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Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.

366 public variants

Absolute Chess

allwhitepromote
Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
75
Favorites
1

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Gothamchess

gothamchess

Levy Rosman

Uploaded by
Orca
Board
8 × 8
Games
132
Favorites
1

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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

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Maze Hills

mzerace

Reach the hills!!

Uploaded by
Hailstorm
Board
12 × 10
Games
35
Favorites
4

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Maze war hills

mazeflanks

Full army maze game..

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Hailstorm
Board
12 × 10
Games
21
Favorites
3

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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

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Orca
Board
8 × 8
Games
19
Favorites
1

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Empire MirrorX

empiremirrorx

See https://www.pychess.org/variants/empire

Uploaded by
sagig72
Board
8 × 8
Games
73
Favorites
7

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Spartan MirrorX

spartanmirrorx

See https://www.pychess.org/variants/spartan

Uploaded by
gbtami
Board
8 × 8
Games
80
Favorites
11

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ThatRoyal

queenforaking
Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
15
Favorites
1

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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

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Amazon for Queen-2B Variant

amazonchess_v2b

Amazon for a Queen

Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
69
Favorites
2

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ShiftedLeft

itstrulyshiftedleft
Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
10
Favorites
1

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Amazon for Queen

amazonchess

Amazon for a Queen

Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
41
Favorites
2

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ItsOver

ultimatepiecechess
Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
96
Favorites
3

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NightMare

allknightnightmare
Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
15
Favorites
1

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Ches

badchess
Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
9
Favorites
0

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Forwardly

onlyforwardly
Uploaded by
King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
27
Favorites
1

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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.

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PraseodymiumSpike
Board
8 × 8
Games
27
Favorites
2

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Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.

References: Wikipedia

Uploaded by
Fairy-Stockfish
Board
12 × 8
Games
55
Favorites
6

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