Editing List of chess variants (section)

==== Variants with fairy pieces on a standard board ====
Most of the pieces in these variants are borrowed from chess. The game goal and rules are also very similar to those in chess; however, these variants include one or more [[fairy pieces]] which move differently from chess pieces.
* '''[[Baroque chess]]''' (or '''Ultima'''): Pieces on the first row move like queens, and pieces on the second row move like rooks. They are named after their unusual capturing methods. For example, leaper, immobilizer and coordinator.
* '''[[Berolina chess]]''': All pawns are replaced with Berolina pawns, that move diagonally and capture orthogonally.
* '''[[Chess with different armies]]''': Two sides use different sets of fairy pieces. There are several armies of approximately equal strength to choose from including the standard FIDE chess army.
* '''[[Falcon-Hunter Chess]]''': A falcon moves forward as a bishop; backward as a rook. The hunter moves forward as a rook; backward as a bishop. Players introduce the fairies as the game progresses. By Karl Schulz (1943).
* '''[[Grasshopper chess]]''' [multivariant]: The pawns can promote to grasshopper, or grasshoppers are on the board in the initial position.
* '''[[Pocket Mutation Chess]]''': Player can put a piece temporarily into the pocket, optionally mutating it into another (including fairy) piece.
* '''Spartan chess''': Black (the Spartans) has an army headed by two kings, which otherwise consists exclusively of non-standard pieces, and battles the standard FIDE army (the Persians) of white.<ref>http://spartanchessonline.com/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505003528/http://spartanchessonline.com/ |date=2016-05-05 }} by Steven Streetman.</ref>
*'''Super X Chess''': Players can combine their own pieces by capturing them. King or queen can't combine. A combined piece has the ability to move as both pieces that got combined. Same kind of pieces can combine into new pieces. Pieces can't uncombine or combine again.  By Miika Pihkala (2018).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://linuxgameconsortium.com/linux-gaming-news/super-x-chess-releases-tomorrow-steam-linux-70820/|title=Super X Chess releases tomorrow on Steam|date=2018-10-23|website=Linux Game Consortium|access-date=2019-01-07|archive-date=2019-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107234543/https://linuxgameconsortium.com/linux-gaming-news/super-x-chess-releases-tomorrow-steam-linux-70820/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* '''Torpedo chess''': Pawns are replaced with torpedo pawns, which can move two squares forwards anywhere on the board as opposed to only on the first move. Pawns that move two squares can be captured ''en passant'' on the very next move. The rest of the pieces remain unchanged.<ref>{{Citation | arxiv=2009.04374 | title=Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess | year=2020 | first1=Nenad | last1=Tomašev | first2=Ulrich | last2=Paquet | first3=Demis | last3=Hassabis | first4=Vladimir | last4=Kramnik}}</ref>
* {{Anchor|Way of the Knight}}'''Way of the Knight''' (WOTN): Invented by [[Ralph Betza]], incorporating two elements from [[tabletop role-playing game]]s. Begins with the standard starting position and pieces, however through capturing and advancing up the board pieces can earn "[[Experience point|experience]]", and a sufficiently experienced piece is upgraded to a more powerful one. Upgrades include various fairy pieces, and involve player choices of "[[Alignment (role-playing games)|alignment]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/wotn.html|title=Way of the Knight|website=chessvariants.com|access-date=2018-08-03|archive-date=2018-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803134715/http://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/wotn.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/wotnsample.html|title=A Sample game of Way of the Knight|last=Trenholme|first=Sam|website=chessvariants.com|access-date=2018-08-03|archive-date=2018-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803134556/http://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/wotnsample.html|url-status=live}}</ref>