Atomic Chess Diary | An excellent didactic page on Atomic Chess, useful for beginners and for advanced players. |
BrainKing | From far the best website for playing chess (and other board games) in a turn-based way. Turn-based play is the Internet version of correspondence play, but much nicer to play because moves can be played directly on the boards.
Brainking offers numerous of the best chess variants : Ambiguous Chess, Losing Chess, Chessgi, Extinction Chess, Three-check Chess, Knight Relay Chess, Dark Chess, Xiangqi, shogi, and some 20 more anecdotic variants.
Free with some few restrictions versus the paying member status (which is anyway a tremendous value). Essential! |
Chess Variants Pages | The absolute reference about chess variants on the web. Extraordinarily complete website with very frequent updates. Highly recommended! |
Minds Sports Olympiad | Tons of informations on all sorts of mind games, amongst which chess and chess variants are difficult to find. |
The Variant Chess Website | The homepage of the best paper magazine on chess variants. Principally useful to subscribe ! |
Tipau's Atomic Page | A very good initiation page, written in a very paedagogic way by one of the best Atomic Chess players in the world. |
Zillions of Games! | An incredible (commercial) program, able to play hundreds of chess variants and many more games. It is moreover extensible, that is, it allows to program new variants by oneself. Recommended! |