swap_horiz Apocalypse Chess Alternatives

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Dobutsu Shogi

Dobutsu Shogi, also marketed as "Let's Catch the Lion," is a simplified variant of the traditional Japanese board game s...

Japanese Mini Regional Children

8.7 Great

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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

8.1 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

8.1 Great

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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

7.8 Good

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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

7.8 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

7.7 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

7.5 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

7.2 Good

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Kyoto Shogi

Kyoto Shogi is a fast-paced 5x5 Japanese variant invented in 1999 where each piece flips over to a different piece type...

Modern Japanese 5x5 Shogi Family

7.1 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

7.1 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

7.1 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

6.8 Fair

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Andernach Chess

A fairy chess condition named after the German city of Andernach, where any piece that makes a capture immediately chang...

Modern Variant Fairy Color Change

6.7 Fair

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Minichess

Minichess is a category of chess variants played on smaller boards, most commonly 5x5 or 6x6 grids, designed to create f...

Modern Simplified Small Board Reduced

6.6 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

6.6 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

6.4 Fair

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Wellisch's Hexagonal Chess

Wellisch's Hexagonal Chess, published by Siegmund Wellisch in 1912, is one of the earliest known attempts to adapt stand...

Variant Historical Early 20TH Century Hexagonal Board

6.3 Fair

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Double Chess

A chess variant played on an extended 16×8 board where each side commands two full sets of pieces, doubling standard mat...

Modern Variant Large Board Doubled

6.3 Fair

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Three-Player Chess

Three-Player Chess encompasses several variants adapted for three competitors, typically using a modified three-sided bo...

Modern Multiplayer Variant 3 Player

6.2 Fair

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Maximummer

A fairy chess condition in which Black is required to always play the geometrically longest move available, measured by...

Modern Variant Constraint Fairy

6.2 Fair