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Chess of Hormuz is a tactical chess variant played on an 8×9 board where the center rank is blocked by indestructible walls, leaving only a narrow 2-file gap open in the middle. With both flanks permanently sealed, standard forces and elite fairy pieces—the Amazon, Archbishop, Chancellor, and Centaur—must fight head-on through a brutal central choke-point. There is no castling, and the Kings start aligned directly down the open channel.

Uploaded by: Hailstorm
Board: 8 × 9
Games: 35

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Chrząszczyżewoszyce chess

chrzaszcz

Variant in the spirit of Hoppel-Poppel and New Zealand, rooks capture like bishops, bishops capture like rooks. In the standard piece set piece at the bottom is how the piece moves, at the top is how it captures.

Uploaded by: e-pluszak
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 5

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Mini Makruk House v2

mnimak_v2

A compact 5×6 fusion of Makruk and Crazyhouse. Capture pieces to add them to your pocket, then drop them back onto the board to create fresh tactical opportunities.

Uploaded by: Hailstorm
Board: 5 × 6
Games: 15

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Dragonfly

dragonfly

Simplified Crazyhouse. Special pawn promotion rules from the original definition are not implemented. Credits to Procyon for the definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(chess_variant)

Uploaded by: gbtami
Board: 7 × 7
Games: 20

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Mini Makruk House

mnimakhouse

A compact 5×6 fusion of Makruk and Crazyhouse. Capture pieces to add them to your pocket, then drop them back onto the board to create fresh tactical opportunities.

Uploaded by: Hailstorm
Board: 5 × 6
Games: 23

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Connect6 chess

connect6chess

Connect 6 pieces or checkmate to win. Horizontal connecting doesn't count though

Uploaded by: Rom142857
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 7

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Charge of the Light Brigade

clb

This variant is from https://www.chessvariants.com/invention/charge-of-the-light-brigade. The main point of it is that Black is supposedly winning even though it would seem like White is winning if you just count the material points. By the way, White can only Promote to Queen, and Black can only Promote to Knight.

Uploaded by: PraseodymiumSpike
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 9

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Frontline King Crazyhouse 2

pocketarmory-2

A highly chaotic Crazyhouse variant starting with both Kings fully exposed on e4 and e5. You must immediately drop pocket pieces to survive instant checkmates from turn one.

Uploaded by: testkahm768
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 57

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Shaolin King

shaolinking

All the rules of standard Chess apply except that (1) the King is replaced with the Shaolin Master, described below, (2) the game is won if a Pawn reaches the final rank ("Pawn-mate"), and (3) stalemate is a loss for the stalemated player. Unlike the standard Chess King, the Shaolin Master flips between two alternate forms when moved. The Shaolin Master starts in the first form that moves and captures as Chess Queen. The second form moves and captures as the Quetzal in Chak, i.e., a Janggi Cannon that can move both orthogonally and diagonally. Castling is performed by moving the Shaolin Master onto the Rook if normal castling conditions are met in either the standard setup or 960.

Uploaded by: gbtami
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 19

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