swap_horiz Ultima Alternatives

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Arimaa

Arimaa is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented in 2002 by Omar Syed. It is played on an 8x8 board using si...

Strategy Commercial Animals 8x8

8.9 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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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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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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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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Chess 480

Chess 480 is a chess variant developed by Reinhard Scharnagl as a more restricted starting-position system related to Ch...

Modern 8x8 Randomized Setup Variant

7.5 Good

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Musketeer Chess Variant

Musketeer Chess is an 8 by 8 chess variant created by Zied Haddad. Before a game begins, players select two additional f...

Modern Commercial 8x8 Gating

7.5 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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Ultima (Baroque Chess)

Ultima, also called Baroque Chess, is a chess variant created by Robert Abbott in 1962. It is played on a conventional c...

Baroque Complex Modern Classic Fairy

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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Almost Chess

Ralph Betza's Almost Chess is a variant where the traditional queens are replaced by different, specialized fairy pieces...

Modern Fairy 8x8 Rule Variant

7.0 Good

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Falcon-Hunter Chess

Falcon-Hunter Chess is a chess variant played on an eight-by-eight board that introduces two asymmetrical compound piece...

Modern 8x8 Falcon Piece Hunter Piece

6.9 Fair

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Smess

Smess is a commercial chess variant published by Parker Brothers in 1970 and played on a 7-by-8 board. Rather than movin...

Commercial Western Arrows 7x8

6.9 Fair

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Heian Shogi

Heian shogi is a historical form of Japanese shogi associated with the Heian period, from 794 to 1185. The surviving ear...

Japanese Historical Early 8x8

6.4 Fair

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Dragonfly Chess

Dragonfly Chess is a variant featuring a unique fairy chess piece called the dragonfly, which combines the movements of...

Modern Fairy Extended 8x8

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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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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Falcon Chess

Falcon Chess is a modern variant that introduces the falcon, a specialized fairy chess piece with unique extended moveme...

Modern Commercial 8x8 Falcon Piece

5.8 Mediocre