Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
122 public variants
Gardner Minichess
gardner
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Games
- 4
Courier Chess
courier
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 12 × 8
- Games
- 5
Coregal Chess
coregal
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Chess Variant Pages
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 1
Codrus
codrus
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Binnewirtz
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 0
Chaturanga
chaturanga
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 4
Chancellor Chess
chancellor
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 9 × 9
- Games
- 1
Centaur Chess
centaur
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Chess Variant Pages
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 1
Atomar
atomar
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Archived rules
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 1
Amazon Chess
amazon
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Chess Variant Pages
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 17
Almost Chess
almost
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 11
Five-Check Chess
5check
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 0
Promotion
promotion
Every piece including kings promotes to its upgraded form when reaching the backrank.
- Uploaded by
- Rayenhero1000
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 60
Minihouse Chess
minihouse2
A fast-paced, highly tactical adaptation of the popular Chess.com variant. Played on a compact 6x6 board, you command a specialized micro-army containing just a King, Rook, Knight, Bishop, and a single Pawn.
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 6 × 6
- Games
- 21
Promotables
promotables
Connect Four
cfour
Connect 4 is a classic two-player strategy game where the goal is to be the first to get four of your pieces in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Players take turns dropping colored discs into a grid, blocking their opponent while trying to create their own line.
- Uploaded by
- tititogepi
- Board
- 7 × 6
- Games
- 233
Immobile King
immobileking_v1_1
Chess but the King can't move at all.
- Uploaded by
- zegRxOkNsA
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 17
House on the Hill
house_on_the_hill
Combination of Crazyhouse and King of the Hill. Checkmate the king or get your king to the center, taken pieces become your own to place later.
- Uploaded by
- hyulgaeth
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 67
Tic-tac-toe
tictactoe
Camel Chess
camel_chess
A variant of chess that uses Wildebeest's Camel and Wildebeest in place of the Bishop and Queen, along with triple-stepping Pawns.
- Uploaded by
- Eventlesstew
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 11
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
- 14