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TIL there are more than 2,000 variants of the game Chess including: Chad, Rollerball, Atomic, Beirut, Jedi Knight, Hexagonal, Schroedinger's, Kung-fu, Apocalypse, Crazyhouse, Einstein, Crazyhouse, Weird, Martian, Sniper, Synchronous, Knightmare, Hostage, Spartan, Extinction, Infinite & Kamikaze.

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