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)...

as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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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Atomic chess is a chess variant. Standard rules of chess apply, with the difference that all captures result in an "explosion" through which the capturing...

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

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Three Friends Game of the Three Kingdoms Game of the Seven Kingdoms (七国象棋), invented by Sima Guang Chess variant List of Janggi variants Shogi variant...

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...

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...

protocol for chess variants". TalkChess.com. "The Universal Shogi Interface (USI)". hgm.nubati.net. "中国象棋电脑应用规范(五)：中国象棋通用引擎协议". www.xqbase.com. List of UCI Engines...

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...

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 is...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Three-man chess is a chess variant for three players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1984. The game is played on a hexagonal board comprising 96 quadrilateral...

Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1. Andernach Chess by Stefanos Pantazis and Hans Bodlaender, The Chess Variant Pages...

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...

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

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...

Four-player chess (also known as four-handed chess) is a family of chess variants played with four people. The game features a special board typically made of a...

selection of variant starting positions. Additionally, a puzzle mode is included. Petersen was inspired to create the game by other chess variants, including...