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Chu Shogi

Chu Shogi is a traditional Japanese chess-variant developed during the 14th century. Played on a larger 12x12 board, it...

Japanese Historical 12x12 Shogi Family

8.8 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

8.1 Great

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Tenjiku Shogi

Tenjiku Shogi is a historical Japanese chess variant played on a large 16×16 board. Developed during the 16th century, i...

Japanese Historical Shogi Family Large Board

7.8 Good

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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

7.8 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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Cylindrical Chess

Cylindrical Chess is a historical variant of standard Western chess that operates on the concept of a cylindrical board....

Variant Western Cylindrical Wrap Around

7.5 Good

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Courier-Spiel

Courier-Spiel is a historical German chess variant played on a 12×8 board, part of the Courier chess family that was pla...

German Historical Large Board Courier Family

7.4 Good

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Dai Shogi

Dai shogi, or large shogi, is a historical Japanese chess variant played by two people on a 15 by 15 board. Each side be...

Japanese Historical Shogi Family Large Board

7.3 Good

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Shako

Shako is a chess variant invented by Jean-Louis Cazaux in 1990, played on a 10×10 board with an expanded set of pieces....

Modern Fairy Pieces Large Board 10x10

7.3 Good

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Grande Acedrex

Grande Acedrex, also called Grant Acedrex, is a historical chess variant described in the 13th-century Spanish Libro de...

Spanish Historical 13TH Century Large Board

7.2 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

7.1 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

7.1 Good

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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

6.8 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

6.8 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

6.7 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

6.4 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

6.3 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

6.2 Fair

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Turkish Great Chess

A large-board chess variant from the Ottoman Turkish tradition, played on a board exceeding the standard 8×8 with an exp...

Medieval Historical Turkish Fairy Pieces

6.2 Fair

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Wolf Chess

Wolf Chess is a chess variant that supplements the standard piece set with a wolf—combining rook and knight movement—alo...

Modern Variant Fairy Pieces Large Board

5.6 Mediocre