Try my Chess Variants

These pages present several Chess variants that I created

My Favorites

• SHAKO on a 10x10 board, with Cannons and Elephant like in Xiangqi.
• INVASION a military variant on a 84 squares board.
• ROLLERBALL on a special "skate-ring" board with 40 squares.
• METAMACHY on the dozenal 12x12 board with 12 types of pieces
• ZANZIBAR an -XXL game on the dozenal 12x12 board with 20 types of pieces
  

 Chess Variants on very large boards

My other chessvariants, not preferred today but still nice to play:

• TAMERLANE II  on a 11x11 board with promotion and crowning rules.
• WILD TAMERLANE a furious battle on a 11x11 board
• PEMBA an extension of Shako on the 10x10 board
• ZANZIBAR-S and -XL extensions of Metamachy crowding the 12x12 board 
• FANTASTIC XIII a bizarre large odd game
  
• TERAMACHY on a 16x12 board, with 21 different pieces.
• GIGACHESS on a 14x14 board with 25 different pieces.
• TERACHESS on a HUGE 16x16 board, with 26 different pieces.
• PATCHANKA a decimal variant with several bi-compound pieces
• BIGORRA also a 16x16 board chess with all pieces from my variants
  

More Chess Variants

All over the years, I have made a lot of attempts which led me to invent other chess-like games.

• HEAVY CHESS on 10x10 board, with many compound pieces
  
• VERY HEAVY CHESS on 12x10 board, with more compound pieces
• TOURNOY where pieces rotate
• ECHEX a 3 or 6-players game on an hex board
• WAR OF THE WORLDS / LA GUERRE DES MONDES Mars vs Earth
• DECIOMEGA a variant of Omega Chess on a regular 10x10 board
  
• CAMEL DECIMAL CHESS on a 10x10 board with Camels
• OBENTO CHESS a 12x12 variant with Shogi-style promotions and bent sliding pieces, co-designed with Eric Silverman