Scirocco is a large chess variant inspired by historic European and Japanese chess variants.

Scirocco is remeniscent of Shogi variants from before the invention of piece drops. In particular the fact that all pieces can promote without choice for what they become, in a zone spanning multiple ranks, gives it a stong Chu-Shogi flavor. Yet it also adheres to the European traditions of 8-fold symmetric pieces and oblique leaps, and divergent Pawns. The weakness of the initial pieces reminds of the Medieval Courier Chess and Tamerlane Chess.

Scirocco was invented by Adrian King in 1998-1999, and the 'revised' version presented here stems from 2001.