS: mak ruk thai; pronounced [màːk rúk tʰaj]), is a strategy...
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Janggi (redirect from Korean chess)
sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...
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Dunsany's chess, also known as Dunsany's game, is an asymmetric chess variant in which Black has the standard chess army and White has 32 pawns. This...
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Checkless chess, also known as prohibition chess, is a chess variant where neither player may give check unless it is checkmate. All other rules are as...
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Xiangqi (redirect from Chinese chess)
'General's chess', in contrast with Western chess or cờ vua, literally 'King's chess'. The game represents a battle between two armies, with the primary...
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Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...
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Jungle (board game) (redirect from Jungle Chess)
the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. The Jungle gameboard represents a jungle terrain with dens, traps "set" around dens...
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Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell...
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Wildebeest chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987. The Wildebeest board is 11×10 squares. Besides the standard chess pieces,...
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Cylinder chess (or cylindrical chess) is a chess variant. The game is played as if the board were a cylinder, with the left side of the board joined to...
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Circe chess (or just Circe) is a chess variant in which captured pieces return to their starting positions as soon as they are captured. The game was invented...
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chess is a chess variant in which players, rather than just making one move per turn, play progressively longer series of moves. The game starts with...
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...
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Displacement chess is a family of chess variants in which a few pieces are transposed in the initial standard chess position. The main goal of these variants...
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Grand Chess is a large-board chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984. It is played on a 10×10 board, with each side...
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Sittuyin (redirect from Burmese chess)
Sittuyin (Burmese: စစ်တုရင်), also known as Burmese chess, is a strategy board game created in Myanmar. It is a direct offspring of the Indian game of...
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Andernach chess is a chess variant in which a piece making a capture (except kings) changes colour. For instance, if a white bishop on a2 were to capture...
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Crazyhouse (redirect from Drop Chess)
Crazyhouse is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced, or dropped, into the game as one's own. It was derived as a two-player...
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Beirut chess is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1992. The game is played using the standard chess pieces and board, with each side having secretly...
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Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer...
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Alice chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration...
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Cubic chess is a chess variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec beginning with an early version (named Echos) in 1977. The game substitutes cubes for the...
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Janus Chess is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Werner Schöndorf from Bildstock, Germany. It is played on a 10×8 board and features a fairy chess piece...
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Masonic chess is a chess variant invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1983. The game is played on a modified chessboard whereby even-numbered ranks are indented...
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