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General
Grand Chess
Chess+
Shogi
Xiangqi
Congo
Dragonfly
Loonybird
Shakti
Caïssa
Chad
Yari Shogi
Rotary
Chakra
Chess960
Grand Chess
Chess+
Shogi
Xiangqi
Congo
Dragonfly
Loonybird
Shakti
Caïssa
Chad
Yari Shogi
Rotary
Chakra
Chess960
Chess variants - general
- The Chess Variant Pages - indexThis extensive site, made by Hans Bodlaender and David Howe, may well be considered the alpha & omega of Chess variants.
- Play Chess VariantsIn their own words:
The best thing about Chess variants is being able to play them. This website, a subdomain of The Chess Variant Pages, is here to help you do just that. From this site, you can play games by email, you can play games on-line, and you can download games to play against your computer off-line. - Ed Friedlander's Chess Variant AppletsIn another subdomain of The Chess Variant Pages, Ed Friedlander, who programmed these applets, intends them to show some of the many chess variants, rather than to be strong opponents. Longer look-aheads would have caused delays and taken up too much memory. Ed has tried to choose games that are actually popular with players.
- Wiki - Chess variants
- Chessopolis - variants
Grand Chess
ChessV is an open-source, universal chess variant program for Windows PC with a graphical user-interface, sophisticated AI, support for opening books and other features of traditional chess programs. The developer of this program, Gregory Strong, has been adding more variants with each release of ChessV. Currently, over 50 chess variants are supported.
It is possible to customize the variants it supports. Of all chess variants currently supported, two of the most-played variants are Chess960 and Grand Chess.Download ChessV_094.zip 8.4MB * Download ChessV_README.txt 4KB * Download ChessV_Source_094.zip 9.1MB- Grand Chess - Wiki
- Grand Chess @ ig Game Center (live play)
- Grand Chess @ The Chess Variant Pages
- Grand Chess @ BrainKing (turnbased play)
- Grand Chess - Traditional Chess variants, as rated by Grandmaster Larry Kaufman
Note that the author Benedikt Rosenau ranks Grand Chess among the traditionals. We're flattered :) - Benjamin Auder's Chess Site features Grand Chess
- Grand Chess @ ZillionsGrand Chess is included with the Zillions v.2.0 game machine.
Read a review in Hans Bodlaender's Chess Variants Pages. - Eric Joyce's Grand Chess program
- Grand Chess' entry at BoardGameGeek
- Grand Chess forum post at 100squares.org
- Grand Chess - play against a computer @ PathGuy.com
- A Korean Grand Chess site
Chess+
Shogi - international
- Shogi @ The Chess variant Pages
- Shogi - Wiki
- Shogi.NetPieter Stouten's Shogi pages.
- Shogi.Net - variant softwareA subdomain of Pieter Stouten's Shogi pages.
- Phil Holland's Shogi page
- Federation of European Shogi Associations (FESA)
Shogi - dutch / nederlands
Xiangqi - international
- Xiangqi @ The Chess Variant Pages
- Xiangqi - Wiki
- World Xiangqi Federation
- Club XiangqiIn this elabotate Xiangqi site you can play the game online (turnbased).
Xiangqi - dutch / nederlands
Congo
- Congo @ ZillionsCongo has been implemented on the Zillions game machine.
- Congo @ The Chess Variant Pages
- Congo @ BoardGameGeek
- Implementierung eines Congo-Spielers (pdf) - german / deutschStudienarbeit von Andreas Knab - Abteilung für Grundlagen der Künstlichen Intelligenz - Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 15. Mai 2007.
- Congo - chinese wiki
Dragonfly
Loonybird
Shakti
- ig Game Center (live play)
- A Shakti program for the MacA free downloadable Mac program by Joe Strout.
- Shakti @ The Chess Variant Pages
- Shakti's entry @ BoardGameGeek
Caïssa
- Caïssa @ ZillionsCaïssa has been implemented on the Zillions game machine.
- Caïssa @ The Chess Variant Pages
- In the 2003 CodeClub Challenge, Caïssa was subject of the annual game programming contest in the Netherlands.
Chad
- Chad - wiki
- Chad @ ZillionsChad has been implemented on the Zillions game machine, as well as its hexagonal version Zillions Hexchad.
- Chad @ The Chess Variant Pages
Yari Shogi
- Yari Shogi - Wiki
- Yari Shogi - ChessWiki
- Yari Shogi @ The Chess Variant Pages
- Shogi VariantsSteve Evans' Shogi variants program currently features 17 variants, including Yari Shogi, and a computer opponent. However, the executables produced by this compiler can no longer run on modern 64-bit operating systems.
Rotary
Chakra
Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
- Chess960 - Wiki
- Fischer Random Chess - The Chess Variant Pages
- Fischer Random Chess presets for Game Courier
- Chess-960.org database
- Chess960@myChess
- Chess960.com - Chess Tigers (german / deutsch)
- Rules of Chess960 (by Eric van Reem)
- Rules of Chess960 (by David A. Wheeler)
- Castling in Chess960 - An appeal for simplicity