swap_horiz Knightmate Alternatives

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Chess with Different Armies

"Chess with Different Armies" is an asymmetrical chess variant invented by the chess theorist Ralph Betza. In this game,...

Modern Asymmetric Betza Fairy Pieces

8.5 Great

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Gliński's Hexagonal Chess

Gliński's Hexagonal Chess is a chess variant invented by Polish journalist Władysław Gliński and first publicly presente...

Polish Modern Fairy Hexagonal Board

8.2 Great

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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...

Modern Fairy Capture Rule Rebirth

8.1 Great

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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...

Modern Fairy Two Boards Teleport

7.9 Good

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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...

Modern Fairy Extra Move Capture Then Move

7.7 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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Extinction Chess

Extinction chess is a chess variant associated with chess writer R. Wayne Schmittberger. Instead of winning by checkmate...

Modern Capture Fairy Piece Extinction

7.5 Good

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Pocket Knight Chess

Pocket Knight Chess is a chess variant in which each player begins with an additional knight held in reserve outside the...

Tactical Modern Fairy Pocket Piece

7.5 Good

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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...

Modern Fairy Extended Chancellor Piece

7.4 Good

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Baroque Chess

Baroque Chess, also known as Ultima, is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott in 1962 and played on...

Modern Fairy Ultima Different Captures

7.4 Good

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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...

Commercial Card Game Board Game Fairy

7.4 Good

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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...

Modern Fairy Capture Rule Rebirth

7.3 Good

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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...

Tactical Modern Fairy Hostage Drops

7.2 Good

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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...

Baroque Complex Modern Classic Fairy

7.2 Good

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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...

Modern Fairy Extended Wildebeest Piece

7.1 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

7.0 Good

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Pocket Mutation Chess

Pocket Mutation Chess is a chess variant created by Mike Nelson. Captured pieces are not simply removed from play: they...

Modern Mutation Fairy Drop

6.9 Fair

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Dragonchess

Dragonchess is a three-dimensional fantasy chess variant created by Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, an...

Fantasy Fairy 3D Chess Three Board

6.9 Fair

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Rhombic Chess

Rhombic Chess is a chess variant invented by Tony Paletta in 1980. It is played on a rhombus-shaped board based on hexag...

Modern Hexagonal Fairy Alternate Board

6.9 Fair

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Grasshopper Chess

Grasshopper Chess is a fairy chess variant based on the grasshopper, a nonstandard chess piece. A grasshopper moves alon...

Modern Fairy Betza Grasshopper Piece

6.1 Fair