Falcon–hunter chess (also called Schultz's chess, one-way chess, and meso chess) is a chess variant invented by Karl Schultz in 1943, employing the two...

including the standard FIDE chess army. Falcon-Hunter Chess: A falcon moves forward as a bishop; backward as a rook. The hunter moves forward as a rook;...

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...

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...

Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which...

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...

A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways. "International"...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

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...

Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...

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...

Marseillais chess (also called Double-Move chess) is a chess variant in which each player moves twice per turn. The rules of the game were first published...

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...

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...

Progressive 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...

Martian Chess is an abstract strategy game for two or four players invented by Andrew Looney in 1999. It is played with Icehouse pyramids on a chessboard...

The game is also known as the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. The Jungle gameboard represents a jungle terrain with dens...

Kriegspiel is a chess variant invented by Henry Michael Temple in 1899 and based upon the original Kriegsspiel (German for war game) developed by Georg...

Diving chess is a sport in which chess is played underwater. It was invented by Etan Ilfeld; and, since 2013, it has been included as one of the disciplines...

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

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...

Crazyhouse (also known as drop chess, mad chess, reinforcement chess and turnabout chess) is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced...

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...

Grid chess is a chess variant invented by Walter Stead in 1953. It is played on a grid board. This is a normal 64-square chessboard with a grid of lines...

Circe chess (or just Circe) is a chess variant in which captured pieces are reborn on their starting positions as soon as they are captured. The game was...

Dice chess can refer to a number of chess variants in which dice are used to alter gameplay; specifically that the moves available to each player are determined...

Avalanche chess is a chess variant designed by Ralph Betza in 1977. After moving one of their own pieces, a player must move one of the opponent's pawns...

Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant, similar to chaturaji, associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The name comes from the Enochian...

Wade–Giles: Hsiang ch'i; English: /ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular...

Spherical chess is any of several chess variants played on boards composed of fields arranged on the surface of a sphere. A variant described by Don Miller...