Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
366 public variants
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
QuickerUpper
quickerpawns
ShatarFairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 34
- Favorites
- 9
Squire v2
squirev2
Squire Chess is a fast, tactical chess variant played with only Kings and Pawns. Advance your foot soldiers across the board to earn their Knighthood, trap the enemy King, and win by checkmate or stalemate.
- Uploaded by
- DGiraffe1
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 21
- Favorites
- 3
Manchu Mirror
manchu_mirror
A variant of Manchu where both players get 2 Manchus as opposed to one side.
- Uploaded by
- Eventlesstew
- Board
- 9 × 10
- Games
- 29
- Favorites
- 4
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 15
- Favorites
- 8
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: chess.com
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 45
- Favorites
- 5
Shatar (custom)
shatar_custom
Sultan Chess
sultanchess
Rules from https://musketeerchess.net/ Black has an extremely powerful piece: the Sultan. Citadels and the Unicorn shall help white, but the Pawns refuse to promote
- Uploaded by
- hiyay
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 38
- Favorites
- 2
Maharajah and the Sepoys
maharajah
Pseudoqueen
asymmetrical_queens
Stuck
hardstuck
Pacifist
pacifist_king
Pwned
pwned
Rookie
royal_rook
TurnedTables
crazydoubled
Simple Snails vs Fabulous FIDEs
simple_snails_vs_fabulous_fides
- Uploaded by
- XMaxNas60rX
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 3
Dragons vs Chess
dragons_vs_chess
Who wins Dragons or the Hunters? chess vs 4 Dragons
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- rooks-pawn
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 56
- Favorites
- 3