This is a list of chess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants estimates that there are well...

variants tend to be created for problem composition rather than actual play. There are thousands of known chess variants (see list of chess variants)...

as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following...

see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants; for a list of terms general to board games, see Glossary of board...

Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...

Encyclopedia of Chess Variants discusses some 50 such variations extending chess to three dimensions as well as a handful of higher-dimensional variants. Chapter 11...

ChessV (short for Chess Variants) is a free computer program designed to play many chess variants. ChessV is an open-source, universal chess variant program...

Shogi. Chess Variants: Taikyoku Shogi. Abstract Strategy Games. Free History of Chess. Infinite Chess at The Chess Variant Pages. An infinite chess scheme...

Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...

Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms used in chess is general, see Glossary of chess; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants. Directory: ...