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2. Chess on a really big board - Wikipedia

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   Chess on a really big board is a large chess variant invented by Ralph Betza around 1996. [1] It is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 16 pieces (on the back rank) and 16 pawns (on the second rank) per player.

3. Rook (chess) - Wikipedia

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   Two rooks are generally considered to be worth slightly more than a queen (see chess piece relative value). [7] Winning a rook for a bishop or knight is referred to as winning the exchange. Rooks and queens are called major pieces or heavy pieces, as opposed to bishops and knights, the minor pieces. [8]

4. Grand Chess - Wikipedia

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   Grand Chess is a large-board chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984. [1] [2] It is played on a 10×10 board, with each side having two additional pawns and two new pieces: the marshal and the cardinal. The marshal (M) combines powers of a rook and a knight. The cardinal (C) combines powers of a bishop and a ...

5. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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   Thrones Chess, initial setup with the classic chess pieces. Free squares may be filled by additional classic or fairy chess pieces. Zonal chess: Board has triangular wings or "zones" on either side of the main 8×8 board. Queens, bishops, and rooks that start from one of the squares in either zone may change direction and keep going on the same ...

6. Empress (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The empress is one of the most simply described fairy chess pieces and as such has a long history and has gone by many names. It was first used in Turkish Great Chess, a large medieval variant of chess, where it was called the war machine (dabbabah; not to be confused with the piece more commonly referred to as the dabbaba today, which is the (2,0) leaper).

7. Dai shogi - Wikipedia

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   Dai shogi (大将棋, large chess) or Kamakura dai shogi (鎌倉大将棋) is a board game native to Japan. It derived from Heian era shogi, and is similar to standard shogi (sometimes called Japanese chess) in its rules and game play. Dai shogi is only one of several large board shogi variants.