Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
359 public variants
Seirawan Plus Minus
seirawanplusplusminus_1
Archbishop demoted into Leopard. An attempt to try keep it less top-heavy aligned.
- Uploaded by
- Nordlandia
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 28
- Favorites
- 1
Mayhem Chess v2 (FIX)
mayhemchessv3
Accidentally add Paladin next to queen and king and supposed to be Janus. And promotion incorrect. Created by Christina Ziolkowski,full rule:https://www.chessvariants.com/diffsetup.dir/mayhem.html
- Uploaded by
- brotopskeu_46227
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 4
- Favorites
- 2
Mayhem Chess
mayhemchess
Created by Christina Ziolkowski,full rule:https://www.chessvariants.com/diffsetup.dir/mayhem.html
- Uploaded by
- brotopskeu_46227
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 2
- Favorites
- 1
Sidewaysbacktorpedo chess
sidewaysbacktorpedo
Kramnik's nightmare.
- Uploaded by
- zegRxOkNsA
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 12
- Favorites
- 4
Muskeeter chess (dragon and fortress)
muskeeterchessdragonfortress3
Each player get dragon and fortress.
- Uploaded by
- Le_kw
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 6
- Favorites
- 3
Lion chess
lionchess
Capablanca Centaur/Leopard
capablancacentaur1
- Uploaded by
- Nordlandia
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 7
- Favorites
- 1
S-Chess Hippocentaur
musketeerchesscentaur
S-Chess with Centaurs and Leopards.
- Uploaded by
- Nordlandia
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 4
- Favorites
- 2
Shako cburnett v2
shakocburnettv2
Shako redesign
- Uploaded by
- brotopskeu_46227
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 3
- Favorites
- 2
Advance Chess
advancechess
The very modest chess variant Advance Chess by Tony Paletta, in which pawns begin advanced by a single rank.
- Uploaded by
- KiteX3
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 3
- Favorites
- 1
Geometry Chess
geometrydash
Geometry dash but chess
- Uploaded by
- Figure1REALalt
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 26
- Favorites
- 2
Blunderful
blunderful
If a blunder is possible, you must take it
- Uploaded by
- Figure1REALalt
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 10
- Favorites
- 1
Anchess
anchess
Try to play neutrally 0.5 "anti"/"giveaway" modifiers
- Uploaded by
- Figure1REALalt
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 9
- Favorites
- 1
Antiantichess
antiantichess
Try to lose antichess
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- Figure1REALalt
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 12
- Favorites
- 1
Open Chess
everythingherebro
All available units in PyChess (Idk how to put SVG file, same letter will removed weaker piece sorry)
- Uploaded by
- Henryred1304
- Board
- 12 × 10
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 0
Dog vs cat (swap)
dogvscatswap
Same as dog vs cat rule,if you are unfamiliar this variant,check orginial.dog replace white queen and cat replace queen.
- Uploaded by
- brotopskeu_46227
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 5
- Favorites
- 1
archchancellor_house
archchancellor_house
Five Pawn
ashejji_v3
Xiangqi VS Shogi(No Dropping)
xiangqi_vs_shogi_alt2
Xiangqi vs Shogi. 2 extra soldiers on Shogi side was added on b7 and h7 to limit cannon. The Flying general rule was enabled. Both perpetual check and stalemate result in a loss. It is noted that some pieces' names were changed due to duplication of names. Xiangqi: K -> W(Wazir) H -> O(hOrse), P -> I(soldIer) Shogi: R -> F(Flying chariot)
- Uploaded by
- lazybone
- Board
- 9 × 10
- Games
- 3
- Favorites
- 2
Xiangqi VS Shogi Alt
xiangqi_vs_shogi_alt1
Xiangqi vs Shogi. an extra soldier on Shogi side was added on h7 to limit cannon(similar to my another variant, but the extra soldier was on another grid). The Drop rule and The Flying general rule were both enabled. Both perpetual check and stalemate result in a loss. It is noted that some pieces' names were changed due to duplication of names. Xiangqi: K -> W(Wazir) H -> O(hOrse), P -> I(soldIer) Shogi: R -> F(Flying chariot)
- Uploaded by
- lazybone
- Board
- 9 × 10
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 4