Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
362 public variants
Thorough
though
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- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 78
- Favorites
- 3
Crowded Xiangqi (擠迫象棋)
crowdedxiangqi
A compressed (5 × 9) variant of Chinese Chess invented by Conway after all of his cheap magnetic boards broke in half. Pawns can move sideways at the second-last rank. Generals can fly horizontally in the shared central rank.
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- yawnoc
- Board
- 9 × 5
- Games
- 100
- Favorites
- 5
Shinobi minus
shinobi-minus
Variant based on Shinobi+, but White (Pink) has more improved, promoteless minor pieces in the pocket, except for the wooden horse which remains unchanged.
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 52
- Favorites
- 4
8x7 chess
eightxseven_chess
Chess on a 8x7 board.
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- zhangsean
- Board
- 8 × 7
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 4
16 Manns vs Chess Army
manns_horde_
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 87
- Favorites
- 5
Four musketeers
four___musketeers_
4 owerpowered pieces&king vs full army.
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 75
- Favorites
- 7
8x9 chess
eightxnine_chess
Chess on a 8x9 board.
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- zhangsean
- Board
- 8 × 9
- Games
- 9
- Favorites
- 5
Absolute Insanity
absoluteinsanity02
This variant of fairy chess is meant to assign each player a random assortment of fairy-chess pieces.
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- Beanie
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 23
- Favorites
- 5
Makruharadja
makruharadga
Amazon & 16 pawns vs makruk. Pawns can promote to a rook on the eighth rank.
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 53
- Favorites
- 7
Mythic Chess
mythicchess
Mythic Chess, 10 x 8 board with additional unicorn (knight camel compound) and dragon (knight bishop compound)
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- tea_drunk
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 37
- Favorites
- 6
Sylvia
sylvia_
a 6*6 version of chess.
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- lazybone
- Board
- 6 × 6
- Games
- 37
- Favorites
- 6
Chess vs Misere Tic-Tac-Toe
chessvsmisere5
Undead
undead
The White Necromancer has a large army of droppable weak undead pieces against the regular Black chess army.
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- AtomSchachMeister
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 101
- Favorites
- 8
Snake
leaper
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- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 43
- Favorites
- 3
Chess vs Tic-Tac-Toe
chessvsttt2
Black must align 4 to win. This variant has a massive advantage for Black and can be used as a challenge to beat Fairy-Stockfish
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- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 304
- Favorites
- 14
Twister chess
twister-chess
Chess but your pieces must move to the square color indicated by the piece ! (currently doesn't work for black)
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- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 21
- Favorites
- 4
Steedly
steedchess
Holy
holychess
Eco-friendly chess
eco-friendly
If you take a tree you must place it down on an empty space where there was one. Capture the enemy king or place 4 trees in a square to win !
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- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 115
- Favorites
- 7
Synochess v2
synochess_custom_v2
Synochess remake so it is more balanced
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- Timur
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 12
- Favorites
- 4