Home›Chess-Family War Games›Player Count›Two-PlayerBrowse ByTwo-PlayerPlayer count sorts games by how many people are actually needed on each side. Wikipedia describes association football as "played between two teams of 11 players," a fixed number written directly into the Laws of the Game. This dimension groups games that require the same number of players.FactsTwo-PlayerSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Essays About This Entity (1 essay)Frequently Asked QuestionsFactsComparisonEra of OriginWell-attested600 CE 1Defining CharacteristicWell-attestedChess spread throughout the world and many variants of the game soon began taking shape. 2Two-PlayerFilter Results48 entriesSportAllAbstract strategy board game (1)Board game, abstract strategy (3)Board game, abstract strategy, chess variant (1)Board game, ancestral strategy, chaturanga family (1)collectible miniatures game (1)shogi variant (1)Derived FromAllChaturanga (3)Chess (5)Dai shogi (1)Xiangqi (1)Origin RegionAllChina (1)India (1)Japan (1)Korea (1)Northern Europe (1)Northern India (1)Origin YearAll600 (2)1030 (1)1100 (1)1400 (1)1500 (1)1799 (1)1857 (1)1943 (1)1949 (1)1967 (1)1972 (1)1976 (1)1977 (2)1979 (2)1981 (1)1984 (3)1985 (1)1987 (2)1995 (1)1996 (1)1998 (1)2003 (1)2008 (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 48Almost chessTwo-PlayerAtomic chessTwo-PlayerAvalanche chessTwo-PlayerChad (chess variant)Two-PlayerChadarangamTwo-PlayerChaturangaTwo-PlayerCheckless chessTwo-PlayerChessTwo-PlayerChess with different armiesTwo-PlayerChu shogiTwo-PlayerCirce chessTwo-PlayerCorrespondence chessTwo-PlayerCrazyhouseTwo-PlayerCylinder chessTwo-PlayerDai dai shogiTwo-PlayerDiplomat chessTwo-PlayerDōbutsu shōgiTwo-PlayerEmbassy chessTwo-PlayerExtinction chessTwo-PlayerGNU ChessTwo-PlayerGrand ChessTwo-PlayerGreat chessTwo-PlayerHexagonal chessTwo-PlayerIndian chessTwo-PlayerJanggiTwo-PlayerJeson MorTwo-PlayerJudkins shogiTwo-PlayerLudus latrunculorumTwo-PlayerMakrukTwo-PlayerMasonic shogiTwo-PlayerMonochromatic chessTwo-PlayerMonster chessTwo-PlayerNavia DratpTwo-PlayerOkisaki shogiTwo-PlayerRithmomachiaTwo-PlayerShatranjTwo-PlayerSho shogiTwo-PlayerShogiTwo-PlayerShogun (1976 board game)Two-PlayerStratomicTwo-PlayerTafl GamesTwo-PlayerTai shogiTwo-PlayerTaikyoku shogiTwo-PlayerTori shogiTwo-PlayerTrishogiTwo-PlayerWolf chessTwo-PlayerXiangqiTwo-PlayerYari shogiTwo-PlayerSources1. Wikipedia: Chaturangatier 2WikipediaChaturanga, Origin sectionQuote, Chaturanga, Origin sectionThe earliest clear reference comes from north India from the Gupta Empire, dating from the sixth century AD.View the Source2. Wikipedia: History of chesstier 2WikipediaHistory of chess, Origin sectionQuote, History of chess, Origin sectionChess spread throughout the world and many variants of the game soon began taking shapeView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.Essays About This Entity (1 essay)What Actually Holds The Chess Family TogetherRead the EssayFrequently Asked QuestionsWhat separates the Chess-Family War Games category from Modern Conquest and War Games?The dividing line is historical lineage: chess-family games descend from or parallel Chaturanga, while modern conquest games like Risk have no such lineage.Chess-Family War Games covers the chess family proper, games of differentiated armies descended from or parallel to the historical game of Chaturanga, including Chess, Xiangqi, Janggi and Shogi, where each piece has its own rank and movement rule. Modern Conquest and War Games instead covers 20th-century commercial games such as Diplomacy, Risk and Stratego that have no traditional chess-family lineage, so the dividing line is historical lineage rather than theme.