swap_horiz Cylindrical Chess Alternatives

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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

8.93 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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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

7.68 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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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

7.08 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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Smess

Smess is a commercial chess variant published by Parker Brothers in 1970 and played on a 7-by-8 board. Rather than movin...

Commercial Western Arrows 7x8

6.94 Fair

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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

6.80 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

6.75 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

6.70 Fair

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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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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

6.35 Fair

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Falcon-Hunter Chess

Falcon-Hunter Chess is a chess variant played on an eight-by-eight board that introduces two asymmetrical compound piece...

Modern 8x8 Falcon Piece Hunter Piece

6.30 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

6.25 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

6.25 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

6.20 Fair