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Maximummer
Maximummer is a fairy-chess condition that changes how one side selects a move without changing the ordinary chessboard or pieces. On Black's turn, the legal move with the greatest geometric distance between its starting and ending squares must be played; the distance is measured on the board rather...
apps Top Maximummer Alternatives
The top alternative to Maximummer in 2026 is Gliński's Hexagonal Chess with a score of 8.2/10, followed by Cambodian Chess (8.1) and Circe Chess (8.1).
Gliński's Hexagonal Chess
Gliński's Hexagonal Chess is a chess variant invented by Polish journalist Władysław Gliński and first publicly presente...
Cambodian Chess
Cambodian Chess, known as Ouk Chaktrang, is the traditional chess game of Cambodia, closely related to Thai Makruk and d...
Circe Chess
Circe chess is a fairy chess variant in which a captured piece is normally reborn on the square where that type of piece...
Alice Chess
Alice Chess is a chess variant invented by V. R. Parton in 1953 and named after Lewis Carroll's *Through the Looking-Gla...
Italian Progressive Chess
Italian Progressive Chess is a chess variant where players sequentially increase the number of moves they can make per t...
Take and Make Chess
Take and Make Chess is a chess variant that changes the usual consequence of a capture. When a piece captures an opposin...
Extinction Chess (piece-type)
Extinction Chess is a chess variant attributed to R. Wayne Schmittberger that replaces checkmate with a piece-extinction...
Extinction Chess
Extinction chess is a chess variant associated with chess writer R. Wayne Schmittberger. Instead of winning by checkmate...
Pocket Knight Chess
Pocket Knight Chess is a chess variant in which each player begins with an additional knight held in reserve outside the...
Cylindrical Chess
Cylindrical Chess is a historical variant of standard Western chess that operates on the concept of a cylindrical board....
Chancellor Chess
Chancellor Chess is a chess variant introduced by Ben Foster in 1887. It is played on a 9×9 board with an additional fil...
Baroque Chess
Baroque Chess, also known as Ultima, is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott in 1962 and played on...
Knightmare Chess (tabletop)
Knightmare Chess is a chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games that adds a hand of cards to the standard board, pi...
Anti-Circe Chess
Anti-Circe is a fairy-chess condition that changes the result of a capture. Instead of the captured unit being reborn, t...
Andernach Chess
Andernach chess is a fairy-chess condition in which a non-king piece changes color immediately after making a capture. T...
Anti-King Chess
Anti-King Chess is a fairy-chess variant built around an anti-king, a piece governed by the reverse of the usual check c...
Fusion Chess
Fusion Chess is a chess variant in which two adjacent friendly pieces may merge into one compound piece. The resulting p...
Maximummer Chess
Maximummer chess is a chess problem genre in which Black must choose a legal move that is geometrically longer than the...
Monochromatic Chess
Monochromatic chess is a restrictive variant where pieces are only allowed to move to squares of the same color they occ...
Bichromatic Chess
Bichromatic chess is an oppositional variant to monochromatic rules, requiring pieces to strictly alternate between ligh...
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