swap_horiz Apocalypse Chess Alternatives

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Dobutsu Shogi

A small board and animal-themed pieces make Dobutsu Shogi, also sold as Let's Catch the Lion, an approachable introducti...

Japanese Mini Regional Children

8.74 Great

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Cambodian Chess

Cambodian Chess, known as Ouk Chaktrang, is the traditional chess game of Cambodia, closely related to Thai Makruk and d...

Variant Historical Regional Asean

8.08 Great

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Italian Progressive Chess

Italian Progressive Chess is a chess variant where players sequentially increase the number of moves they can make per t...

Speed Incremental Variant Western

7.78 Good

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Extinction Chess (piece-type)

Extinction Chess is a chess variant attributed to R. Wayne Schmittberger that replaces checkmate with a piece-extinction...

Modern Variant Fairy Piece Extinction

7.68 Good

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Cylindrical Chess

Cylindrical Chess is a historical variant of standard Western chess that operates on the concept of a cylindrical board....

Variant Western Cylindrical Wrap Around

7.52 Good

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Mini Shogi

Mini Shogi is a modern variant of traditional Japanese chess, invented by Shigenobu Kusumoto in 1971. It is played on a...

Modern Japanese Small Board 5x5

7.41 Good

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Gardner's Minichess

Gardner's Minichess is a chess variant played on a 5×5 board, introduced by mathematics and science writer Martin Gardne...

Modern Mini Small Board 5x5

7.15 Good

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Kinglet

Kinglet is a fairy chess variant invented by the British game designer Vernon Ryland Parton in the mid-20th century. Pla...

Variant Western 8x8 King Elimination

7.14 Good

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Judkins Shogi

Judkins Shogi is a compact Japanese board game variant invented by Paul Judkins in 1998. Played on a grid of 5 columns b...

Modern Japanese 6x6 Small Board

7.13 Good

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Brusky's Hexagonal Chess

Brusky's hexagonal chess is a chess variant created by Yakov Brusky and played on an irregular hexagonal board composed...

Variant Hexagonal Western Expanded

7.08 Good

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Tri-Dimensional Chess

Tri-Dimensional Chess is a family of chess variants played across multiple vertically separated boards, allowing pieces...

Star Trek Three Dimensional Variant 3D Chess

6.80 Fair

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Andernach Chess

Andernach chess is a fairy-chess condition in which a non-king piece changes color immediately after making a capture. T...

Modern Variant Fairy Color Change

6.70 Fair

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Micro Shogi

Micro Shogi is a compact shogi variant played on a 5×5 board, designed to preserve the drop and promotion mechanics of s...

Modern Japanese Mini Shogi Family

6.55 Fair

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Kyoto Shogi

Kyoto shogi is a compact Japanese chess variant played on a 5 by 5 board with a reduced set of pieces. Except for the ki...

Modern Japanese 5x5 Shogi Family

6.53 Fair

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Scottish Progressive Chess

Scottish Progressive Chess is a variant in which players make consecutively increasing numbers of moves per turn, differ...

Progressive Modern Variant Scottish

6.35 Fair

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Wellisch's Hexagonal Chess

Wellisch's Hexagonal Chess is an early 20th-century three-player chess variant devised by Austrian engineer Siegmund Wel...

Variant Historical Early 20TH Century Hexagonal Board

6.25 Fair

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Double Chess

Double Chess is a large-board chess variant in which each player controls two complete sets of standard chess pieces. Th...

Modern Variant Large Board Doubled

6.25 Fair

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Three-Player Chess

Three-Player Chess is a broad family of chess variants that lets three people play in one game rather than using the sta...

Modern Multiplayer Variant 3 Player

6.20 Fair

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Anti-King Chess

Anti-King Chess is a fairy-chess variant built around an anti-king, a piece governed by the reverse of the usual check c...

Modern Variant Fairy Anti King Piece

6.20 Fair

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Minichess

Minichess is a broad category of chess variants played on boards smaller than the standard eight-by-eight chessboard. Co...

Modern Simplified Small Board Reduced

6.03 Fair