swap_horiz Falcon-Hunter Chess Alternatives

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Co Tuong

Known in Vietnamese as cờ tướng, this is the Vietnamese form of xiangqi, the two-player game commonly called Chinese che...

Historical East Asian Regional Vietnamese

9.42 Excellent

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Rapid Chess

Rapid chess uses the ordinary chess game with a shorter time allowance, rather than introducing different pieces or a ne...

Modern Competitive Time Control Format

9.26 Excellent

3

Chess960

Introduced by Bobby Fischer in 1996 as Fischer Random Chess, Chess960 retains the standard chessboard and pieces while v...

Modern Fischer Randomized Shuffle

9.25 Excellent

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Makruk (Thai Chess)

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Historical Regional Thai Slow

9.21 Excellent

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Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)

Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, presents a modern variation of chess where the initial board arrangement i...

Modern Competitive Randomized Setup Variant

8.97 Great

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Glinski's Hexagonal Chess

Glinski's Hexagonal Chess is a chess variant invented by Władysław Gliński in 1936. It uses a hexagonal board made of 91...

Hexagonal 1936 Glinski Hex Board

8.91 Great

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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

8.88 Great

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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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Ultima

Ultima is an abstract strategy game invented by Robert Abbott and first published in 1962. Played on an 8 by 8 board, it...

Baroque Western 8x8 Fairy Pieces

8.21 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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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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Musketeer Chess Variant

Musketeer Chess is an 8 by 8 chess variant created by Zied Haddad. Before a game begins, players select two additional f...

Modern Commercial 8x8 Gating

7.52 Good

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Chess 480

Chess 480 is a chess variant developed by Reinhard Scharnagl as a more restricted starting-position system related to Ch...

Modern 8x8 Randomized Setup Variant

7.48 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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Almost Chess

Ralph Betza's Almost Chess is a variant where the traditional queens are replaced by different, specialized fairy pieces...

Modern Fairy 8x8 Rule Variant

7.04 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

6.40 Fair

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Amazon Chess

Amazon Chess is a chess variant that replaces the standard queen with an amazon piece. The amazon combines the queen's m...

Modern 8x8 Fairy Pieces Amazon Piece

5.85 Mediocre

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Falcon Chess

Falcon Chess is a modern variant that introduces the falcon, a specialized fairy chess piece with unique extended moveme...

Modern Commercial 8x8 Falcon Piece

5.82 Mediocre

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Dragonfly Chess

Dragonfly Chess is a variant featuring a unique fairy chess piece called the dragonfly, which combines the movements of...

Modern Fairy Extended 8x8

5.75 Mediocre