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Checkless Chess
Checkless Chess is a chess variant in which a player may not make a move that places the opposing king in check unless that same move also produces checkmate. This removes ordinary checking moves as intermediate threats and changes how players create forced positions, because an attack that would be...
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The top alternative to Checkless Chess in 2026 is Gliński's Hexagonal Chess with a score of 8.2/10, followed by Circe Chess (8.1) and Racing Kings (8.0).
Gliński's Hexagonal Chess
Gliński's Hexagonal Chess is a chess variant invented by Polish journalist Władysław Gliński and first publicly presente...
Circe Chess
Circe chess is a fairy chess variant in which a captured piece is normally reborn on the square where that type of piece...
Racing Kings
Racing Kings is a chess variant invented by the English game designer Vernon Rylands Parton in the 1960s. The game uses...
Alice Chess
Alice Chess is a chess variant invented by V. R. Parton in 1953 and named after Lewis Carroll's *Through the Looking-Gla...
Take and Make Chess
Take and Make Chess is a chess variant that changes the usual consequence of a capture. When a piece captures an opposin...
Extinction Chess (piece-type)
Extinction Chess is a chess variant attributed to R. Wayne Schmittberger that replaces checkmate with a piece-extinction...
Extinction Chess
Extinction chess is a chess variant associated with chess writer R. Wayne Schmittberger. Instead of winning by checkmate...
Pocket Knight Chess
Pocket Knight Chess is a chess variant in which each player begins with an additional knight held in reserve outside the...
Chancellor Chess
Chancellor Chess is a chess variant introduced by Ben Foster in 1887. It is played on a 9×9 board with an additional fil...
Baroque Chess
Baroque Chess, also known as Ultima, is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott in 1962 and played on...
Knightmare Chess (tabletop)
Knightmare Chess is a chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games that adds a hand of cards to the standard board, pi...
Anti-Circe Chess
Anti-Circe is a fairy-chess condition that changes the result of a capture. Instead of the captured unit being reborn, t...
Hostage Chess
Hostage Chess is a chess variant created by John Leslie in 1997. When a piece is captured, it does not simply leave the...
Ultima (Baroque Chess)
Ultima, also called Baroque Chess, is a chess variant created by Robert Abbott in 1962. It is played on a conventional c...
Wildebeest Chess
Wildebeest Chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987. It uses an 11 by 10 board rather than the...
Patrol Chess
Patrol chess is a chess variant in which a piece may capture only when the capturing piece is protected by another frien...
Dynamo Chess
Dynamo chess is a dynamic variant invented in the late 20th century where pieces do not capture enemies directly, but in...
Doublemove Chess
Doublemove chess is a chess variant in which each player makes two consecutive moves during a turn. The extra move chang...
Ambiguous Chess
Ambiguous Chess is a variant that uses pieces whose exact movement capabilities remain hidden or undefined until they ar...
Self-Capture Chess
Self-Capture Chess is a chess variant in which a legal move may capture one of the moving player's own pieces. The frien...
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