Editing List of chess variants (section)

==== Variants with popular fairy pieces: Empress, Amazon, Princess ====
There are a number of variants which use the [[Empress (chess)|empress]] (rook + knight) and [[Princess (chess)|princess]] (bishop + knight) compound pieces. The empress is also called marshall or chancellor.<ref>[http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/rook-knight.html The Piececlopedia: The Rook-Knight Compound] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117121137/http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/rook-knight.html |date=2015-11-17 }} by Fergus Duniho and David Howe.</ref> The princess is also called cardinal, archbishop, janus, paladin, or minister.<ref>[http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/bishop-knight.html The Piececlopedia: Bishop-Knight Compound] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117141127/http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/bishop-knight.html |date=2015-11-17 }} by Fergus Duniho and David Howe.</ref> Another compound piece is the [[Amazon (chess)|amazon]] (queen + knight). To adapt to the new pieces, the board is usually extended to 10×8 or 10×10 with additional pawns added.<ref name="material power in variant chess games">{{Cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/comparison-of-material-power-in-variant-chess-games|title=Comparison of Material Power in Variant-Chess Games - Chess Forums|website=Chess.com|access-date=2017-12-21|archive-date=2017-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051714/https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/comparison-of-material-power-in-variant-chess-games|url-status=live}}</ref>
* '''[[Almost Chess]]''': Uses an 8×8 board, with the conventional starting position, but queens are replaced by chancellors (empresses). By Ralph Betza (1977). A related variant is '''[[Sort of Almost Chess]]''' (Ralph Betza, 1994), where one player has a queen and the other has a chancellor.
[[File:Grand Chess init config.PNG|thumb|238x238px|'''[[Grand Chess]]''' by Christian Freeling|alt=|center]]
* '''[[Capablanca Chess]]''': A variant by the former world chess champion, [[José Raúl Capablanca]]. Played on a 10×8 board with chancellor (empress) and archbishop (princess).
* '''[[Capablanca Random Chess]]''': Generalises all possible variants of [[Capablanca Chess]] with random starting positions following a method similar to that used in [[Chess960]]. By Reinhard Scharnagl (2004). 
* '''[[Grand Chess#Embassy chess|Embassy Chess]]''': Uses a 10×8 board with Marshall (Empress) and Cardinal (Princess). The starting position is borrowed from [[Grand Chess]]. By Kevin Hill (2005).
*'''Gemini Chess''':<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://musketeerchess.net/games/gemini/rules/rules.php|title=Gemini Chess Variant|date=2016|website=Musketeer Chess and Chess Variants|access-date=2017-11-27|archive-date=2017-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906191142/http://musketeerchess.net/games/gemini/rules/rules.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Uses a 10×8 board with two Archbishops. From an idea of Dr Zied Haddad in 2016. The difference from Janus Chess is the initial setup where the archbishops are sandwiching the queen and king remaining in the center of the board. [[File:Gemini-setup.png|alt=|center|thumb|Gemini Chess initial position. The archbishops surround the queen and king from each side.]]
* '''[[Capablanca chess#Postdating Capablanca chess|Gothic chess]]''': A commercial variant played on a 10×8 board with Chancellor (Empress) and Archbishop (Princess).
* '''[[Grand Chess]]''': Uses a 10×10 board with marshall (empress) and cardinal (princess). Invented by [[Christian Freeling]] (1984).
* '''[[Janus Chess]]''': Uses a 10×8 board with two januses (princesses). By Werner Schöndorf (1978).
* '''[[Maharajah and the Sepoys]]''': Black has a complete army, and White only one piece: the maharajah (a royal amazon).
* '''[[Modern Chess (chess variant)|Modern Chess]]''': Played on a 9×9 board, with an extra pawn and a prime minister (princess). By Gabriel Vicente Maura (1968).
*'''{{vanchor|Musketeer chess}}''':<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musketeerchess.net/|title=Musketeer Chess, a modern Chess Variant|website=Musketeer Chess & Chess Variants|access-date=2019-11-18|archive-date=2016-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720011155/http://musketeerchess.net/|url-status=live}}</ref> A commercial variant, inspired from [[Seirawan Chess]]. This variant introduces 10 fairy pieces: archbishop, chancellor, hawk (different rules from Seirawan Chess), elephant (different rules from Seirawan Chess), leopard, cannon (different from Xiangqi), unicorn, fortress, spider, and amazon (also called dragon in this game). Players have a choice of 2 pieces among the 10 possible and method used to introduce them during the game.
* '''[[Seirawan Chess]]''': A commercial variant. Uses a standard 8×8 board with elephant (empress) and hawk (princess).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.seirawanchess.com/|title=Seirawan chess {{pipe}} Yasser Seirawan|website=seirawanchess.com|access-date=2019-06-22|archive-date=2019-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622045140/http://seirawanchess.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> By [[Grandmaster (chess)|GM]] [[Yasser Seirawan]] and [[Bruce Harper]] (2007).