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Recognized chess variants: What are considered to be the `best chess variants'?	Oriental chess variants: Xiangqi (Chinese Chess), Shogi (Japanese Chess), variants, other oriental chess variants.
Boards with an unusual shapeThree dimensional chess variants: Star Trek and others	Historic chess variants: The first predecessor of chess: Chaturanga, Shatranj, and other chess variants from ancient times.
Hexagonal chess variants	Multi player variants: Chess with 3, 4, 6, 7 or any number of players.
Round boards	Small chess variants: Chess on board of size 4 by 8, 6 by 6, etc.
Other boards with an unusual shape	Large chess variants: Chess on boards of 9 by 9 or larger.
Chess variants with usual equipment: Those variants that can be played with (mainly) a usual 8 by 8 board, and usual pieces.	Different moving pieces. Moving your opponents pieces. Multi-move variants. Rules about the board. Winning in a different way. Different opening setups Capturing in a different way Other variants Modest variants
Other chess variants:	Wargames and Hierarchical games. Chess with cards. Chess with dice. Crossovers. Variants that borrow ideas or rules from, or combine with other games. Chess with incomplete information. Kriegspiel and its variants. Other variants. Everything that didn't fit in another category: with several nice ones!