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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. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Chessboard - Wikipedia

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   Alice Chess is a popular variant which is usually played on two boards to facilitate the movement of pieces between the boards. [19] Three-dimensional boards are often represented by multiple two-dimensional boards. Variants may use anywhere from two to eight boards. [20] For example, Raumschach utilises five boards of twenty-five squares each ...

6. Grid chess - Wikipedia

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   Grid chess sample position. Grid chess is a chess variant invented by Walter Stead in 1953. [1] It is played on a grid board. This is a normal 64-square chessboard with a grid of lines further dividing it into larger squares. A single additional rule governs Grid chess: for a move to be legal, the piece moved must cross at least one grid line.

7. The Chess Variant Pages - Wikipedia

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   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.