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Capablanca chess on a regular 8x8 chess board. The Archbishop and Chancellor replace the two knights. All else is as in Chess.

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sagig72

Board

8 × 8

Games

15

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doducthien1705

Board

8 × 8

Games

4

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capablanca chess with camels

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tea_drunk

Board

12 × 8

Games

18

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Chess of Hormuz is a tactical chess variant played on an 8×9 board where the center rank is blocked by indestructible walls, leaving only a narrow 2-file gap open in the middle. ​With both flanks permanently sealed, standard forces and elite fairy pieces—the Amazon, Archbishop, Chancellor, and Centaur—must fight head-on through a brutal central choke-point. There is no castling, and the Kings start aligned directly down the open channel.

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Hailstorm

Board

8 × 9

Games

33

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Variant in the spirit of Hoppel-Poppel and New Zealand, rooks capture like bishops, bishops capture like rooks. In the standard piece set piece at the bottom is how the piece moves, at the top is how it captures.

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e-pluszak

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8 × 8

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3

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A compact 5×6 fusion of Makruk and Crazyhouse. Capture pieces to add them to your pocket, then drop them back onto the board to create fresh tactical opportunities.

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Hailstorm

Board

5 × 6

Games

12

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Simplified Crazyhouse. Special pawn promotion rules from the original definition are not implemented. Credits to Procyon for the definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(chess_variant)

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gbtami

Board

7 × 7

Games

15

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A compact 5×6 fusion of Makruk and Crazyhouse. Capture pieces to add them to your pocket, then drop them back onto the board to create fresh tactical opportunities.

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Hailstorm

Board

5 × 6

Games

19

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Connect 6 pieces or checkmate to win. Horizontal connecting doesn't count though

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Rom142857

Board

8 × 8

Games

5

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This variant is from https://www.chessvariants.com/invention/charge-of-the-light-brigade. The main point of it is that Black is supposedly winning even though it would seem like White is winning if you just count the material points. By the way, White can only Promote to Queen, and Black can only Promote to Knight.

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PraseodymiumSpike

Board

8 × 8

Games

9

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A highly chaotic Crazyhouse variant starting with both Kings fully exposed on e4 and e5. You must immediately drop pocket pieces to survive instant checkmates from turn one.

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testkahm768

Board

8 × 8

Games

46

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All the rules of standard Chess apply except that (1) the King is replaced with the Shaolin Master, described below, (2) the game is won if a Pawn reaches the final rank ("Pawn-mate"), and (3) stalemate is a loss for the stalemated player. Unlike the standard Chess King, the Shaolin Master flips between two alternate forms when moved. The Shaolin Master starts in the first form that moves and captures as Chess Queen. The second form moves and captures as the Quetzal in Chak, i.e., a Janggi Cannon that can move both orthogonally and diagonally. Castling is performed by moving the Shaolin Master onto the Rook if normal castling conditions are met in either the standard setup or 960.

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gbtami

Board

8 × 8

Games

14

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10x10 Shogi with Queen and stronger promoted minor pieces (no chain promotion)

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gbtami

Board

10 × 10

Games

27

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Twin Leaper Kings, Leapers that can move to any of the 16 squares, and Shogi Pawns whose promotion is Campmate.

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Snowmoondaphne

Board

10 × 10

Games

16

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pawn=king

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tea_drunk

Board

8 × 8

Games

7

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Chess variant on a 4x5 board. There is no queen, and only a single pawn.

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absalom29

Board

4 × 5

Games

5

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A chess variant with 4 types of queen class hoppers.

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Snowmoondaphne

Board

9 × 9

Games

29

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Diana, also known as Ladies’ Chess (Hopwood, 1870). This game, published in the recreation supplement to The Gentleman’s Journal (August 1870), is ‘chess rendered easier, especially adapted for our fair friends and also for draughts (checkers) players who may not have time to cultivate the more ancient game ... a game which could be played in half an hour and which may, at the same time, be superior to draughts as regards difficulty and ingenuity’. Hopwood’s contention was that the queen and the knights (‘in the management of which ... Morphy stands pre-eminent’) were too difKcult to handle for ladies and draughts players. Board 6x6; baseline (a1-a6/f1-f6) RBNKBR; pawns move one square only, promote to any array piece; kings castle under usual restrictions by changing places with rooks.

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absalom29

Board

6 × 6

Games

2

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Chess with weaker pieces on smaller board. Queen, rook and bishop move only two squares based on their original direction. And there is silver general from shogi.

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Hailstorm

Board

6 × 8

Games

6

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All pieces move like a king, except for the queen, which moves only like a king. Pawns promote to a "queen."

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Videocatter

Board

8 × 8

Games

16

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