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"Fantastic Chess", "Wizard Chess", and "Future" or "[[Space Noun|Space Chess]]" are more specific terms based on setting. [[Human Chess]] is a subtrope (so see that page for those examples). Also see [[Smart People Play Chess]]. [[House Rules]] can act as a [[Super-Trope]] or a [[Justified Trope|Justification]] depending on the circumstances.
Very much present in [[Real Life]] - The [[Wikipedia]] article on [[wikipedia:Chess variant|Chess Variants]] puts the number at over 2000 (and that's only counting published ones), with the amount perhaps unlimited. Some of these even enjoy a fair following. Since WWI a subgroup, which includes unusual problems as well as non-standard pieces, known as "Fairy Chess" has been popular, engendering multiple international organizations of players and theorists. See also [http://www.chessvariants.org/ the dedicated site].
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* ''Proteus,'' where the pieces can change identity repeatedly throughout the game. Also introduces a new piece that can't move but also can't be captured.
* ''Dragon Magazine'' proposed a game called Dragon Chess, with three boards (representing the surface, the Underdark, and the sky) using miniatures for pieces. Unfortunately they were unable to design a board capable of supporting the weight of the miniatures.
* [http://www.omegachess.com/ Omega Chess] deserves special mention as it gives the impression of actually having the intent to take the place in mainstream board-games on which [[Chess]] has historically held a monopoly.
* Games like [[Shogi]] (Japanese chess) and [[Xiangqi]] (Chinese chess) are related and similar to international chess; both Western/international chess and these games themselves started as variants of the Indian game ''chaturanga''. Some of these games, like makruk (Thai chess) can be played on an international chess board with the same pieces.
* There's an entire web site devoted to chess variants called, appropriately enough, [http://www.chessvariants.org Chessvariants.org].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Three-dimensional chess|3D chess]] was used often in ''[[Star Trek]]''. Spock was obviously a master. Features as a plot point in one episode where Spock beating the computer at chess is a clue that the computer has been tampered with. As the rules were concocted ''after'' the board was designed just to 'look' futuristic, there are several sets: one involves being able to move several small four-square 'attack boards' with pieces on them to different clipped-on positions on the the three main boards in lieu of a move.
* ''[[Blake's
* Sheldon and Leonard play 3D chess in one episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''. After Leonard loses several times in a row, Sheldon suggests that "perhaps three-dimensional Candy Land is more your speed."
** In ''The Wildebeest Implementation", Sheldon invents three player chess, which includes [[Calvin Ball|a lot of new pieces and complicated moves.]]
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* ''[[Lexx]]'' had a live-piece chess game in one of the [[Mind Screw|trippy]] later-season episodes.
* One of the things that gets interrupted by the Batphone in the old [[Batman (TV series)|Batman]] TV series is a game of chess, played on four or five layered boards.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Wedding Of River Song", The Doctor and an agent of the silence play Live Chess in a gladiator-style pit, with crowds of cheering/screaming spectators.
{{quote|'''The Doctor''': "The crowd is getting restless, they know the queen is your only legal move. Except you've already moved it twelve times, which means there are now over four ''million'' volts running through it. That's why they call it ''[[Just for Pun|live]]'' [[Just for Pun|chess]]}}
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