Editing Chess (section)

==Related games==
[[File:Sittuyin starting position No. 8.PNG|right|thumb|[[Sittuyin]], after setup phase. Players elect their own starting setups behind the pawns.]]
Related games include:
* direct predecessors of chess, such as [[chaturanga]] and [[shatranj]];
* traditional national or regional games that share common ancestors with Western chess such as [[xiangqi]] (Chinese chess), [[shogi]] (Japanese chess), [[janggi]] (Korean chess), [[makruk|ouk chatrang]] (Cambodian chess), [[makruk]] (Thai chess), [[sittuyin]] (Burmese chess), and [[shatar]] (Mongolian chess);
In the comparison of chess with games often referred to as national forms of chess, chess may be referred to as ''Western chess'' or ''international chess''.<ref name="Parlett p276">"Western culture regards Chess as a particular game with a particular set of rules governed by an international authority (FIDE – the Fédération Internationale des Echecs). Variously known as International Chess, World Chess, Orthochess, and so on [...]" {{harvp|Parlett|1999|p=276}}</ref><ref name="Schmittberger p186">{{cite book |last=Schmittberger |first=R. Wayne |title=New Rules for Classic Games |publisher=John Wiley & Sons Inc |year=1992 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newrulesforclass00rway/page/186 186] |quote=The form of chess most people know&nbsp;– which is sometimes referred to as Western chess, orthodox chess, or orthochess&nbsp;– is itself just one of many that have been played throughout history. |isbn=978-0-471-53621-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/newrulesforclass00rway/page/186}}</ref>

===Chess variants===
{{Main|Chess variant|List of chess variants}}
There are more than two thousand published chess variants, games with similar but different rules,<ref>{{harvp|Pritchard|2000|p=8}}</ref> most of which are of relatively recent origin.<ref>Pritchard details 1,450 of them in {{cite book |last=Pritchard |first=D.B. |author-link=David Pritchard (chess player) |title=The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants |publisher=Games & Puzzles Publications |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-9524142-0-9}} "Of these, about half date from between 700 and 1970 (1,200 years!), half from the last quarter of the twentieth century." {{harvp|Parlett|1999|p=312}}</ref> They include modern variations employing different rules (e.g. [[losing chess]] and [[Chess960]]{{refn|In 2008 FIDE added Chess960 rules to an appendix of the Handbook.<ref name="FideLawsOfChess2009">From {{Cite web|title=Laws Historic |url=http://aekphotography.co.uk/CAA/html/laws_historic.html|access-date=2022-12-29|website=Chess Arbiters' Association|archive-date=6 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706060640/http://aekphotography.co.uk/CAA/html/laws_historic.html|url-status=live}}: {{Cite web|title=FIDE Laws of Chess - coming into force on 1 July 2009 |url=http://aekphotography.co.uk/CAA/Laws_of_Chess_2009.pdf|access-date=5 July 2020|website=Chess Arbiters' Association|archive-date=21 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021164037/http://aekphotography.co.uk/CAA/Laws_of_Chess_2009.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> This section is now classified under "Guidelines",<ref name="FideLawsOfChess"/> indicating that the rules presented do not have the weight of FIDE law.|group=note}}), different forces (e.g. [[Dunsany's chess]]), [[Fairy piece|non-standard pieces]] (e.g. [[Grand Chess]]), and different board geometries (e.g. [[hexagonal chess]] and [[infinite chess]]);
In the context of chess variants, chess is commonly referred to as ''orthodox chess'', ''orthochess'', and ''classic chess''.<ref name="Parlett p276" /><ref name="Schmittberger p186" />