Home-made Wooden Chess Variant Set
My home-made wooden ChessVariant sets
Set 1: the orthodox men: Rook, King, Pawn, Queen, Bishop,
Knight
Set 2: the Metamachy men: Cannon, Elephant, Lion, Eagle,
Camel, Prince
Set 3: the Zanzibar men: Rhinoceros, Giraffe, Buffalo,
Marshal, Crocodile, Cardinal, Machine
The Pawn
The King
The Queen
The Bishop
The Knight
The Rook
The Marshal or Chancellor
The Cardinal or Archbishop
The Cannon
The Elephant
The Lion
The Eagle, a.k.a the Gryphon
The Camel
The Prince or Man
The War Machine or Catapult
The Giraffe
The Crocodile
The Buffalo
The Rhinoceros
Some Chessvariants using this set
A Westernized rendition of Xiangqi
Modern Chess (Maura) on 9x9 board
with Ministers (=Cardinals)
Shako, on10x10 board,
including Cannons and Elephants
Grand Chess (Freeling), on 10x10
board, with Marshals and Cardinals
Omicron Chess: my variation over Omega Chess (Mac Donald). Same board
(10x10 with 4 extra corner squares), but Camels and War
Machines replace Wizards (=Camel+Fers) and Champions
(=Machine+Alfil). This prevent from having too many strong
pieces on the board
An adaptation of Tamerlane Chess
on 11x11 board. A Crocodile replaces the Wazir as in the
historic Full Tamerlane
Chess
The Wildebeest Chess (Schmittberger)
line-up on a 11x11 board instead of the original 11x10
board
Metamachy, on 12x12 board with
12 types of pieces
Zanzibar-S, on 12x12 board and
many pieces
and orthodox Chess, a
recognized variant!
Find those Chess variants on the Chess Variant Pages.
Retrouvez-les sur le site "The Chess Variant Pages"
