Inventors Starting with V

• Danny Van den Berghe [info] Fool's Chess. One pawn is replaced by a Fool.
• H. van Haeringen [info] Excess en Superschaak. Nieuwe soorten stukken in fraai ontwerp (Dutch Language)
• Henk van Haeringen [info] Superchess and Monarch. Booklet in English and Dutch and book in Dutch about large chess variants with fantasy pieces. New sets of Exchess (Superchess). Announcement of sets of chess variant pieces. News on Superchess. A championship in combination with Corus chess, and a third set of pieces., more...
• Lourenzo Van Niekerk [info] Paradigm Chess30. Chess with Dragon Bishop and 30 positions.
• Denis van Straten [info] Magic Carpet Chess. Each player has a magic carpet to move a non-King to any empty square on the board. Bank Chess . Put your assets on the bank for later use! 6 Variants.
• Richard G. VanDeventer [info] Round Table Chess. Chess variant on a board with round and square part. (Cells: 92) Round Table Chess 84. Chess on a special round board with 84 squares. (Cells: 84)
• Richard VanDeventer [info] Castle Siege Chess . Byzantine Chess merged with 6x6 chess board.
• Richard G. VanDeventer [info] Round Table Chess 84 ZRF . Chess on a special round board with 84 squares.
• Gustavo A. Vargas [info] Guschess. Pieces can freely move in one of 38 areas on the board. (8x8, Cells: 38) Guschess . Pieces can freely move in one of 38 areas on the board.
• T. Varghese [info] Extended Queenside Castling. Orthochess, but Queenside castling is possible with a piece at d1 or b1, also called Madchess.
• Various [info] L. The list of official nominations for the variant-by-committee. L . Chess variant designed by committee. Stability Chess. Designed to minimize the first-move advantage by white, maximize fairness, and simplify the rules of chess.
• Dmitrii Vavulin [info] Vavulin Creative Chess. Before the start of the game, every player, creates up with one rule for both players, which operates the whole game.
• Gianluca Vecchi [info] Balaklava Chess. Many pieces have additional knight moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) Balaklava Schaak (Balaklava Chess). Stukken kunnen ook gaan maar niet slaan als paard (Dutch Language) Brotherhood Chess. Pieces cannot take pieces of the same type. (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
• Jarry Vega [info] Canyon Chess. Small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules. (8x8, Cells: 44) Canyon Chess. Play this small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules!
• Cyril Veltin [info] ogi. Missing description Xiongqi. A Xiangqi variant with modern Bishops on a 9x9 board.
• Koen Versmissen [info] Ubi-ubi chess. Experimental variant with powerful Knights. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Simon Vertigo [info] Hobgoblin Chess. Inchworm crowd-forming magnetic mutating lunar-hallway exploding-Pawn Chess; an extreme game. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Gabriel Vicente Maura [info] Modern Chess. Variant on a 9 by 9 board with piece that combines bishop and knight moves. (9x9, Cells: 81) Omega Chess (Maura). Players have many pieces that can only move in the direction they point at. (9x9, Cells: 81) Modern Chess. Latin American 9x9 version., more...
• Peter A. Victor [info] Choiss. First place your squares, then your pawns, then your pieces, then move. Choiss. Starting with a 2x2 center, players assemble a 64 square board of any shape before play.
• Miguel Villa [info] Extended Chess. Standard setup with changes in moves and win conditions. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• Nathaniel Virgo [info] Suction Chess. Pieces swap places instead of being removed from the board, resulting in very different strategy.
• Doug Vogel [info] Chess on a 12 by 12 board. Orthodox chess but with additional squares around the setup. (12x12, Cells: 144) Chess on a 12 by 12 board. Doug Vogel has placed the standard 32 chess pieces in the center of a 12x12 board. Chess 12x12 . Orthodox chess but with additional squares around the setup.
• Federik Hendrik von Meyenfeldt [info] Patrol chess. In order to capture or give check, a piece [including kings] must be `observed' by another piece of the same player. (8x8, Cells: 64) Patrol Chess. A unit may not capture or give check unless it is supported.
• Dr. Arno von Wilpert [info] Wolf Chess. Half-century old variant on board of size 8 by 10. (8x10, Cells: 80) Wolf Chess. Older European game with unusual pieces. Wolf Chess. Half-century old variant on 8 x 10 board with many unusual pieces.
• Dennis Xay Voong [info] King and Queen. Variant on cross-shaped board with 39 squares. (Cells: 39) Magichess . Chess variant that uses ideas from Magic: the Gathering card game. King and Queen . Variant on cross-shaped board with 39 squares.
• Vu Q Vo [info] Bach Dang Chess. On board with 100 squares, with crafts and other special pieces and rules. (10x10, Cells: 100) Dienbienphu Chess. Unequal armies chess variant: FIDE chess against Quang Trung Chess. Quang Trung Chess (4th edition). Variant with standard equipment, with different moving pieces, and elements of Xiangqi and FIDE-chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) , more...
• Davor Vujacic [info] 88 Hexagons Chess. Hexagonal chess on chessboard with 88 hexagons. Battlefront Chess. Game with standard pieces, 12 pawns, 2 Generals, the Archbishop, and the Chancellor. (12x8, Cells: 96) Conservative Capablanca Chess. Alternative, more traditional Capablanca chess setup., more...