Chess variant

Chess variant - games related to, derived from or inspired by chess. Article "Chess variant" in English Wikipedia has 46.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Chess variant", its content was written by 66 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 810 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 759 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2331 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15194 in September 2019
• Global: #12184 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47416 in May 2011
• Global: #68091 in May 2011

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Schachvariante		57.799
2	Hebrew (he) וריאציות של משחק השחמט		49.2269
3	English (en) Chess variant		46.8428
4	Spanish (es) Variante del ajedrez		42.6313
5	French (fr) Variante du jeu d'échecs		31.4422
6	Japanese (ja) 変則チェス		30.6155
7	Turkish (tr) Satranç türevi		29.6152
8	Arabic (ar) متغيرة شطرنج		26.6566
9	Dutch (nl) Schaakvariant		26.6399
10	Persian (fa) انواع شطرنج		26.5571

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Chess variant" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chess variant		1 335 710
2	Thai (th) หมากรุก		317 574
3	Spanish (es) Variante del ajedrez		281 393
4	German (de) Schachvariante		248 325
5	Italian (it) Scacchi eterodossi		133 851
6	French (fr) Variante du jeu d'échecs		132 532
7	Japanese (ja) 変則チェス		104 162
8	Portuguese (pt) Variantes do xadrez		74 881
9	Hebrew (he) וריאציות של משחק השחמט		54 124
10	Persian (fa) انواع شطرنج		40 563

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Chess variant" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chess variant		4 645
2	Thai (th) หมากรุก		735
3	Spanish (es) Variante del ajedrez		722
4	French (fr) Variante du jeu d'échecs		666
5	German (de) Schachvariante		571
6	Japanese (ja) 変則チェス		405
7	Portuguese (pt) Variantes do xadrez		325
8	Italian (it) Scacchi eterodossi		293
9	Hebrew (he) וריאציות של משחק השחמט		187
10	Chinese (zh) 象棋變體		155

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Chess variant" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schachvariante		179
2	Hebrew (he) וריאציות של משחק השחמט		76
3	Spanish (es) Variante del ajedrez		74
4	Italian (it) Scacchi eterodossi		74
5	English (en) Chess variant		66
6	French (fr) Variante du jeu d'échecs		63
7	Dutch (nl) Schaakvariant		42
8	Chinese (zh) 象棋變體		32
9	Hungarian (hu) Sakkváltozatok		28
10	Japanese (ja) 変則チェス		24

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Chess variant" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Variante du jeu d'échecs		2
2	German (de) Schachvariante		1
3	Italian (it) Scacchi eterodossi		1
4	Vietnamese (vi) Biến thể cờ vua		1
5	Chinese (zh) 象棋變體		1
6	Arabic (ar) متغيرة شطرنج		0
7	Catalan (ca) Variacions dels escacs		0
8	Greek (el) Ανορθόδοξο σκάκι		0
9	English (en) Chess variant		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ŝaka variaĵo		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Chess variant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Chess variant		759
2	Arabic (ar) متغيرة شطرنج		175
3	Portuguese (pt) Variantes do xadrez		141
4	Korean (ko) 변형 체스		120
5	German (de) Schachvariante		109
6	Japanese (ja) 変則チェス		104
7	Thai (th) หมากรุก		100
8	Greek (el) Ανορθόδοξο σκάκι		97
9	Hebrew (he) וריאציות של משחק השחמט		95
10	Dutch (nl) Schaakvariant		91

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic متغيرة شطرنج
ca	Catalan Variacions dels escacs
de	German Schachvariante
el	Greek Ανορθόδοξο σκάκι
en	English Chess variant
eo	Esperanto Ŝaka variaĵo
es	Spanish Variante del ajedrez
fa	Persian انواع شطرنج
fi	Finnish Shakkivariantti
fr	French Variante du jeu d'échecs
he	Hebrew וריאציות של משחק השחמט
hu	Hungarian Sakkváltozatok
it	Italian Scacchi eterodossi
ja	Japanese 変則チェス
ko	Korean 변형 체스
nl	Dutch Schaakvariant
pl	Polish Szachy nieortodoksyjne
pt	Portuguese Variantes do xadrez
simple	Simple English Chess variant
sl	Slovenian Šahovska različica
sv	Swedish Schackvariant
th	Thai หมากรุก
tr	Turkish Satranç türevi
vi	Vietnamese Biến thể cờ vua
zh	Chinese 象棋變體

Best Rank

English: #47416 05.2011

Global: #68091 05.2011

Best Rank

English: #15194 09.2019

Global: #12184 11.2002

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