swap_horiz Cambodian Chess Alternatives

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Shogi

Shogi is a traditional Japanese strategy game resembling chess. It’s notable for its ‘drop’ rule: captured pieces can be...

Traditional Japanese Promotion Regional

9.7 Brilliant

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Xiangqi

Xiangqi is a traditional board game originating in China. It utilizes a 9x10 grid with a prominent river dividing the pl...

Traditional Regional Chinese River Boundary

9.5 Brilliant

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Co Tuong

Cờ tướng is the Vietnamese form of xiangqi, the two-player board game commonly called Chinese chess in English. It is pl...

Historical East Asian Regional Vietnamese

9.4 Excellent

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Makruk (Thai Chess)

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Historical Regional Thai Slow

9.2 Excellent

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Janggi

Janggi is a Korean chess variant distinguished by its larger 9x10 board and unique piece movements. It retains strategic...

Korean Traditional Palace Regional

9.1 Excellent

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Correspondence Chess

Correspondence chess offers a unique approach to playing chess. It’s a variant designed for remote play, typically utili...

Modern Historical Long Distance Slow

9.0 Excellent

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Arimaa

Arimaa is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented in 2002 by Omar Syed. It is played on an 8x8 board using si...

Strategy Commercial Animals 8x8

8.9 Great

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Chu Shogi

Chu Shogi is a traditional Japanese chess-variant developed during the 14th century. Played on a larger 12x12 board, it...

Japanese Historical 12x12 Shogi Family

8.8 Great

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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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Cambodian Chess (Ouk)

Ouk, also called Ouk Chatrang or Cambodian Chess, is a Cambodian regional chess variant closely related to Thai Makruk....

Historical Regional Cambodian Southeast Asian

8.4 Great

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Sittuyin (Burmese Chess)

Sittuyin, also called Burmese chess, is a traditional chess variant from Myanmar. It is played on an eight-by-eight boar...

Historical Regional Southeast Asian Burmese

8.2 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

7.8 Good

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Hiashatar

Hiashatar is a Mongolian chess variant played on a 10 by 10 board. Its defining feature is a bodyguard piece whose prese...

Historical Regional Mongolian Central Asian

7.6 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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Dai Dai Shogi

Dai dai shogi is a historical Japanese board game belonging to the shogi family, which also includes standard shogi and...

Japanese Historical Large Regional

7.2 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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Heian Shogi

Heian shogi is a historical form of Japanese shogi associated with the Heian period, from 794 to 1185. The surviving ear...

Japanese Historical Early 8x8

6.4 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

6.3 Fair

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Yari Shogi

Yari Shogi is a Japanese shogi variant in which pieces move and capture only along straight orthogonal lines. Diagonal m...

Japanese Variant Historical Shogi Family

6.1 Fair

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Shakhmaty

Shakhmaty is the Russian plural form of shakhmaty, the Russian word used for chess. It refers to the same two-player boa...

Classical Russian 19TH Century Historical

5.3 Mediocre