2 variants
Updated 5/1/01
Play chess at right angles!
Black moves from left to right.
Angle Chess can also be played without a computer! => see rules
6 variants
Use your bank account wisely!
You may move any of your pieces off the board and re-insert it to an empty place any time later.
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27 variants (updated 11/1/01)
- Pawns that may also move sideways, backwards or two steps forward.
- Pawns that also promote at the side of the board.
- Pawns that capture only forward (and others that capture NEE and NWW).
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1 variant (created June 2009)
The bishop may go 1 step orthogonally onto an empty position.
2 variants
A hole in the centre of the board swallows anything that goes there....
Pieces that fall into the Black Hole can be re-inserted any time later.
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2 variants
A neutral bubble pops up at each place a piece moved from.
The bubbles limit the range of the chess pieces, but they also protect them.
In one variant you can pop one bubble per move.
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described by Godly Godfly and Fergus Deniho
4 variants each (updated Dec 18, 2002)
Similar to Transfer Chess, but with
additional rules which board is played when.
4 variants
When you capture a piece, the position you start from becomes unavailable for further play.
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2 variants
You can eat your own....but you are rewarded.
In one variant you can re-insert the pieces, in the other you get one free turn.
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3 variants
Bishops and/or Rooks change piecetype.
(created 25 Dec 05)
When checked, the player has to sacrifice a piece.
When checked, the player has to sacrifice a piece.
4 variants
King, Queen, Bishop and Rook may jump like in Checkers.
In some variants the Pawns may also jump.
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CHESS II, THE RESURRECTION
1 variant
This new chess game gives the player a second chance: on capture some pieces become another.
1 variant per chess piece set / board combi.
Add your own favourite chess pieces!
CHESS WITH OPENING BOOKS (V15.0)
Once thought impossible by many people, this is a first for Zillions !
(updated 22 Apr 2007)
7 selection screens with 75 opening books.
2 variants:
"Monochromatic Chess" : pieces can only move to same-coloured squares.
21 variants
Standard Chess with cloaked and/or invisible pieces.
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15 variants
If possible, a piece needs a companion to be allowed to move.
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CONVEYOR-BELT CHESS
by Dennis Van Straten
4 variants (created 14 Feb 07)
rows 3 and 4 move after each standard chess move.
10 variants
Pawns move (to an empty square) like a Queen (Rook, Bishop, Knight, King)
In some variants only sideways and forward moves are allowed.
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2 variants
You capture opposite to where you move -
if that does not make you cross-eyed!
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2 variants
An enemy piece diagonally opposite a Pawn with be immediately eliminated.
In variant 2 any enemy piece adjacent to a pawn is eliminated.
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1 variant
The Pawns act as deflectors for the Rooks, Bishops and Queens
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(updated 1 Feb 03)
4 variants
Left board shows board two half moves earlier.
Current board (partially) cloaked.
(updated 30/9/2006)
2 variants
An invisible dictator tells you which type of piece to use.
The piece type is selected randomly at each turn (variant 2: every second turn)
Red squares indicate the selected piece type.
Play chess on a double size board with two sets of pieces,
but checkmate only one of the kings.
Rules
9 variants
You have a second partial move,
but only under certain conditions.
Rules
2 variants
Pieces have additional evasive moves.
A pawn can make two or three moves at a time.
This speeds the game up considerably.
(However, the Zillions engine plays it very badly!)
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20 variants: Twenty unusual chess starting positions
Each of the twenty variants uses all 32 standard chess pieces.
The a-file and h-files are empty.
Hence the kings are more vulnerable than in standard chess.
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updated 2 Aug 2007
The piece moves last immobilizes any piece it attacks.
The variant DEEP FREEZE CHESS is included in FREEZE CHESS.
In DEEP FREEZE CHESS all attacked pieces are immobilized.
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When you cross the river to the underworld, you cannot come back.
2 variants
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Solitaire game
11 variants
Black makes two (variants: up to twelve) random moves per turn.
How many random black moves per turn can you allow and still win?
1 variant
Pawns can capture many pieces in one turn.
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2 variants
Every head of the Hydra beast grows back...
until it finally dies.
A captured piece can be reinserted as a piece of less value.
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5 variants
(created 6 April 2003)
Standard chess board with some connections between squares missing.
You can also create your own version.
(updated 30 June 2003)
10 variants
10 variants
Capturing pieces are promoted (or demoted in two variants).
Knights cannot jump, but only limp:
The corresponding orthogonally adjacent square must be empty.
3 variants
In the variants, a Knight can jump only over friendly (enemy) pieces.
2 variants
Pieces can ride on the magic carpet to any empty place on the board.
In variant 2 an empty magic carpet can be moved as well.
4 variants
Pieces change depending on the tile they move to.
Pawns do not change.
Ever seen pawns running backwards?
4 variants
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Ever wanted to meddle with your opponent's pieces?
2 variants
In ONE-TWO CHESS you move once with your opponent's pieces, then twice with your pieces. In TWO-ONE CHESS, the second variant, you move twice with your pieces, then once with your opponent's pieces.
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2 variants
The pieces move only forwards or sideways, until they reach the other border. In one variant they then reverse direction, in the other they turn into standard chess pieces.
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(updated 5 Oct 06 : computer now plays very well!)
2 variants
Two wandering critters eat chess pieces.
In variant 2 they are domesticated.
32 variants
You may pass a move to use it later.
Depending on the variant, you can save up to eight moves.
In four variants, you cannot take the king with a spare move.
In some variants the spare moves can only be used by a certain piece type.
1 variant
If a player captures a piece, the opponent can move
a piece twice.
This is also a great game without a computer!
3 variants (updated 18 Jan 05)
The player points out which piece should move.
The system then randomly select a move with this piece.
In the default variant capturing moves have priority.
The player points out which piece should move.
The system then randomly select a move with this piece.
In the default variant capturing moves have priority.
1 variant (created 26 May 07)
Captured pawns can be reinserted.
Pawns get more powerful with each capture.
Captured pawns can be reinserted.
Pawns get more powerful with each capture.
3 variants
Any piece promotes at the eighth rank.
In variant 2 and 3, pieces promote up or down in value.
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2 variants
One of your pieces has to reach the other side of the board.
In variant 2 this piece must be safe from being captured.
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SETUP-CHESS (V2.0)
2 random variants
which pieces are the black pieces.
1 variant
Each piece type has a certain number of steps it can go..
2 variants
A captured piece is stored and can be reinserted at a later time.
The reinserted piece cannot move, but captures as usual.
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1 variant
A captured piece is stored and can be reinserted at a later time.
The reinserted piece cannot move, but captures as usual.
created 4 Jan 07 (1 variant)
adjacent pieces of own colour pass on moving power.
Play chess on two boards and transfer captured pieces to the other board.
The variants SWAP CHESS and PARALLEL CHESS
are included in TRANSFER CHESS.
In SWAP CHESS only the latest captured piece is allowed to be kept in storage.
In PARALLEL CHESS no transferring is allowed at all. Rules
3 variants
Friendly pieces or enemy pieces or both are transparent:
You may land beyond them at any empty square.
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2 variants
The more enemies a piece has captured,
the more additional partial moves it can make.
In variant 2 only the last partial move can capture.
2 variants
If possible, you play a second similar move with a similar piece.
In variant 2 the second move is optional.
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27 variants (updated Nov 2008)
Play chess backwards from a given position to the standard starting position.
Ideal chess tool for retrograde analysis.
V3.0 now with lots of chess knowledge and many retro problems!
WHALE-SHOGI
1 variant (created 6 Sep 07)
invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger
Watch out for the Killer-Whale!