Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
363 public variants
Eco-friendly chess
eco-friendly
If you take a tree you must place it down on an empty space where there was one. Capture the enemy king or place 4 trees in a square to win !
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 116
- Favorites
- 7
Synochess v2
synochess_custom_v2
Synochess remake so it is more balanced
- Uploaded by
- Timur
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 12
- Favorites
- 4
Five-field Kono
kono
The traditional Korean board game
- Uploaded by
- Timur
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Games
- 18
- Favorites
- 3
Manchu v2
manchuv2
Manchu+ but more balanced
- Uploaded by
- Timur
- Board
- 9 × 10
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 2
Shatar (custom) v2
shatar_v2
Remake the original to make it closer to modern rules
- Uploaded by
- Timur
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 15
- Favorites
- 2
alquerque (kinda)
alquerque_v3
ultra finale v9-fairy.10 v2
ultrafinalev10_v6_v2
the biggest combat you have ever seen
- Uploaded by
- virajtheking
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 13
- Favorites
- 2
ultra finale v9-fairy.10
ultrafinalev10_v5
the biggest combat you have ever seen
- Uploaded by
- virajtheking
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 7
- Favorites
- 3
India Chess
indiacss
Pieces and pawns promote to get king movement...
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 7 × 8
- Games
- 25
- Favorites
- 4
Campmate Sittuyin
sittuyin-camp
Sittuyin but with a campmate rule.
- Uploaded by
- OtoMustam
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 10
- Favorites
- 1
Soldiers
pawn_army
Beggar
beggr
Widow
widow
Magaradga upgraged
maharajahs
Try to defeat this monster without pawns!
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 74
- Favorites
- 4
Harbranj
harbranj
Harbranj - A hybrid between Chess and Shatranj invented by A. M. DeWitt. Full rules: chessvariants.com
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 35
- Favorites
- 9
steward chess beta
steward_chess_beta
Double royal variant without check, similar to chaturanga. Resign when losing both royal pieces (steward and king) to play right.
- Uploaded by
- Dino3x3x3
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 9
- Favorites
- 1
maze 2.0
youtubemaze
maze 1.0
maze
Royal Party
royal_party_
All pieces move like a king, except for the queen, which moves only like a king. Pawns promote to a "queen."
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 54
- Favorites
- 5
Trapped
escpp