On another "bizarre" note...

"The most incredible and bizarre draws"

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More available in this collection:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1006424

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1339137

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Upmark - Johansson, 1995 (10 moves)
Hohmeister - Frank, 1993 (12 moves)

Who Knew There Were So Many Bizarre Boards?

Star Trek 3D Set http://www.chess-theory.com/encprdo3886_chess_practice_reflections_debates_arts.php

(visit this site for more 3D boards)

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"Maze" http://www.familypastimes.com/Multi-Age/maze.html

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"Grand Chess" http://www.zillions-of-games.com/NewFeatures.html

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"Engagement Chess" http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0204.htm

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"Grid Chess" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_chess

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"Gothic Chess" http://www.chessville.com/gothicchess/gothicchessintro.htm

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"Neo-Chess" http://ancientchess.com/page/10.htm

(more variants on this site)

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"Shuuro" http://www.chesshouse.com/Shuuro_Chess_Set_p/e070.htm

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"Shogi" (Japanese Chess) http://www.chessvariants.org/shogi.html

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"Citadel" http://www.quadibloc.com/other/bo0104.htm

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"Hexagonal Chess" http://www.answers.com/topic/hexagonal-chess

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"Mini Chess" http://www.gamedujour.com/3995-mini-chess

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"Four Seasons Chess" http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/4seiz.html

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"Toroidal Honeycomb Chess" http://chessvariants.wikidot.com/toroidal-honeycomb-combined-courier-chess

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More variants:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chess_variants
http://www.bunkahle.com/Schach/pieces.html

Other Bizarre Chess Boards!

"Trichotomy" http://sandfly.net.nz/blog/2006/12/trichotomy-a-chess-varient/

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Played with marbles http://homepages.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/dob.htm

(this site also has other variants)

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Played with cards http://www.gamedev.net/columns/events/gdc2003/view.asp?SectionID=2

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"Melee" http://www.castlepointgames.com/melee.html

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Nine knights? http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0402.htm
(this site also has many other cool variants)

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Four player corner chess http://blogs.indystar.com/geek/2008/08/

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Six player chess http://www.endprod.com/chess/6a.htm

(this site also has other variants)
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Three player hexagonal board http://www.mastersgames.com/cat/board/chess-3-player.htm

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"Waider's chess" http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0501.htm

(this site also has many other variants of three-way chess)

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Star-shaped chess http://newton.umsl.edu/philf//nplchess/

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Four player chess http://www.academicchess.org/contact/linkspages/chess-variants.htm

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Expanded board "Super Chess" http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6702287.html

(use the search engine for more chess inventions)

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One player chess http://newton.umsl.edu/infophys/wuzzlers.html

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Five player chess http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0205.htm

(a couple other amazing variants on this website)

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"Martian Chessboard" http://www.ee0r.com/tri-chess/

(this is the three-player version...the site also contains four-, five-, and six-player versions)

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Six player circular board http://kentropic.wordpress.com/

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Three player circular board http://www.douglaswilliamsmith.net/Trinity_Chess/Three_Player_Chess_Comparative_Review.htm (this site has a few other variants, such as trigon chess)

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Three player chess with hexagonal squares http://www.thetoyman.com/top_50_2009.html

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"Pikemen" http://www.playagaingames.com/games/pikemen/

(various setups)

Chess for Three Players!

Interesting concept!

Read more about it: http://somethinbizarre.blogspot.com/2009/10/cool-and-strange-chess-for-three.html