This is a list of chess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants estimates that there are well...

variants tend to be created for problem composition rather than actual play. There are thousands of known chess variants (see list of chess variants)...

see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants; for a list of terms general to board games, see Glossary of board...

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...

pieces of unorthodox chess, from fairy chess problems and chess variants (including historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces....

capture chess or losums) is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that...

Encyclopedia of Chess Variants discusses some 50 such variations extending chess to three dimensions as well as a handful of higher-dimensional variants. Chapter 11...

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...

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Shogi. Chess Variants: Taikyoku Shogi. Abstract Strategy Games. Free History of Chess. Infinite Chess at The Chess Variant Pages. An infinite chess scheme...

proponent of the variant, advocated the term "FullChess". Today he uses FullChess, however, to refer to variants which consistently embed classical chess (e...

ChessV (short for Chess Variants) is a free computer program designed to play many chess variants. ChessV is an open-source, universal chess variant program...

Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms used in chess is general, see Glossary of chess; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants. Directory: ...

of Kramnik. List of chess variants Kramnik (VladimirKramnik), Vladimir (2019-12-02). "Kramnik And AlphaZero: How To Rethink Chess". Chess.com. Retrieved...

Atomic chess is a chess variant. Standard rules of chess apply, but all captures result in an "explosion" through which the capturing piece, captured...

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...

Beasley, John D., ed. (January 2010). "Grand Chess". Variant Chess. Vol. 8, no. 63. British Chess Variants Society. pp. 142–44. ISSN 0958-8248. Gardner...

problem List of chess variants § Single-player variants Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Chess/Puzzles Lifetime updates and many chesspuzzles Chess puzzles...

Dark chess (also known as Fog of War chess) is a chess variant with incomplete information, similar to Kriegspiel. It was invented by Jens Bæk Nielsen...

Marseillais Chess". Popular Chess Variants. B.T. Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-8578-7. Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles...

Cylinder chess is one of six chess variants described by the Arabic historian Ali al-Masudi in 947. The cylindrical board is used in some chess problems...

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...

Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1. Official website MindSports.nl Congo The Chess Variant Pages Congo at BoardGameGeek...

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it...

"Avalanche". Variant Chess. Vol. 7, no. 48. British Chess Variants Society. p. 55. ISSN 0958-8248. Avalanche chess at The Chess Variant Pages Avalanche Chess a simple...

awarded and so on. Ashta Chamma Pachisi List of chess variants In some countries (at least Denmark) a variant for six players is available, but it is...

Dragonfly (also known as Shuttle Chess or Bird Chess) is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling in 1983. There are no queens, and a captured bishop...

Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. pp. 232–40. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1. Pritchard, D. B. (2000). "§8 Progressive Chess". Popular Chess Variants. B...

Apocalypse is a chess variant invented by C. S. Elliott in 1976. Each player starts with two horsemen and five footmen on a 5×5 board. The two sides make...

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...