swap_horiz Shako Alternatives

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Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)

Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, presents a modern variation of chess where the initial board arrangement i...

Modern Competitive Randomized Setup Variant

9.8 Brilliant

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Shogi

Shogi is a traditional Japanese strategy game resembling chess. It’s notable for its ‘drop’ rule: captured pieces can be...

Traditional Japanese Promotion Regional

9.7 Brilliant

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Xiangqi

Xiangqi is a traditional board game originating in China. It utilizes a 9x10 grid with a prominent river dividing the pl...

Traditional Regional Chinese River Boundary

9.5 Brilliant

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Co Tuong

Cờ tướng is the Vietnamese form of xiangqi, the two-player board game commonly called Chinese chess in English. It is pl...

Historical East Asian Regional Vietnamese

9.4 Excellent

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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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Chess with Different Armies

"Chess with Different Armies" is an asymmetrical chess variant invented by the chess theorist Ralph Betza. In this game,...

Modern Asymmetric Betza Fairy Pieces

8.5 Great

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Omega Chess (David Taber)

Created by David Taber, Omega Chess is a variant played on a 10x10 board that introduces unique fairy pieces like the Ch...

Modern Champion Commercial Wizard

8.3 Great

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Ultima

Ultima is an abstract strategy game invented by Robert Abbott and first published in 1962. Played on an 8 by 8 board, it...

Baroque Western 8x8 Fairy Pieces

8.2 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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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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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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Rococo

Rococo is a chess variant derived from Baroque Chess, designed by Peter Aronson and David Howe around 2002, with pieces...

Modern Fairy Baroque Family 10x10

6.9 Fair

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Double Chess

Double Chess is a large-board chess variant in which each player controls two complete sets of standard chess pieces. Th...

Modern Variant Large Board Doubled

6.3 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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Amazon Chess

Amazon Chess is a chess variant that replaces the standard queen with an amazon piece. The amazon combines the queen's m...

Modern 8x8 Fairy Pieces Amazon Piece

5.9 Mediocre

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Jetan

Jetan is a fictional chess variant created by Edgar Rice Burroughs for his 1922 novel The Chessmen of Mars. The game rep...

Fantasy Variant 10x10 Edgar Rice Burroughs

5.9 Mediocre

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Grant Acedrex

Grant Acedrex is a large medieval chess variant described in the Libro de los Juegos, a Spanish manuscript completed in...

Spanish Medieval Historical Extended

5.8 Mediocre

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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

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Chess on a Really Big Board

Created by Ralph Betza, Chess on a Really Big Board expands the traditional game to a massive 16-by-16 grid, introducing...

Modern Experimental Extended Many Pieces

5.2 Mediocre