There’s some interesting variants listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minichess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minichess Without changing the rules s

There’s some interesting variants listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minichess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minichess Without changing the rules somewhat, it appears that the odds change dramatically enough to make easy wins for one of the players on such smaller boards. Hence, variants include some weird stuff. On the other extreme, you get https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_chess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_chess