Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
223 public variants
Hopefully Tractable Penultima 1
penultima1version12
The Piece images are from https://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/alfaerieSVG/index.html. If you're playing this as a Penultima, you must turn off Show piece destinations and Show material difference in Board Settings and turn on Zen mode. You also cannot read any Rules of the variant past this point!
- Uploaded by
- PraseodymiumSpike
- Board
- 9 × 9
- Games
- 1
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
- 4
TicTacRook
tictacrook_v1
"Torre en raya" in spanish. TicTacRook is a deep, abstract strategy variant for Fairy-Stockfish that seamlessly fuses chess mobility with alignment goals. Played on an empty 8x8 grid, both players start with a reservoir of 16 pieces available to drop anywhere on the board. Alternatively, players can move their existing pieces, which slide horizontally or vertically exactly like Chess Rooks, but cannot capture or jump over others. The ultimate goal is to align 5 pieces in a row—horizontally, vertically, or diagonally—to win. This hyper-mobility transforms defensive blocking, offering a dynamic, tactical challenge where a single long-range slide can instantly shatter an opponent's strategy.
- Uploaded by
- alvr634
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 18
Crowded Xiangqi (擠迫棋)
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
- 33
UnbihexiumFan Evil Chess 3
ubhfan-evil-3
A variant with a 8x8 board, wazir-ferzes in the back rank, and three major pieces: queens, archbishops, and chancellors. Wazir-ferzes look the same as rooks, but don't be confused! They are not the same! They move one step diagonally, horizontally, or vertically.
- Uploaded by
- unbihexiumfan
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 23
Pemba
pemba
Created by Jean-Louis Cazaux. Pemba is filling the holes of the Shako's lineup. https://www.chessvariants.com/invention/pemba
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 6
8x7 chess
eightxseven_chess
16 Manns vs Chess Army
manns_horde_
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 62
Four musketeers
four___musketeers_
4 owerpowered pieces&king vs full army.
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 35
8x9 chess
eightxnine_chess
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
- 16
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
- 36
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
- 27
Woke chess
wokechesstest
Sylvia
sylvia_
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
- 52
Snake
leaper
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- Unsubscribe
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 34
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
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 242
Twister chess
twister-chess
Chess but your pieces must move to the square color indicated by the piece ! (currently doesn't work for black)
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 18