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Week ending November 01, 2026

1. Alterga. Alternate movement chess variant. Pawns remain the same. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Argon Teuhai.

Week ending October 25, 2026

1. Jikaida. Added copyright and link at publisher's request (12x18, Cells: 361) Author: Alan Burt Akers. Inventor: Kenneth Bulmer.
2. Mischia. A small 6x6 chess variant that plays like normal chess. (6x6, Cells: 36) By William Wragg.

Week ending October 18, 2026

1. Old Castle Chess. Using two type pieces from Shogi. (8x8, Cells: 64) By hirosi Kanō.

Week ending October 11, 2026

1. Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against. By H. G. Muller.
2. GAME code generation. A tutorial on using the Play-Test Applet for automating Game Courier presets. By H. G. Muller.

Week ending October 04, 2026

1. COBY HYPER-CHESS. 12x12 that looks, feels, and plays like regular Chess. (12x12, Cells: 144) By Jon Coby.

Week ending September 27, 2026

1. Ogi. cyril By Cyril Veltin.
2. Capatomic Random Chess. Clarified Rule By Gaelyn Autumnsong.
3. Ultima. Updated text on object (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Robert Abbott.

Week ending September 13, 2026

1. COBY DECA-CHESS. Added graphics (10x10, Cells: 100) By Jon Coby.
2. Secret Target. 8 Players Variant with 3 rounds of play (8x8, Cells: 64) By Florin Lupusoru.
3. Strategic Space Tri-Dimensional Chess Rules. Chess Variant for the Star Trek Tridimensional Chess Set. (7x(6x9), Cells: 64) By Christopher Cox.

Week ending August 30, 2026

1. Chess80. Orthodox Chess played on a 8x10 board with a new Duke piece (10x8, Cells: 80) By Alex Damian.

Week ending August 23, 2026

1. Xiongqi. A Xiangqi variant with modern Bishops on a 9x9 board. By Cyril Veltin.
2. Spartan Chess. A game with unequal armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: A. M. DeWitt. Inventor: Steven Streetman.
3. Potent Knight Chess. A modest variant where Knights have an extra non-capturing diagonal step. (8x8, Cells: 64) By A. M. DeWitt.
4. Harbranj. A hybrid variant of Chess and Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) By A. M. DeWitt.
5. Fugue. New preset shows legal moves Author: Antoine Fourrière and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Michael Nelson.

Week ending August 16, 2026

1. Metamachy. Large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces. Author: H. G. Muller and Jean-Louis Cazaux. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
2. Granlem Shatranj. Changed "guard" to "man" in piece description By Joe Joyce.

Week ending August 09, 2026

1. Great Shatranj. added suggested changes as optional rules (10x8, Cells: 80) By Joe Joyce.
2. Grand Shatranj. Grand Shatranj. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Joe Joyce.
3. Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joe Joyce.
4. Officer-Spiel. Chess on a 16x8 board loaded with powerful pieces. (16x8, Cells: 128) By Kevin Pacey.
5. Lemurian Shatranj. An 8x8 chess variant featuring shortrange pieces which may change directions. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Joe Joyce.
6. Officer Chess. Made links relative (8x10, Cells: 80) By Kevin Pacey.
7. Chess on Two Boards. One game of chess, with one set of pieces, played simultaneously on two boards. (4x(4x(4x4)), Cells: 256) By Joe Joyce.
8. echess. Corrected garbage characters; replaced external image By bp .
9. Coffee Chinese Chess. Adjusted width of board Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Pham Hong Nguyen.

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