Inventors Starting with G

• Silvia M. G. Rodrigues [info] xodul. Ten different pieces, with some Shogi and Xiangqi inspirations.
• Richard Gadsden [info] Gadsden's Toroidal Chess. Edges of the board are considered to be adjacent. (8x8, Cells: 64) Gadsden's Toroidal Chess . Edges of the board are considered to be adjacent.
• John Gallez [info] Contact Chess. Connecting pieces enhances movement, attack and defense. Powerful pawns and kings.
• John Gallicano [info] Self Eliminator. You are allowed to take your own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Fred Galvin [info] Compromise Chess. Propose two moves and your opponent selects one for you. (8x8, Cells: 64) Compromisschaak (Compromise Chess). Elke beurt moet een speler twee zetten noemen, waaruit de tegenstander kiest welke hij moet doen. (Dutch Language) Doublemove chess. Move twice per turn, with by King capture, not checkmate. (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
• Armis Game [info] Armis. 100 square board with 15 piece types.
• T. Garai [info] Helpmate in Two. Missing description
• Jeremy Gardiner [info] Capture-the-King. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Monte Carlo Chess. Random movement variant. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Martin Gardner [info] Hexapawn. Martin Gardner's miniature game of three pawns vs the pawns. (3x3, Cells: 9) Miniature Chess. From an old Martin Gardner column in "Scientific American". Baby Chess. Play this small 5x5 variant on Jocly., more...
• John Garwood [info] Combat Chess II. A wargame-like chess variant. (8x8, Cells: 64) Scrabble Battle Chess. Complicated game that uses a scrabble set, dice, playing cards with magic spells, pieces that move queenlike.
• John W. Gast [info] Gast's Chess. Large 1969 variant using the Cardinal (Guard) and the Chancellor (Archer). (12x12, Cells: 144) Gast Chess. Large 1969 variant using the Cardinal (Guard) and the Chancellor (Archer).
• Topher Gayle [info] Chicken Chess. Combines Losing and Benedict Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) Full House. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64)
• William Geary [info] Reflex Chess. Force your opponent to mate you. (8x8, Cells: 64) Reflex Chess. Force your opponent to checkmate.
• Donald irvin Gebhart [info] TriChess . is a hexogonal, three player variant, created and distributed by PrimeChess Oy. Imperial Chess I. Four-player game on circular board, also called Chez. TriChezz. Chess for three on a circular board. Classic proprietary game.
• Peter Gelman [info] Monkey King Chess. Monkey King fights Goblin King on 44 squares board in game with oriental influences. (5x8, Cells: 44) Monkey King Chess. Monkey King fights Goblin King on 44 squares board in game with oriental influences.
• Prussia General [info] Hidden Random Chess. This is a two-player game that incorporates the element of chance in chess. StrataChess v1.0. separate Strategic and Tactical gameplay. 2-6 players. Element of Chance. Terrain. Build your own armies.
• Travis Geyer [info] Tao's Chess. Chess variant where as you move across a line, the pieces reverse roles.
• Gary K. Gifford [info] The Bermuda Chess Angle. Pieces can vanish in a central grid (The Bermuda Chess Angle) depending on dice-determined coordinates. (10x10, Cells: 100) Binary 1010. Pieces alternate with their binary counterpart in regard to turning off and on. (10x10, Cells: 100) Bishop Knight Morph Factor. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
• Anthony Gill [info] Tokar's Arcana . Chess-variant like game with different armies. Commercial game.
• Rick Gillespie [info] Doubles Chess. A four-player game for two teams on an unusual board.
• Ross Gillies [info] Mystery Chess. An imperfect information variant you can play online with Game Courier.
• Herb Gilliland [info] Rolling Chess. A game played with dice, where movement causes rolling and rolling changes piece identity. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Charles Gilman [info] 12 Sharp Chess. 4-player versions of 10-or-more-file variants on cross-shaped boards. (12x12, Cells: 108) 125 Percent Shogi and 125 Percent Xiang Qi. 4-player versions of Oriental variants on cross-shaped boards. (15x15, Cells: 125) 16 Seasons Chess. 4-player variant combining FIDE and Leap Chess pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) , more...
• Bruce R. Gilson [info] Free Choice Chess. Large variant where players choose and deploy their own forces.
• Ed Ginsberg [info] Super Chess III . Big proprietary game with archers and cyclopses. (10x10, Cells: 100) Super Chess III. Big proprietary game with archers and cyclopses. Super Chess III . Big proprietary game with archers and cyclopses.
• Dietrich Gläß [info] Multichess. Four player chess variant.
• Dan Edje Gustav Glimne [info] Micro 4x5 Chess. Play this miniature Chess variant on Jocly.
• Wladyslaw Glinski [info] Ajedrez Hexagonal de Glinksi. Glinski's Hexagonal Chess page translated into Spanish. (Spanish Language) Les Echecs Hexagonaux de Glinski. Missing description Escacs Hexagonals de Glinksi. Glinski's Hexagonal Chess page translated into Catalonian. (Spanish Language), more...
• Paul Glover [info] 3D version of checkers, chess and shogi. 3D version of checkers, chess and shogi.
• Michael N Goldshteyn [info] Super Chess 1993. Missing description (14x14, Cells: 196)
• Solomon W. Golomb [info] Cheskers. Cross-variant between chess and checkers. (8x8, Cells: 64) Cheskers. The most popular cross between checkers and chess. Cheskers. Fun and simple crossover between chess and checkers invented by professor Solomon W. Golomb., more...
• Dmitriy Golub [info] chexx (Golub). Another variant of hexagonal chess. (Cells: 63)
• Ben Good [info] Ben 39. Pieces move on squares and corners of board with 37 fixed and two movable squares. (Cells: 39) Crazy 38's. On strange board with 38 squares. (Cells: 38) (Recognized!) Crazy 38's: Drops. Missing description, more...
• Richard Goode [info] The 3D Chess Webpage. An improved version of Raumschach. (Link.).
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] 2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!! 45 or 46 Cell Contest - 2007 Design Contest. Quick contest for 45 or 46 cells. Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2007.
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] 2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces that automatically flip into wyrd and not so strange counterparts. (10x8, Cells: 68)
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidal board using three warp lines with 8 corners tied together. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Ibu Ibu Chess. Introduces the concept of a King's entourage, making King powerful and protected. (8x8, Cells: 64) Royal Pawn. Missing description 2 Queen Rocky Horror Lycanthropic Chess. Featuring pieces with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] 65 Square Chess. FIDE chess but pretend there's another square smack dab in the middle. Actualized Potential Chess. Pieces exist where they are but also all along their routes or points of attack. Barbershop Quartet. Toroidal Variant with Dual Direction Bishops., more...
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Crooked Chess. Chess variant with pieces inspired by the Sissa piece.
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Each Piece Once Chess. Each turn, move as many as all your pieces, but only once! Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidally interwoven board using same number of squares and pieces as FIDE Chess. FIDE Chess Kamil. FIDE Chess but with extra pawns, extra bishops and a store of superpowerful pieces waiting to replace the regular ones., more...
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Hexagonal Chess with Hexagonalers. Missing description
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Hour Glass Chess. Small variant with simple pieces and hour glass shape. Hullabaloo. Fusion, fission game with drops, giant conglomerations and two types of activation. I'm a Ferz, Get Me Into There!. Inspired by title of Chas. Gilman's game, "I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here!" Object is to get your Ferz to Z5., more...
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Logical Followup to Duke of Rutland Chess and Some Others. Derivative of The Duke of Rutland's Chess with other compound pieces.
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Mamra Chess with Wuss. Variant combining very strong Mamra piece with weakening Wuss piece. Nightrider Armies. Nightriders replace rooks and nightrider compounds replace rook compounds in four variants.
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Pawnless vs. Pawnful FIDE. Which side do you think will win? The one with the queen or the one with the pawns?
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Royal Pawn Chess. Same as FIDE Chess, except the pawns in front of the kings are royal, meaning the object is to checkmate them and not the king. Stuck in the Middle with You. 3 Different Boards and 3 Different Armies! Tango Chess. Using triangulators that move as bishops and different types of pawns that can be repositioned by side spacious wazirs., more...
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Hikaru Nakamura. Current U.S. Champion is also accomplished at some variants.
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Complementarity - Part I. With Short Range Project in mind, list of a highly specific set of pieces defined by simplest compounds.
• Jeremy Gabriel Good [info] Cupid Chess 3. Pieces trace out geometrical patterns suggested by the way they are designed.
• Ulf Göransson [info] Skock. 64 pieces on an 8 x 8 board. Dice determine how far pieces can be moved. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Adam Goss [info] Chameleon Chess Redux. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Knights of the Round Table. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Tables Chess. Missing description (12x2, Cells: 24)
• Doug Grant [info] Displaced Grid Chess. A Grid Chess variant that allows kings to visit corners, etc.
• Perry Grant [info] Smess. Produced and sold in the early 70's by Parker Brothers. Arrows on squares determine direction pieces can move. (7x8, Cells: 56) (Recognized!) Smess. Play this Parker Brothers Chess variant on Jocly.
• Roberto Gravino [info] Circe Progressive Chess. The usual way in which Circe chess is played today. Circe Progressive Chess. Progressive variant where captured pieces return to their original square. Circe Vulcanici. Progressive Circe chess, units returning as in the non-progressive game, waiting if needed until the square becomes available.
• Don Green [info] Tic-Tac-chec. Get four chesspieces in a row on a 4 by 4 board. (4x4, Cells: 16)
• John Mantle Green [info] Mideast chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board, inspired by ancient Tamerlane chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) Nine square Chess. With additional `Joker' piece on nine by nine board. (9x9, Cells: 81) Mideastern Chess. Actually a California variant resembling "Tamurlane" chess., more...
• Mason Green [info] 10 Minute Melee. Score as many points during 10 minutes of time with regular chessset. (8x8, Cells: 64) Ladder Shogi. Shogi variant on 10 by 10 board where pieces climb the social ladder by multiple promotions. (10x10, Cells: 100) 10 Minute Melee. Missing description
• Bob Greenwade [info] Bob Greenwade's SVG Library. A collection of SVG piece images. Icon Clearinghouse 1. A collection of chess icons for all to use in Interactive Diagrams and Game Courier setups. Icon Clearinghouse 2. Part two features dozens of animal-based icons., more...
• Eric V. Greenwood [info] ArchCourier Chess. This game is Courier Chess expert Eric Greenwood's modernization of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) Courier Chess (modified). Missing description (8x12, Cells: 96) Eric's Great chess. Modern variant on historic large chess variant. (10x8, Cells: 80) , more...
• Lev Grigoriev [info] Board 8x8 Game Mix. Game with fairy Chess, Draughts & Lines of Action elements. (8x8, Cells: 64) Cavalry Queen Chess. Queen rides a horse and therefore it passively moves as Knight (but captures as usual). (8x8, Cells: 64) Chess on the Rope. 1d chess experimental variant with standard rules and variations. (1x21, Cells: 21) , more...
• Russell Grigsby [info] Chess 121. Large chess variant with Demo Dos-program. (11x11, Cells: 121)
• John Groeneman [info] Half Chess (32). On a 4 by 8 board without pawns. (4x8, Cells: 32) Half Chess. 4x8 board, plays well. Half Chess Pawnless. "If Chess is wine, Half Chess is brandy. "., more...
• Lev Vladimirovich Grolman [info] Grolman Chess. Game with sequential movement of pieces of the same color. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• W. D. Groman [info] Hyperchess. Photo's of hexagonal chess variant from 1971.
• Wolfgang Großkopf [info] Chamaeleon. Multiplayer variant with pieces moving differently depending on square color.
• N. N. Grushevsky [info] Byelorussian Cheskers. Crossover between chess and Russian draughts. (8x8, Cells: 64) Byelorussian Chesskers. Pieces promote to "Damkas" in this Chess Checkers Hybrid. Byelorussian Cheskers . Crossover between chess and Russian draughts.
• James Gryphon [info] Amalgamated Chess. Incorporates some aspects of historical variants, but uses only usual equipment. (8x8, Cells: 64) Amalgamated Chess. Missing description
• Holly Gummelt [info] The Sons of Mithra. Elaborate Fantasy variant with 13 different types of pieces per side. (10x10, Cells: 100) The Sons of Mithra. Computer program for playing fantasy variant.
• Michael Chang Gummelt [info] The Sons of Mithra. Elaborate Fantasy variant with 13 different types of pieces per side. (10x10, Cells: 100) The Sons of Mithra. Computer program for playing fantasy variant.
• Heinrich Gumpler [info] Schachen - Chess me. Commercial chess variant with board and pieces replaced by cards.
• Tarun Gupta [info] Jurassic Chess. Dinosaur based chess variant played with regular chess pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Gary Gygax [info] An EconoSplurge Dragonchess Set. Dragonchess board with cheap felt squares and fancy wooden pieces. Includes stereoscopic photos. Dragonchess. A three-dimensional fantasy variant. (3x(12x8), Cells: 288) (Recognized!) A Dragonchess Page. Roberts Stevens' page on Dragonchess., more...