Authors Starting with D
- Arnaldo Rodrigues D'Almeida [info] Hexagonal Round Chess. Combined Byzantine Chess with Rex Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) REX Hexagonal Chess. Six Direction Chess. (Cells: 85) Rex: Six Direction Chess . Six Direction Chess., more...
- Richard D.B.M. [info] Checker-Pawn Chess. Pawns are replaced by Anglo-American Checkers pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- daJorge [info] Schachogi. Combination of Chess and Shogi. (German Language)
- David Dana-Bashian [info] Crazyhouse Kriegspiel. Combines Crazyhouse with Kriegspiel. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Charles Daniel [info] Asylum Chess. 3 new unique pieces: fire-through rooks, double-capture knights, leaping bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100) Asylum Redux. Two new pieces: dual path sliding Zebra + Bishop and a dual path sliding Camel + Rook. (10x10, Cells: 100) Basic Chess. Variable baseline chess without drawing lots. Restrict Rooks to a and h files, and King to d or e files., more...
- Craig Daniel [info] Battle Chieftain Chess. Warriors and a king fight on a board with walls and holes. (10x11, Cells: 84)
- Nader Daou [info] Historical Chess Variants . A document describing several historical chess variants.
- Benoit Dauphin [info] Dervish Chess. Large variant with a great variety of pieces. (11x11, Cells: 121) Dervish Chess . Large variant with a great variety of pieces.
- John Davis [info] Internationalized Chinese Chess. Photos of a commercial Staunton set for playing Xiangqi, Janggi, and Chess.
- Michael D. Davis [info] Davis Variation of Suicide Chess. Win by checkmate or by loosing your pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Terrance Davis [info] Paper Shogi Board and Tokens Craft Project. Free Shogi game PDFs of several styles of boards and Shogi pieces that you can print out and use to make your own Shogi board.
- T. R. Dawson [info] Five Classics of Fairy Chess. Missing description
- Michiel de Bondt [info] Cannibal Chess and Absorption Chess. Pieces gain the powers of a piece they take. (8x8, Cells: 64) A Kick the King chess problem. What happens if we remove check and stalemate rules and win by taking the king? Mutual stalemate with all pieces. Construct a mutual stalemate setup using all 32 pieces., more...
- dead dead [info] . Adds rifle-capturing archers and royalty-inheriting princes. Never-Ending Infinite Sandbox Chess Game. Online forum-based chess game with 12 players, infinite board, and many pieces. Chess variants fandom wiki. Fandom wiki for chess variants.
- Patrick Degan [info] Fidechel. Unique styled chess pieces and 3D chess game in development.
- Gerd P. Degens [info] Avatar Chess. Game with avatars that can assume any piece of chess, depending on the fields of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) Avatar Riff Riders. Overcome the reef on an Avatar basis. (11x11, Cells: 110) Borderline. Without pawns, with only one king, capturing opponent's pieces is omitted. (7x7, Cells: 49) , more...
- Maurice Dekker [info] d4 d6 chess. Dice determine the number of steps you can move with your piece. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Bernie 'Major Fun' DeKoven [info] Major FUN's Daily Briefings Article on the Chess Variant Pages. Article on the Chess Variant Pages.
- Ivan Derzhanski [info] Cardmate. Chess variant on board with 100 squares, inspired by card games. (10x10, Cells: 100) Hexabeast. Hexagonal chess variant with six animal pieces, by Ivan A. Derzhanski. (Cells: 70) Russian Chess. Pieces are not removed when captured, but stacked. (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
- A. M. DeWitt [info] A. M. DeWitt's Chu Shogi SVGs. A. M. DeWitt's SVG Graphics for Chu Shogi. (8x8, Cells: 64) Banner Xiangqi. Xiangqi with Banners (from the Game of Three Kingdoms) and simplified endgame rules. Cannon Shosu Shogi. Variant of Shosu Shogi with Dogs and Cannons., more...
- Anthony Dickins [info] A Guide to Fairy Chess. Book first published in 1967.
- Matthew R. Dickinson [info] Hexagonal Chess Set. Home made set of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess.
- Gerben Dirksen [info] Dutch Chess. Different objective and piece movements with orthodox chess set. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Petar Djurickovic [info] Short Leaper Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Jacek Dobrzyniecki [info] Makarenko's Chess. Pieces are stacks which can be split and combined to create other pieces.
- Mykola Dolgalov [info] Omega Chess Extended . Missing description
- Hernán Marcelo Domínguez Placencia [info] Hanga Roa. A chess variant inspired by the people of Easter Island. (9x9, Cells: 81) Hanga Roa en Espa. Missing description
- Marc A. Donis [info] Discochess. Distributed Chess.
- Ian Douglas [info] Douglas Modern chess. A chess variant with a more interesting start position, leading to more action.
- Keith Douglas [info] Infinite Board Chess. Imagine the board is an infinite grid.
- Bishop Drax [info] MANEVAR a.k.a. Maneuver. Game with infantry, cavalry, and archers and multiple moves per turn. (13x12, Cells: 156)
- Davey W Drehs [info] Execute! the Game. Pieces have unique abilities and uses dice-based combat.
- Ronald Drinning [info] Deployment. The initial setup of the pieces is open but hidden from the other player. (8x8, Cells: 64) Off Board Chess Pieces. Each side has off board pieces which can be used only once in a game. Terrain Chess. Roll dice to create impassable squares. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Eric Driscoll [info] ICBM Chess. I(inter)-C(hess)B(oard) M(issle) Chess, where you can throw a piece to capture as well as make normal moves. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Henk Drost [info] Simplified Makpong. Makruk variant.
- Michel Drouilly [info] GenDiagW: a Word macro to make chess diagrams . A Word macro to make chess diagrams.
- Stan Druben [info] Lancelot. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) M-Chess. Pieces change movement capabilities depending on the column they occupy. (8x8, Cells: 64) Zelig Chess. Game where the power of the pieces varies based on their position. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Laurent Dubois [info] Chaotic (Polymorphous) Chess. Play Chess with dice and flip the dice each turn to mutate the pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) ZZ-Chess . Large variant with a new zig-zag piece.
- Sean Christopher Duggan [info] Duggan's Fantasy Chess. Game where usual pieces become mercenaries, horsemen, golems, assassins and adapts. (8x8, Cells: 64) Duggan's Fantasy Chess (revised). Revised and Improved version of fantasy Chess variant. (8x8, Cells: 64) Double Chess . On 16 by 8 board., more...
- George William Duke [info] CHESS MORALITY IX: Sacrifice. Missing description Chess Morality VI: Promotion. Missing description CHESS MORALITY VII: Moving Pieces. Missing description, more...
- Fergus Duniho [info] 84 Spaces Contest. 84 Spaces Contest begins! Game Courier Tournament #1. A multi-variant tournament played on Game Courier. Game Courier Tournament #2. Sign up for our 2nd multi-variant tournament to be played all on Game Courier., more...
- Georg Dunkel [info] Bushi shogi. Shogi variant on a two-square board! Bushi means Samurai. Gufuu Shogi . Tiny variant on a 2x3 board with four pieces. Nana-Shogi. Shogi variant on a tiny board.
- Jeremy Dunn [info] Cursed Chess. Squares where a piece is taken become forbidden for the capturing player. (8x8, Cells: 64)
- Ross Durossette [info] Siege Chess. A hexagonal three-player chess variant. (Cells: 192)
- Richard D.B.M. [info] Checker-Pawn Chess. Pawns are replaced by Anglo-American Checkers pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)