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The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules of the game. The rules can be grouped into categories, from the most innocuous (starting position) to the most dramatic (adding chance/randomness to the gameplay after the initial piece placement).
A three-player chess variant which uses a hexagonal board. A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. [1] Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways. "International" or "Western" chess itself is one of a family of games which have related origins and could be considered variants of each other.
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Losing chess [a] is one of the most popular chess variants. [1] [2] The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère version. In some variations, a player may also win by checkmating or by being checkmated. Losing chess was weakly solved in 2016 by Mark Watkins as a win for White, beginning with 1.e3.
The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. It was created by Hans Bodlaender in 1995. [1] The site is "run by hobbyists for hobbyists" and is "the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants". [2] The site contains a large compilation of games with published rules.
Wildebeest chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Wildebeest board is 11×10 squares. Besides the standard chess pieces , each side has two camels and one "wildebeest" - a piece which may move as either a camel or a knight.
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.
Chess with different armies (or Betza's Chess [1] or Equal Armies [2]) is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1979. Two sides use different sets of fairy pieces . There are several armies of equal strength to choose from, including the standard FIDE army.