A chess variant where the pieces in the back row are displaced for both black and white pieces, making a total of over 8.2 million different starting positions.

See: http://www.d-chess.com/

for more information.

See: http://www.d-chess.com/thezenofchess

for a more philosophical article with less technical information.

A place to discuss this variant and other chess variants. Online matches using the D-Chess rules are played here via e-mail or IM or other formats. Contact admin./mod. for games and tournaments to play against others here.

Games against computers can be done setting up positions, choosing a side and letting computer move first or for more complete d-chess format against computer, see archive messages.