I'd like to have a little history of the games when I check the rules out. Where it's been played, who invented it or how it evolved. With links for more information. You know, anything that might be of interest in playing or learning about a game and its developement.

What made me think of this is when I checked out Janus Chess just now. The game is almost the same game as Gothic Chess. The starting position is slightly different and two Januses instead of the one Arch-Bishop (Same as a Janus I think) plus the Chancellor. I read somewhere, perhaps on the Chess variants site, that Copablanca made up a version of Chess that the Gothic Chess inventor modified to make Gothic Chess. Now I'm curious about these variants that are very simular to each other and how they've developed. The original reason that I even came across IYT and then this site was because of a variant called Ultima. Neither site has it yet, but I've since learned a couple of the variants that they do have. I learned the game Ultima from a book called Abbott's New Card Games! That's right, card games. He put it in at the end of the book. It's not a card game, doesn't have cards in it at all. Played on a chessboard with different pieces, except the King.

Hey, how's 'bout adding Ultima? And Ultichess, which is Ultimamen versus Chessmen.

I suppose the ultimate variation of chess would be to allow the players to choose which pieces to use in the game, how they're set up, the size of the board, and the object of the play.