Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
366 public variants
Absolute Chess
allwhitepromote
Gothamchess
gothamchess
GuerrilaChess
chessgg
Black has normal army without pawns but White has defensive walls along with only a single amazon..
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 50
- Favorites
- 5
Maze Hills
mzerace
Maze war hills
mazeflanks
Full army maze game..
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 12 × 10
- Games
- 21
- Favorites
- 3
Enneachess
enneachess_v2
A 9x9 variant of chess where the white side has a general (centaur) and the black side has an archbishop.
- Uploaded by
- CouchTomato87
- Board
- 9 × 9
- Games
- 10
- Favorites
- 3
Opposition
opp
Empire MirrorX
empiremirrorx
See https://www.pychess.org/variants/empire
- Uploaded by
- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 73
- Favorites
- 7
Spartan MirrorX
spartanmirrorx
See https://www.pychess.org/variants/spartan
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 80
- Favorites
- 11
ThatRoyal
queenforaking
Atomic Cabalbanca
atomiccapashift2026
Capablanca Atomic Chess that combines the Capablanca Chess and Atomic Chess. To balance the intense tactical gameplay, all pawns start advanced one square forward.
- Uploaded by
- Chesstester
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 76
- Favorites
- 3
Amazon for Queen-2B Variant
amazonchess_v2b
ShiftedLeft
itstrulyshiftedleft
Amazon for Queen
amazonchess
ItsOver
ultimatepiecechess
NightMare
allknightnightmare
Ches
badchess
Forwardly
onlyforwardly
Argess
argess
I didn't invent this variant! See https://www.chessvariants.com/diffsetup.dir/argess.html. Note that this version is not guaranteed to be completely accurate to the rules given on chessvariants.com, but I believe the rules are essentially correctly represented as of the time of writing. The configuration code is from https://github.com/fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish/blob/master/src/variants.ini, where it is given as an example.
- Uploaded by
- PraseodymiumSpike
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 27
- Favorites
- 2
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 12 × 8
- Games
- 55
- Favorites
- 6
Courier Chess