Chess Variants Software
One of the most important software for chess variant enthusiasts is a commercial software Zillions of Games. It supports an unlimited number (but not types) of chess variants. One can write one's own rule files to create and play almost all chess variants, as well as almost any abstract strategy board game.
There are some other software, which can play many chess variants. However, they are not as flexible as Zillions of Games and do not allow the addition of new chess variants to them. Open source software ChessV supports around 50 chess variants, including such popular variants as Grand chess, shatranj, Three Checks chess, Ultima. Freeware SMIRF and Chess variants supports all FRC variants upon the 8×8 board and all CRC variants upon the 10×8 board.
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