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Week ending March 23, 2024

HnefaChess. The best combination of Chess and Hnefatafl. (Cells: 228) By Florin Lupusoru.
Sacrificial chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) By Rose Thorpe.
Sorry, King!. Two parallel games of Chess and Sorry (Ludo) influence one another. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Florin Lupusoru.
The showpiece script. A script for displaying individual piece images with some modifications. By Fergus Duniho.
Immortal Chess. 36 Immortals with hidden powers create chaos on the board. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Florin Lupusoru.

Week ending March 16, 2024

Fluidity chess. No displacement capture: all non-royal pieces take by cutting through or bypassing (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.
Fergana. The clash of empires on Fergana Valley. (Cells: 168) By Florin Lupusoru.
Equalized Shatranj. Basic weak moves of ancient pieces are compensated by their numbers. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.
Morphing Chess IV. Pieces are based on the color of the squares reached. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.
Morphing Chess III. A game with upgrades and downgrades. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.
Morphing Chess II. A game with upgrades and downgrades. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.
Morphing Chess. A game with a morph zone, (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.

Week ending March 09, 2024

Trafalgar Chess. 8 extra Pawns in two columns mimic the famous Battle of Trafalgar. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Florin Lupusoru.
Torus Chess (The Shape of Space). xenos1984 (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Manuel Hohmann. Inventor: Jeff Weeks.
Accelerated Constable-Spiel. Chess on a 16x8 board with an assortment of pieces. (16x8, Cells: 128) By Kevin Pacey.
Constable-Spiel. Chess on a 16x8 board with an assortment of pieces. (16x8, Cells: 128) By Kevin Pacey.
Fearsome Chess. Fear is the main rule on the board (8x8, Cells: 64) By Florin Lupusoru.

Week ending March 02, 2024

Brawl Chess. Chess on a 12x12 board loaded with powerful pieces. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Kevin Pacey.
Officer-Spiel. Chess on a 16x8 board loaded with powerful pieces. (16x8, Cells: 128) By Kevin Pacey.
Accelerated Constabulary Chess. Chess on an 8x10 board with several compound piece types added. (8x10, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
Constabulary Chess. Chess on an 8x10 board with compound piece types added. (8x10, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
Officer Chess. Chess on an 8x10 board with many powerful compound piece types added. (8x10, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
Hybrid Decimal Chess. Chess on a 10x10 board with unusual compound pieces included. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
Symmetric Chess. 9x8 variant with two queens flanking the king usig the Bishops Conversion Rule. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Carlos Cetina.
Transformer (conquer style). Pawns mutate into higher-value pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.
Centaur Princess Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with Centaurs and Princesses (archbishops) added. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
Hybrid Chess. Chess on a 10x8 board with some unusual compound pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
Heavy Shako. 10x10 variant inspired by Yangsi and Shako, made by Eric Silverman. Author: A. M. DeWitt. Inventor: Eric Silverman and Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Wild Rose Chess. Pokshtya (8x8, Cells: 64) By Вадря Покштя.

Week ending February 24, 2024

Pyramid Chase. Chase on a pyramid, 561 hexagons. By Florin Lupusoru.
Transformer. Pawns mutate into higher-value pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.
fortress. Missing description (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Ben M Reiniger.
Neoteric Different Pawns Random Chess. Really different pawns are shuffled in asynchronous way on pawn rows. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.

Week ending February 17, 2024

Black Swan. Pieces are replaced by Black Swans with unpredictable outcomes. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Florin Lupusoru.

Week ending February 10, 2024

Colorbound Chess. Pieces never change their squares’ color, so army is divided into two halves – attacking and defending. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Lev Grigoriev.
Macrochess. Missing description Author: Daniil Frolov and Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Robert Potter.
Queens (conquer style). A game with 7 queens and no pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gerd P. Degens.
Steward. Omnidirectional Pawn. Author: Bn Em. Inventor: Philip Marinelli and John William Brown.
Scramble. 36 pieces scrambled on the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Florin Lupusoru.
Manticore. Moves one space orthogonally, then slides outward as a Bishop. Author: Bn Em. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Dai Kagamigi. Even larger version of Kagamigi, with pieces biased toward the center. (15x15, Cells: 225) By Bob Greenwade.
Wild Samarkand. This is a Game Courier preset for Wild Samarkand, one of the variants from the Timurid Family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Wild Babur. This is a Game Courier preset for Wild Babur, one of the variants from the Timurid family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Wild Mirza. This is a Game Courier preset for Wild Mirza, one of the variants from the Timurid family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Wild Timurid. This is a Game Courier preset for Wild Timurid, one of the variants from the Timurid family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Timurid Mirza. This is a Game Courier preset for Timurid Mirza, one of the variants from the Timurid family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Timurid Babur. This is a Game Courier preset for Timurid Babur, one of the variants from the Timurid family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Timurid. This is a Game Courier preset for Timurid (std), one of the variants from the Timurid family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Omega Chess. This preset for Omega Chess enforces the rules and spots check, checkmate, and stalemate. Author: Fergus Duniho.

Week ending February 03, 2024

Timurid Samarkand. This is a Game Courier preset for Timurid Samarkand, one of the variants from the Timurid family. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
SPQR. The perfect battle formation of Roman infantry. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Florin Lupusoru.
Nostromo. As Ripley, save astronauts from the Alien. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Ilya Yudovski.
Chu Kagamigi. Larger extension of Kagamigi, with pieces biased toward the center. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Bob Greenwade.
Paramount Parafigures. An army where some pieces are triply-divergent. (8x8, Cells: 64) By HaruN Y.
Lively chess. Fast development is the basis in chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Piotr Smagacz.
Nasty Neighbours (conquer style). The goal of the game is to conquer the opponent's army and to add it to your own army. (9x8, Cells: 72) By Gerd P. Degens.
The Crab: ffNbsN. Missing description By Ralph Betza.
KingSwap!. A solitaire swap puzzle to escort your lazy King. (5x5, Cells: 25) By Vincent Bugica.

Week ending January 27, 2024

Onslaught. Several pieces can capture only on the enemy half, favoring attack. (12x12, Cells: 144) By H. G. Muller.
Seikaku Ni Wanai Shogi. Shogi with no strong pieces, but very strong promotions. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Lev Grigoriev.
Champagne Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with ferfils and dragons added. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Kevin Pacey.
Parity Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with Champions and FADs added. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Kevin Pacey.
SOHO Chess. Chess on a 10x10 board with Champions, FADs, Wizards & Cannons. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
Wide SOHO Chess. Chess on a 12x10 board with Archbishops, Marshalls, Champions, FADs, Wizards & Cannons. (12x10, Cells: 120) By Kevin Pacey.
Kagamigi. Shogi variant featuring pieces biased toward the center. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Bob Greenwade.
Crossfire. A game with 'darts' and 'double darts' (crossfire). (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gerd P. Degens.
Patchanka. This is the Game Courier preset for Patchanka, a variant with several bi-compound pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Patchanka. Decimal variant with several bi-compound pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Okapi Chess. Regular chess, except that Knights are replaced by Okapis. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Bob Greenwade.
Penthouse. Game like Chess and Makruk but on the half of chessboard with drops and full chess set used. (4x8, Cells: 32) By Lev Grigoriev.
Icon Clearinghouse 6. Part 6 focuses on my own original pieces and icons. By Bob Greenwade.
Icon Clearinghouse 3. Part three features nobility, clergy, military, and related icons. By Bob Greenwade.
Divergent Dreamers. Army for Chess with Different Armies where pieces can only move when it has a neighbour. (8x8, Cells: 64) By HaruN Y.
Companion chess. The Queen may have a companion. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Piotr Smagacz.
Timurid. Evolution of timur chess. (12x12, Cells: 144) By François Houdebert.
Ultimajor. Ultima like game where each pieces are capable of checkmate with only their own King for support. (8x8, Cells: 64) By HaruN Y.
Knavish Chess. Variant using square-board analogues to 6-way hex-board Dabbabas. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Charles Gilman.
AltOrth with Further Piece Types. Extending the AltOrth interpretation of hex cells to further variants. (11x11, Cells: 91) By Charles Gilman.
Bachelor Hunterbeest. Hunterbeest without the Queen or Gnu - to start with... (9x8, Cells: 72) By Charles Gilman.
Westfield Chess. Unidirectional hemed variant introducing enhanced Nimrod pieces. (12x8, Cells: 96) By Charles Gilman.
Man and Beast 21: Lords High Everything-Else. Systematic naming of pieces that do not fit in any of the other articles. By Charles Gilman.
Man and Beast 19: The Vice Squad. Systematic naming of more complex pieces mixing radial and oblique moves. By Charles Gilman.
Man and Beast 14: Oddly Oblique. Systematic naming of hex-specific coprime oblique pieces. By Charles Gilman.
Man and Beast 13: Straight and Crooked Moving. Systematic naming of part-straight and more complex non-straight pieces. By Charles Gilman.

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