The Unusual Board Tag

Description

While some boards differ from the Chess board only in size, others differ from it in a variety of other ways. Some have a non-rectangular arrangement of squares, some go beyond two dimensions, some have spaces of different shapes than squares, and some have terrain or other features on the board that affect movement.

Tagged Pages

• 2x2x16 Race Chess. Race Chess on a 2-level circular board with Crooked Bishops and Queens. (2x(2x16), Cells: 64) (1)
• 4-Way Chess. Commercial fourhanded chess variant. (1)
• Achernar. ACHERNAR is a mix of the game ALTAIR and Western Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) (1)
• Altair. Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor. (9x9, Cells: 81) (1)
• Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games. (1)
• Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games. (1)
• Atlantis Chess. Instead of moving, a player may remove an square from the edges of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Balbo's chess. Board with a strange shape designed to make Bishops stronger in relation to Rooks. (Cells: 68) (1)
• Bombalot. Bombs can wipe out most pieces on the board. (1)
• Brouhaha. Like Chess, but it really brings the ruckus! (8x8, Cells: 72) (1)
• Catapults of Troy. Large variant with a river, catapults, archers, and trojan horses! (8x11, Cells: 88) (1)
• Cheshire Cat Chess. Squares are disappearing. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Chess Cubic. Chess board is a cube with each side a 4x4 grid. (6x(4x4), Cells: 96) (1)
• Chess on a Tesseract. Chess played over the 24 two-dimensional sides of a tesseract. (24x(5x5), Cells: 504) (1)
• College Mess. Smess variant played using a Smess board & set. (7x8, Cells: 56) (1)
• Crazy 38's. On strange board with 38 squares. (Cells: 38) (Recognized!) (1)
• Crushed Chess. After every 10 turns, the perimeter disappears. (1)
• Delta88 Chess. Chess on a Trigonal Board. (11x8, Cells: 88) (1)
• Dragonchess. A three-dimensional fantasy variant. (3x(12x8), Cells: 288) (Recognized!) (1)
• Espionage chess. Spy can only be captured in turn after it has moved in 41-square variant. (7x7, Cells: 41) (1)
• Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidal board using three warp lines with 8 corners tied together. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Flipworld. Pieces are on both sides of a disc. (2x(6x7), Cells: 84) (1)
• Grand Apothecary Chess-Alert. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. (1)
• Grand Apothecary Chess-Classic. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. (1)
• Grand Apothecary Chess-Modern. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games. (1)
• Hole Chess. Variant on a board of 44 squares with two holes that pieces can be dragged into. (7x10, Cells: 44) (1)
• Hourglass Chess. 38-Square board in shape of Hourglass. (7x6, Cells: 38) (1)
• I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here. A variant in which pieces disappear if left too long in the wrong place. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Janggi - 장기 - Korean Chess. The variant of chess played in Korea. (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!) (1)
• Joust. Missing description (1)
• Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10. (10x10, Cells: 100) (1)
• Just a funny board with 40 squares. A board with 40 squares without rules. (Cells: 40) (1)
• The Knightliest Black Hole. Knighted pieces on a constantly diminishing board. (1)
• Lemniscate Chess. Chess played on a Lemniscate board (in the shape of an infinity symbol). (18x4, Cells: 72) (1)
• Mammoth Chess. Large Variant. (10x10, Cells: 96) (1)
• Maxima. Maxima is an interesting and exiting variant of Ultima, with new elements that make Maxima more clear and dynamic. (Cells: 76) (1)
• Nuclear Chess. When pieces take, the square becomes impassable and all surrounding pieces disappear. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Null chess. Capture squares are destroyed when vacated. (1)
• Omega Chess. Rules for commercial chess variant on board with 104 squares. (12x12, Cells: 104) (Recognized!) (1)
• Qiube. Xiang Qi variant with Fortresses expanded from square to cube. (3x(9x10), Cells: 126) (1)
• Raumschach. The classical variant of three-dimensional chess: 5 by 5 by 5. (5x(5x5), Cells: 125) (Recognized!) (1)
• Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!) (1)
• Rotorblades Chess. Game played on a board that is both circular and trigonal. (Cells: 150) (1)
• Rotorblades Fusion Chess. Played on a circular tiling on triangular cells. A further development of my previous game, Rotorblades Chess. (Cells: 150) (1)
• Secutor Chess. The Secutor is a bifurcation piece that must collide and deviate in order to capture (+zrf). (1)
• Secutor Chess. Introducing the Secutor piece, and new collision-capture, on a Gustavian board (zrf available). (1)
• Seenschach. Variant on 10 by 10 board with lake in the middle and new pieces. (10x10, Cells: 84) (1)
• Shako_Balbo. Game with Diamond Shape Board. (1)
• Shakti. On a 7 by 7 board with disappearing squares. (7x7, Cells: 49) (1)
• Smess. Produced and sold in the early 70's by Parker Brothers. Arrows on squares determine direction pieces can move. (7x8, Cells: 56) (Recognized!) (1)
• Soul Reaver Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Square Attrition Chess. Squares can be visited a limited number of times. (1)
• Star Pool Chess. Large variant of Makruk, with a center non-square that acts as a bridge. (Cells: 84) (1)
• Storm the Ivory Tower. A Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) (1)
• Tamerlane chess. A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj. (11x10, Cells: 112) (Recognized!) (1)
• Templar Chess. Features the unorthodox Templar on a board with eight extra squares. (8x10, Cells: 72) (1)
• Tetrahedral Chess. Three dimensional variant with board in form of tetrahedron. (7x(), Cells: 84) (1)
• Thronschach. A game on 42-squares with throne squares, and an interesting mix of pieces. (5x8, Cells: 42) (1)
• Toccata. A hexagonal variant inspired of Maxima. (Cells: 76) (1)
• Voidrider Chess. A 43 square variant with movable spaces. (7x9, Cells: 43) (1)
• Vortex Chess. Ortho-chess with the inclusion of a new piece: the Portal. (1)
• Wizard's War. Game with piece-creating Wizards and a board divided into arena and enchanted sections. (10x10, Cells: 84) (1)
• Wormhole Chess. When a piece leaves a square, it `folds' together. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Xiangqi: Chinese Chess. Links and rules for Xiangqi (Chinese Chess). (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!) (1)

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• 3DBoard
• Crazy Board - Boards that defy our usual notions of order
• Cube Board - A board on multiple surfaces of a cube or even multiple cubes
• Pentagonal - Games played on pentagonal boards
• Round Board
• Triagonal - Games played on triagonal boards