Authors Starting with L

• Matthew La Vallee [info] Alfaerie Expansion Set 6. Missing description Rennaissance Chess II. Missing description
• Sébastien Lachance [info] NetBlitz Chess Program. Plays bughouse.
• Hubert Lamontagne [info] The Bridge41. 41 square board with bridge in the middle. (5x9, Cells: 41)
• Jordan Lampe [info] Froghouse. Like Bughouse except each team has a Black, White, and Green. Green goes "in between", namely after white but before black. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Alexander Lange [info] Quivira Font. Unicode, TrueType font containing historical chess piece characters.
• Fred Lange [info] Megachess. Played on 6 boards arranged in a 2 by 3 grid. (24x16, Cells: 384)
• Kerry Langford [info] CHESSAGON. CHESSAGON® is like traditional Chess, but with Triangles, with one new additional piece named the Duke.
• Claude Lapointe [info] Chess 99. Game with 9 pawns and a paladin. The objective is to capture the opponent's king. Many rules altered.
• Ted Larson Freeman [info] Two Move Chess. Designed to alleviate the first move advantage for White using double moves, while retaining the tactics of international chess.
• Stephen Larson [info] Keyles. Large variant with special king capture rule. Variant of Quex. (10x10, Cells: 100) Quex. Large variant on 10 by 10 board with 11 different pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100)
• H. T. Lau [info] Chinese Chess. Information on book on Xiangqi. Chinese Chess. Book on the fundamentals of Chinese Chess.
• Eugen Laukamp [info] Chessoids: SuperPawn and NeutronChess. A large and complicated chess variant. (11x10, Cells: 111) The Marine Game. Small wargame, simulating a sea battle.
• Bill LaVanway [info] Hexchess. Another hexagonal chess variant with closer resemblance to orthodox chess. (Cells: 69)
• Rhonan Lavieri [info] Chess with Batteries Sample Game 1 . Sample game of Roberto Lavieri vs. Rhonan Lavieri. Chess with Batteries Sample Game 2 . Sample game of Rhonan Lavieri vs. Roberto Lavieri. Maxima . Download this file to see a sample game of Maxima!
• Roberto Lavieri [info] Achernar. ACHERNAR is a mix of the game ALTAIR and Western Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) Alpha Centauri. A very complex game, somewhat exotic, with some elements from Rococo. (9x9, Cells: 81) Altair. Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor. (9x9, Cells: 81) , more...
• John Lawson [info] The Pizza Kings. An experimental army for Chess with Different Armies, with lots of calories. This Game is for the Birds. Game where pieces fly past obstacles and some pieces capture by pecking. (8x8, Cells: 64) Chu Shogi pictures. Photos of a commercial Chu Shogi set., more...
• Mike Layfield [info] Hexes Chess . Link: Hexagonal Chess in 54 hexes, using orthodox pieces. Includes enhanced Pawn movement and castling. The board is elongated.&. Hexes Compressed Chess . Link: This version of Hexagonal Chess has rotated cells so that the angles point up and down. Hexes Chess. Hexes Chess now available for play on the Game Courier!, more...
• Stephen Leary [info] Chinese Chess variant for 7 players. Missing description (19x19, Cells: 361) Five Tigers. A Chinese Chess variant with unequal armies. (9x10, Cells: 90) Information on Chinese Chess playing cards. Missing description, more...
• Bruce Leban [info] d10 Chess. Roll a ten sided die (d10) every turn to determine which pieces may be moved. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Albert Lee [info] Amazonia. 11x11 board with Pawns that promote to Princesses in the middle of the board. Ascension. 6x6 board with two Kings that promote to royal Queens. Bishops Chess. Chess with two light-squared and two dark-squared Bishops on each side., more...
• Daniel Lee [info] Chak. A modern vision of what a Mayan chess would look like. Chennis. Kyoto-Shogi-inspired variant (with alternating piece sides), with a tennis theme. Empire Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like queens but capture differently., more...
• Flynn Leek [info] Messenger Chess. A quick, dynamic variant. It adds one new piece, the Courier, which is necessary to win. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Mark Leff [info] Chipps. Let all pieces gain a chip by moving to the other side of 4 by 8 board. (4x8, Cells: 32) Upchess. Pieces moves depend on which rank piece is on on 11 by 11 board. (11x11, Cells: 121)
• Trevor Leggett [info] Shogi : Japan's Game of Strategy. Missing description
• Dave Leigh [info] Jedi Chess. Maharajah and the Sepoys modified with a Star Wars theme. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Jeremy Lennert [info] For the Crown. A commercial crossover with deck-building games. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Paul Leno [info] Gridlock. Large, wargame inspired variant. (10x10, Cells: 100) Gridlock Chapter 2. Missing description Gridlock Chapter 3. Missing description, more...
• Erik Lerouge [info] Wildebeest Decimal Chess. A Wildebeest Chess adaptation to the decimal board.
• Andrew LeRoy [info] Checkismate. Put the King in check to win. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Robert LeRoy [info] Global Chess. A chess game played on a board composed of two rotating disks. (2x(), Cells: 64) Vortex Chess. Ortho-chess with the inclusion of a new piece: the Portal.
• Matthieu Leschemelle [info] Chess Cases: True type chess font . True type chess font used in Problemiste.
• John Leslie [info] Hostage Chess. Pieces taken are held hostage and can be exchanged against other pieces and then dropped. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Tactical Hints for Hostage Chess. Missing description Sample games of Hostage Chess. Missing description
• Dominique Leste [info] Arch-Chancellor Chess. Uses Archbishops instead of Bishops and Chancellors instead of Knights. (8x8, Cells: 64) Archbishop Chess. Variation of Janus Chess and Bird's Chess with two Archbishops. (10x8, Cells: 80) General and Arch-General Chess. Variations of Birds' Chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) , more...
• Yannick Létourneau [info] NetBlitz Chess Program. Plays bughouse.
• Sidney LeVasseur [info] King's Court. Variant on 8 by 12 board with Chancellors and Jesters. (12x8, Cells: 96) King's Court . Commercial chess variant on 12 by 8 board based on the historical Courier chess. Royal Court. On 8 by 10 board with crowned knights: can move like king or knight. (10x8, Cells: 80)
• Andy Lewicki [info] Chelma. A cross between Chess and Halma. (8x8, Cells: 64) Cheversi. A mix of chess pieces and reversi-like strategy. (8x8, Cells: 64) Cheversi Solitaire. Solitaire version of Cheversi. (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
• John Kipling Lewis [info] Backwards Stalemate Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Castling in Chess 960. New castling rules for Fischer Random Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Chess 4.5. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
• tilera Ley [info] Quark Chess. Missing description
• Peter E. Leyva [info] Palace Revolution. Variant on 44 square board with Templar Knights and Squire Pawns. (7x8, Cells: 44)
• Peter E. Leyva [info] Chess Is Wild. Pieces acquire special moves in the inner 16 squares. (8x8, Cells: 64) Field Chess. On an 8x12 board with 8 extra pieces per side (Archers). (8x12, Cells: 96) Highlander Chess. Instead of taking, pieces can be challenged with dice; winning piece absorbs powers. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Fabrice Liardet [info] Ambiguous Chess. A modest variant, similar to Refusal Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• David Lichtenstein [info] Dragonchess Games. Sample games of Dragonchess.
• David Li [info] Books on Kriegspiel. Missing description First Syllabus on Xiangqi - Chinese Chess 1. Missing description Chess Detective: Kriegspiel Strategies, Endgames and Problems. Missing description, more...
• Armin Liebhart [info] Judkin's Shogi. Modern small shogi variant preset. Minishogi. A Minishogi association has existed, and may still exist, in Osaka.
• Daniel Lindstrvm [info] Yalta. A three player chess variant. (Cells: 96)
• Austin Lockwood [info] SchemingMind.com Internet Correspondence Chess Club . Missing description
• Daniel Elliott Loeb [info] Information on METAGAME Game-Playing Workbench. Information on tool for game programs.
• Juraj Lörinc [info] Kriegspiel solving competition. Problem solving competition. Pocket pieces thematic tourney C 30.4.2002. Chess problem composition tournament. Closing date April 30, 2002. Black Holes. On 5 by 8 board with holes as pieces which also can be used for transport. (5x8, Cells: 40) , more...
• John Love-Jensen [info] Progression. Instead of promoting, pawns gain powers when they advance. (8x8, Cells: 64) SuperKing. Kings can move like queens, but not through check. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Edward Lovett [info] Chess Cards - Graphics. Instructions and pictures for your own set of Chess Cards. Chess Cards Scoresheet. Print your own scoresheet for the Chess Cards game. Chess Cards. Cardgame with chess flavor., more...
• Halfen Ludith [info] Tjatoer!. A chess variant written in Python, designed to stress test engines.
• Johnny Luken [info] Abalonian Chess. johnnyluken. (8x8, Cells: 64) Expanded Chess 256. The Chess experience upscaled to a larger board. (16x16, Cells: 256) Infima. Missing description, more...
• James Lummel [info] Masking Chess. Mask and move pieces so they are invisible to the opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Florin Lupusoru [info] Black Swan. Pieces are replaced by Black Swans with unpredictable outcomes. (8x8, Cells: 64) Centurion Chess. Centurions replace the Kings. (10x10, Cells: 100) Fearsome Chess. Fear is the main rule. (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...