Editing List of chess variants (section)

==== Other variants with fairy pieces ====
* '''[[2000 A.D. (chess variant)|2000 A.D.]]''': Played on a 10×10 board, features the empress, capricorn, gorgon, chimaera, dragon, minotaur, unicorn, and fury fairy chess pieces. By V. R. Parton.
* '''Bear chess''':<ref name="chessvariants_bearchess">[https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/bear-chess About Bear chess] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612153941/https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/bear-chess |date=2021-06-12 }} on chessvariants.com.</ref><ref name="evochess_bearchess">[https://www.evochess.com/chess-variant/bear/ About Bear chess] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705220920/https://www.evochess.com/chess-variant/bear/ |date=2022-07-05 }} on evochess.com.</ref><ref name="encyclopedia_chess_variants">[http://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm Chapter 15, New pieces (2) : Pieces with limited range (pages 128—137)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615035121/http://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm |date=2021-06-15 }} from The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (D. B. Pritchard, ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1, 2007).</ref> 10x10 [[chess variant]], proposed by Mikhail Sosnovsky in 1985 in [[Tver|Kalinin]].<ref name="kp_bearchess">[https://www.tver.kp.ru/daily/27284.5/4420333/ «Медвежьи шахматы могут подвинуть тверского козла»] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612154233/https://www.tver.kp.ru/daily/27284.5/4420333/ |date=2021-06-12 }} — article in Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian)</ref><ref name="mk_bearchess">[https://tver.mk.ru/social/2021/06/02/shakh-i-mat-skeptiki-zapadnye-shakhmatisty-ocenili-tverskoy-apgreyd.html Шах и мат, скептики: западные шахматисты оценили тверской апгрейд] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612154234/https://tver.mk.ru/social/2021/06/02/shakh-i-mat-skeptiki-zapadnye-shakhmatisty-ocenili-tverskoy-apgreyd.html |date=2021-06-12 }} — article in Moskovskij Komsomolets (in Russian)</ref> Board 10x10; extra pieces are Bears, which leap as N or two squares as R or B; baseline (a1-j1/a10-j10) RNBBeQKBeBNR. Pawns can move up to three squares initially (e.p. permitted). In castling, K moves to c/h files.
* '''Chessers''': There are multiple variants that combine the rules of chess and [[Draughts|checkers]], including a 1925 variant by Frank Maus,<ref name="encyclopedia_chess_variants_18">[http://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm Chapter 18, Mutation games (pages 161—174)]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615035121/http://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm |date=2021-06-15 }} from The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (D. B. Pritchard, ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1, 2007).</ref> and a 1960 proprietary variant by Phillips Publishers, Inc.<ref name="encyclopedia_chess_variants_15">[http://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm Chapter 15, New pieces (2) : Pieces with limited range (pages 128—137)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615035121/http://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm |date=2021-06-15 }} from The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (D. B. Pritchard, ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1, 2007).</ref>
* '''[[Chess on a really big board]]''': Played on a 16x16 board with 6 nonstandard piece types. Invented by Ralph Betza.
* '''Decimal Chess''' [multivariant]: Played on a 10×10 board, usually add extra pieces. Some decimal chesses use only standard pieces, but others such as [[Decimal Falcon-Hunter Chess]] use fairy pieces. One such variant is '''Decimal Rettah chess''', which adds a king, queen and two pawns. Invented by [[V. R. Parton]]. 
*'''[[Dragonchess]]''': Three 8x12 boards with some standard chess pieces and many other pieces, some of which move between the levels. Created by Gary Gygax.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dragonchess - rules |url=https://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/dragonchess.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=chessvariants.com |archive-date=2022-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427040630/https://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/dragonchess.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*'''[[Duell (chess)|Duell]]''': Dice are used instead of pieces. Played on a 9×8 board.
* '''Etchessera''': Played on a regular chessboard but where players build their own chess army from a collection of 17 different pieces.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://etchessera.com/|title=Etchessera|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2022-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327082742/http://www.etchessera.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*'''[[Gess]]''': Chess with variable pieces, played on a [[Go (game)|Go]] board.
* '''[[Jetan]]''': A "Martian chess" invented by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] for his novel ''[[The Chessmen of Mars]]'' (1922), played on a 10×10 board. None of the pieces are standard chess pieces.<ref name="ekman">{{cite web |last1=Ekman |first1=Fredrik |title=Exploring Jetan |url=http://www.erbzine.com/mag70/7030.html |website=ERBzine |publisher=Bill Hillman |access-date=5 January 2020 |archive-date=25 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225232847/http://www.erbzine.com/mag70/7030.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* '''Prince & Princess''': The chess variant that uses the criterion of succession, where the king or queen are replaced in favor of the prince or the princess, created by [[Antonio Maravi Oyague]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oyague |first=Antonio Maravi |date=July 22, 2015 |title=CHESS 10X10 SUCCESSION PRINCE PRINCESS SUCESION PRINCIPES FAMILIAR |url=http://profemaravi.blogspot.com/2015/07/chess-10x10-succession-prince-princess.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917105136/http://profemaravi.blogspot.com/2015/07/chess-10x10-succession-prince-princess.html |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |website=Profe Antonio Maravi}}</ref>
* '''Proteus''': A chess variant using dice to represent normal chess pieces, created by [[Steve Jackson Games]].{{sfnp|Pritchard|2007|p=304}}
* '''Shako''': Played on a 10×10 board. New pieces are the cannon from [[xiangqi]] (Chinese chess) and an elephant moving as a fers+alfil of old [[shatranj]] (ancestors of queen and bishop), so diagonally one or two squares with jumps allowed. By Jean Louis-Cazaux (1997).<ref>[http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/shako.html Shako] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207013023/http://chessvariants.org/large.dir/shako.html |date=2010-12-07 }} by [[Hans Bodlaender]]</ref>
* '''[[Stealth chess]]''': Played in the fictional [[Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild]] from the ''[[Discworld]]'' series of books; played on an 8×10 board. The fairy piece is the [[Games of the Discworld#Stealth Chess|Assassin]].
* '''[[Stratomic]]''': Adds nuclear missiles to the standard chess array on a 10×10 board. When launched they irradiate any 3×3 area (friendly pieces included) except kings. By Robert Montay-Marsais (1972). 
* '''[[Wildebeest Chess]]''': Uses an 11×10 board, each player has two camels and a wildebeest (camel + knight). Pawns move one, two, or three squares initially. By R. Wayne Schmittberger (1987). 
* '''[[Wolf Chess]]''': On an 8×10 board, with fairy pieces wolf (empress), fox (princess), [[Nightrider (chess)|nightrider]], sergeant (almost a [[Berolina chess|Berolina pawn]]), and elephant (amazon). By Arno von Wilpert (1943).