swap_horiz Cheskers Alternatives

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Crazyhouse960

Crazyhouse960 is a hybrid chess variant that combines the mechanics of two distinct chess variations. It merges the drop...

Online Hybrid Combined Randomized

8.5 Great

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Gess

Gess is an abstract strategy board game that combines elements of chess and Go. Invented by Archin M. Withnall and intro...

Hybrid Abstract 18x18 Go Board

8.2 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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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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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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Chessboxing

Chessboxing is a hybrid sport that combines the board game of chess with the combat sport of boxing. It was invented in...

Modern Sport Hybrid Boxing

7.0 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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Apocalypse Chess

A chess variant played on a compact 5×5 board with reduced armies and simultaneous move selection, designed for quick ta...

Modern Variant Mini Small Board

6.8 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

6.7 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 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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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

6.3 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

6.2 Fair

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Maximummer

Maximummer is a fairy-chess condition that changes how one side selects a move without changing the ordinary chessboard...

Modern Variant Constraint Fairy

6.2 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

6.2 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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Fusion Chess

Fusion Chess is a chess variant in which two adjacent friendly pieces may merge into one compound piece. The resulting p...

Modern Variant Fairy Piece Merging

6.1 Fair