Chancellor chess

Chancellor chess is a chess variant invented by Benjamin R. Foster in 1887. It features all the regular chess pieces plus one chancellor and extra pawn per side, on a 9×9 board.

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i
9										9
8										8
7										7
6										6
5										5
4										4
3										3
2										2
1										1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i

Chancellor chess board and starting setup. The chancellors are on f1/f9.

References

Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. pp. 46–47. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1.
Pritchard, D. B. (2007). "Chancellor Chess". In Beasley, John (ed.). The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. pp. 121–22. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1.
Wood, Peter C., ed. (July–September 1993). "Chancellor Chess". Variant Chess. Vol. 2 no. 11. British Chess Variants Society. pp. 33–36. ISSN 0958-8248.

External links

Chancellor Chess by Hans Bodlaender, The Chess Variant Pages
Chancellor Chess (book) by Ben R. Foster, The Chess Variant Pages
Chancellor Chess a simple program by Ed Friedlander (Java)

Chess variants (list)

Orthodox rules

Different starting position	Chess960 Displacement chess Transcendental chess
Different number of pieces	Dunsany's chess Handicap
Unorthodox board	Balbo's game Circular chess Cross chess Cylinder chess Double chess Grid chess Hexagonal chess Infinite chess Los Alamos chess Masonic chess Millennium 3D chess Minichess Rhombic chess Spherical chess Three-dimensional chess Triangular chess Trappist-1

Unorthodox
rules with
traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Andernach chess Atomic chess Beirut chess Checkless chess Circe chess Crazyhouse Cubic chess Dynamo chess Extinction chess Hostage chess Knight relay chess Legan chess Losing chess Madrasi chess Monochromatic chess Patrol chess PlunderChess Portal chess Progressive chess Three-check chess Way of the Knight
Multimove variants	Avalanche chess Kung-Fu Chess Marseillais chess Monster chess Progressive chess
Elements of chance	Dark chess Dice chess Knightmare Chess Kriegspiel Penultima
Unorthodox rules on an unorthodox board	Alice chess Apocalypse Chad Chessence Congo Diplomat chess Dragonfly Jeson Mor Parallel worlds chess Rollerball

Unorthodox
rules using
non-traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Baroque Berolina Chakra Chess with different armies Duell Falcon–hunter chess Grasshopper chess Musketeer chess Pocket mutation chess
Compound pieces	Almost chess Bird's chess Capablanca chess Capablanca random chess Carrera chess Chancellor chess Coronation chess Duke of Rutland's chess Embassy chess Gothic chess Grand chess Gustav III chess Janus chess Kaiser's Game (Tressau) Maharajah and the Sepoys Modern chess Neo-Chess Seirawan chess Sultan's Game (Tressau) Tutti-Frutti chess Universal chess
Unorthodox boards & pieces	Archiscacchiere Chesquerque Chess on a really big board Ciccolini's chess Courier-Spiel Dragonchess Enlarged & Improved chess Falconery Gess Jeu de la Guerre Metamachy Omega chess Reformed Courier chess Shako chess Silberschmdt's Game So-called Spanish chess Stratomic Dekle's triangular chess 2000 A.D. Wildebeest chess Wolf chess

Multiplayer

Inspired games

Chess-related
games

Historical	Chaturaji Courier chess Grant Acedrex Shatranj Short assize Tamerlane chess
Regional	Banqi Game of the Three Kingdoms Hiashatar Janggi Jungle Ouk-Khmer Makruk Manchu chess Senterej Shatar Shogi Sittuyin Xiangqi

Software

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Chancellor chess

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References

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