The Chess Variant Pages

The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. It was created by Hans Bodlaender in 1995.^[1] The site is "run by hobbyists for hobbyists" and is "the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants".^[2]

The site contains a large compilation of games with published rules. The aims of the site are to educate readers about chess variants, encourage gameplay, and provide a place for free discussion. The site has featured game competitions as well as variant design competitions, and provides facilities for publishing documents. Numerous files are available for playing variants using the Zillions of Games proprietary software engine. The site also features The Game Courier software developed by Fergus Duniho which can be used to play almost any variant.^[3]^[4] There is also an extensive encyclopedia of fairy chess pieces.^[1]^[5]

Other contributing editorial volunteers include (alphabetically by last name): Peter Aronson, Jean-Louis Cazaux, Antoine Fourrière, Ed Friedlander, Ben Good, David Howe, Joe Joyce, Glenn Overby II, Tony Quintanilla, and Peter Spicer. Early editors included John William Brown, Tom Cook, Pavel Tikhomirov, and Vu Q. Vo.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Pritchard (2007), p. 362.
^ Pritchard (2000), p. 142.
^ Pritchard (2007), pp. 362–63.
^ "The Chess Variants Game Courier". Play.chessvariants.com.
^ "Piececlopedia". The Chess Variant Pages.
^ "Who is Behind the Chess Variant Pages?". www.chessvariants.com. Retrieved 8 January 2021.

Bibliography

Pritchard, D. B. (2000). Popular Chess Variants. B.T. Batsford Ltd. pp. 142–43. ISBN 0-7134-8578-7.
Pritchard, D. B. (2007). Beasley, John (ed.). The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. pp. 362–63. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1.

External links

Official website

Chess variants (list)

Orthodox rules

Different starting position	Fischer random chess Displacement chess Transcendental chess
Different number of pieces	Dunsany's chess Handicap
Unorthodox board	Balbo's game Circular chess Cylinder chess Double chess Grid chess Hexagonal chess (Cross chess, Masonic chess) Infinite chess Millennium 3D chess Minichess (Los Alamos chess) Rhombic chess Spherical chess Three-dimensional chess Triangular chess

Unorthodox
rules with
traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Andernach chess Atomic chess Beirut chess Checkless chess Chessplus Circe chess Crazyhouse Cubic chess Dynamo chess Extinction chess Hostage chess Knight relay chess Legan chess Losing chess Madrasi chess Monochromatic chess Patrol chess PlunderChess Portal chess Progressive chess Three-check chess Way of the Knight
Multimove variants	Avalanche chess Kung-Fu Chess Marseillais chess Monster chess Progressive chess
Elements of chance	Dark chess Dice chess Knightmare Chess Kriegspiel Penultima
Unorthodox rules on an unorthodox board	Alice chess Apocalypse Chad Chessence Congo Diplomat chess Dragonfly Jeson Mor Parallel worlds chess Rollerball 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel

Unorthodox
rules using
non-traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Baroque Berolina Chakra Chess with different armies Duell Falcon–hunter chess Grasshopper chess Musketeer chess Pocket mutation chess Cheskers
Compound pieces	Almost chess Capablanca chess Capablanca random chess Chancellor chess Embassy chess Grand Chess Janus Chess Maharajah and the Sepoys Modern chess Seirawan chess Tutti-frutti chess
Unorthodox boards and pieces	Chesquerque Chess on a really big board Courier-Spiel Dragonchess Gess Omega Chess Stratomic Dekle's triangular chess 2000 A.D. Wildebeest chess Wolf chess

Multiplayer

Inspired games

Chess-related
games

Historical	Chadarangam Chaturaji Chaturanga Courier chess Grant Acedrex Shatranj Short assize Tamerlane chess
Regional	Janggi variants Makruk Senterej Shatar Shogi Chu shogi Dai shogi Other variants Sittuyin Xiangqi Jungle Banqi Manchu chess Game of the Three Kingdoms Game of the Three Friends Game of the Seven Kingdoms Other variants

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