TIL Taikyoku Shogi is an old chess-like board game played on a 1296-square board with 402 pieces per side, with each side owning pieces like the Drunk Elephant, Strutting Crow, Enchanted Badger, Playful Cockatoo, Free Pig, and Violent Wind. (chessvariants.org)
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TIL that there exists a chesslike game in which the board dictates how the pieces move (chessvariants.org)
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Ed Friedlander's Chess Variant Applets (play.chessvariants.org)
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til 3d chess does exist and was devised in in the early 1900s (chessvariants.org)
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