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Recognized chess variants: What are considered to be the `best chess variants'?	Oriental chess variants: Xiangqi (Chinese Chess), Shogi (Japanese Chess), variants, other oriental chess variants.
❤ Member favorites: What have members of these pages chosen as their favorites?	Historic chess variants: The first predecessor of chess: Chaturanga, Shatranj, and other chess variants from ancient times.
Boards with an unusual shape Three dimensional chess variants: Star Trek and others	Multi player variants: Chess with 3, 4, 6, 7 or any number of players.
Hexagonal chess variants	Small chess variants: Chess on board of size 4 by 8, 6 by 6, etc.
Round boards	Large chess variants: Chess on boards of 9 by 9 or larger.
Other boards with an unusual shape	Chess variants with unequal armies: Variants where white and black have a different set of pieces.
Chess variants with usual equipment: Those variants that can be played with (mainly) a usual 8 by 8 board, and usual pieces. Different moving pieces. Moving your opponents pieces. Multi-move variants. Rules about the board. Winning in a different way. Different opening setups Capturing in a different way Other variants Modest variants	Other chess variants: Wargames and Hierarchical games. Chess with cards. Chess with dice. Crossovers. Variants that borrow ideas or rules from, or combine with other games. Chess with incomplete information. Kriegspiel and its variants. Other variants. Everything that didn't fit in another category: with several nice ones!
Themes: Chess Variants organized by which theme they're based on.	Commercial: Links to sites of commercial publishers of chess variants.
Chess: the F.I.D.E. variant: The queen of games, and of all chess variants: chess itself.	Books and periodicals: Paper sources for information on chess variants.
Computer resources: Zillions of Games files Programs that play chess variants Java Programs Zillions of Games files by Image Desktop publishing resources and fonts Preview Fonts Computer graphics	Problems, puzzles, positions, and pieces: Fairy chess problems and more.
Piececlopedia: An encyclopedia documenting numerous fairy chess pieces. (Articles on Pieces)	Links: Links to sites outside of the Chess Variant Pages. (Links by date added)
Contests and Tournaments (by date)
Contributors: A list of people who have contributed material to these pages. Our thanks go out to all those who contributed!	Editors: The volunteers who run this site and publish the web pages.
Commentary and Ratings Commented or Rated Items Most recent comments or ratings
Miscellaneous information and other links: Organisations. AISE, NOST, and other organisations where you can play chess variants. Websites. Personal websites which feature chess variants. Interviews. Questions and answers with various people involved with chess variants. Polls Contests. The Chess Variant Pages Offline. Download many files at the same time, and read them without being on the Internet. Or get a CDrom with all the files on it. Chess Variant oriented fiction. Stories and other fictional writings on the subject of chess variants. Photo's of chess variant sets , and chess stamps. Crafts. Making your own chess variant sets. News. Gossip, press releases, and more news items on chess variants. New chess variant ideas. Discussion on experimental ideas for chess variants. A Glossary of Basic Chess Variant Terms. A core glossary of terms used in the Chess Variant world. The Concise Guide to Chess Variants. A guide which attempts to briefly describe or define the various terms, phrases and names in common use relating to the subject of chess variants. Yahoo! Clubs chessvariants. Our Official club at Yahoo. The place to discuss chess variants. (Link.) Looking to buy some chess variant games or books? Give the Chess Variant Pages Shop a visit! Language Pages Dutch Language Pages | (what's new) Spanish Language Pages | (what's new) Russian Language Pages | (what's new) Italian Language Pages | (what's new) German Language Pages | (what's new) French Language Pages | (what's new) Chinese Language Pages | (what's new) Japanese Language Pages | (what's new) Non-English Language Pages | (what's new)
Subject Index 0-9 3 dimensional 3 player 4 player -A- About Us Advertisement policy Ancient Asian Awards -B- Board rules Books -C- Capturing Cards Chess Chinese Circular Club Commented Items Comments Commercial Computer graphics Contact Us Contests Contests, by date Contributions1 Contributions2 Contributors Copyrights Crafts Crossovers -D- Desktop publishing Dice Discussion group Dutch Language -E- Eastern Editors -F- Feedback Feedback page Fiction FIDE chess Financial information Fonts Fonts, preview Four-player French Language -G- German Language Glossary Graphics -H- Help Us Hexagonal Hierarchical Historic History (of chessvariants.com) Home -I- Incomplete information Interviews Italian Language -J- Japanese Java Programs -K- -L- Large Links Links by date -M- Main page Magazines Member submitted pages Membership Miniature Miscellaneous Miscellaneous information Modest variants Moving opponents pieces Moving pieces Multi-player Multi-move -N- New chess variant ideas New items News Non-English Language -O- Organisations Oriental Orthodox Chess Other variants Other usual variants -P- Pamphlets People Periodicals Photographs Piececlopedia Pieces Pieces, articles on Play Play by email Polls Positions Post Your Own Game Post Your Own Zillions Problems Programs Publishing resources Puzzles -Q- -R- Rated Items Ratings Recognized Round boards Russian Language -S- Setups Shape Shop Small Spanish Language Store Submit Your Own Game Submit Your Own Zillions -T- Themes Three dimensional Three-player Tournaments Tournaments, by date -U- Unequal armies -V- Vote -W- Wargames Websites Western Chess What's New Winning -X- -Y- Yahoo! Group -Z- Zillions of Games Zillions of Games, by image Zillions, submit your own

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