Baroque chess is a chess variant invented in 1962 by Robert Abbott. In 1963, at the suggestion of his publisher, he changed the name to Ultima, by which...

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board games, have created chess variants. These include Robert Abbott (Baroque chess) and Andy Looney (Martian chess). While chess, shogi, and xiangqi have...

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...

similar to those in chess; however, these variants include one or more fairy pieces which move differently from chess pieces. Baroque chess (or Ultima): Pieces...

in the 1950s. Two of his more popular creations include the chess variant Baroque chess (also known as Ultima) and Crossings, which later became Epaminondas...

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is present. Immobilizer may also refer to: Immobilizer (chess), a piece used in Baroque chess "The Immobilizer", a 1985 television episode An alternative...

Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...

Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which...

Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...

as Baroque chess), and played with a standard chess board and pieces, each piece having different movement and capture rules from standard chess. In...

Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell...

The Baroques were an American rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1966. The band reached regional success for their transition from garage rock...

Sunline Coach Company in the 2000s a piece in the Rococo variation of Baroque chess "The Advancer" ("La Avanzadora"), nickname of Juana Ramírez, a female...

Four-player chess (also known as four-handed chess) is a family of chess variants played with four people. The game features a special board typically...

(/ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular...

Makruk (Thai: หมากรุก; RTGS: mak ruk; pronounced [màːk rúk]), or Thai chess (Thai: หมากรุกไทย; RTGS: mak ruk thai; pronounced [màːk rúk tʰaj]), is a strategy...

Nissan Altima, a model of car by Nissan Ultima GTR a 1990s Sportscar Baroque chess, known in the northeastern region of the United States as "Ultima" Ultima...

Crazyhouse is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced, or dropped, into the game as one's own. It was derived as a two-player...

sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...

Dragonchess is a three-dimensional fantasy chess variant created by Gary Gygax, co-creator of the famed role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The game...

by Coenraad Zuidema (Netherlands). Robert Abbot invents the chess variant Baroque Chess. Martin Gardner invents hexapawn, a small two-player game. Martin...

Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer...

The game is also known as the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. The Jungle gameboard represents a jungle terrain with dens...

Dice chess can refer to a number of chess variants in which dice are used to alter gameplay; specifically that the moves available to each player are determined...

Alice chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration...

Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat...