Community variants

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

297 public variants

Regularchess

stalechess

Uploaded by: King_Keeg
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 12
Favorites: 1

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SuperWhite

superwhitechess

Yes

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

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All Promote v2

allpromote_v2

Uploaded by: King_Keeg
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 8
Favorites: 2

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A 6x6 Shogi variant designed by Wayne Schmittberger. In Whale Shogi players have a very weak piece (the Porpoise) that if captured gives the capturing player the strongest piece of the game in hand: the Killer Whale. Detailed rules are available on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shogi In this modified version, Dolphins (pawns) promote on the last rank and gain the ability to move and capture diagonally backwards.

Uploaded by: gbtami
Board: 6 × 6
Games: 31
Favorites: 4

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Potent Knight Chess

potent-knight

Knights are enhanced with a non-capturing diagonal step, allowing a pair to force mate.

Uploaded by: RubixOne
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 17
Favorites: 2

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Saharian Chess

saharian_chess

10x10 Chess featuring Camels and Cannons. Pawns promote at last ranks. The king moves two steps when castling king-side, and three steps when castling queenside.

Uploaded by: sagig72
Board: 10 × 10
Games: 33
Favorites: 3

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Wojtek chess

wojtek-chess

Uploaded by: Astowa
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 36
Favorites: 2

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Backward capture pawns

backwards_capture_pawns

Pawns capture one square diagonally in any direction including backwards, make non-capture moves like in ordinary chess. Pawn can always double step from first and second rank regardless how they got there, pawn on 7th rank can capture en passant backwards. Promoting once reaching 8th rank is optional, it is allowed to keep a pawn unpromoted

Uploaded by: e-pluszak
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 12
Favorites: 4

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Rage Bait Chess

goon_engine_eval

Pieces can promote on last rank to Bouncy Knight and get win on enemy camp square queen to win.

Uploaded by: Hailstorm
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 22
Favorites: 3

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Super Tic-tac-toe

tictactoe5

Tic tac Toe on a massive 5x5 board. Connect 4 in any direction to win...

Uploaded by: Hailstorm
Board: 5 × 5
Games: 132
Favorites: 7

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Chess 5x5

chess_5x5

Uploaded by: Astowa
Board: 5 × 5
Games: 49
Favorites: 2

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Cannon Pawn Chess

cannon_pawn_chess

Cannon Pawn Chess replaces the pawns with cannon pawns. All else is as in Chess (castling, promotions) other than there is no en-passant capture. Cannon Pawns move as a king OR they can hop over any adjacent piece to either land on a vacant square behind it (move) or if that landing square is occupied by an enemy piece, the cannon pawn will capture it by displacement.

Uploaded by: sagig72
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 57
Favorites: 2

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Communist chess

communist_vs_capitalist

Uploaded by: Rom142857
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 34
Favorites: 4

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Rush for the Hills v2

rushforhills

Promote a knight and get to the Hills!

Uploaded by: Hailstorm
Board: 8 × 10
Games: 23
Favorites: 3

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Janus Chess

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

References: Wikipedia

Uploaded by: Fairy-Stockfish
Board: 10 × 8
Games: 11
Favorites: 4

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Yari Shogi

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

References: Wikipedia

Uploaded by: Fairy-Stockfish
Board: 7 × 9
Games: 36
Favorites: 4

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Remarkable Rookies vs Nutty Knights

rookiesvsknights

Betza's Chess with Different Armies Remarkable Rookies vs Nutty Knights match. Both players’ pieces, except Kings and Pawns, are replaced with new ones, illustrated below, always in this order: Rook, then Knight, then Bishop, then Queen replacement. Please read the variant definition.ini definition for detailed rules.

Uploaded by: Watermelonely
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 7
Favorites: 5

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Colorbound Clobberers vs Nutty Knights

clobberersvsknights

Betza's Chess with Different Armies Colorbound Clobberers vs Nutty Knights match. Both players’ pieces, except Kings and Pawns, are replaced with new ones, illustrated below, always in this order: Rook, then Knight, then Bishop, then Queen replacement. Please read the variant definition.ini definition for detailed rules.

Uploaded by: Watermelonely
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 8
Favorites: 3

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Colorbound Clobberers vs Remarkable Rookies

clobberersvsrookies

Betza's Chess with Different Armies Colorbound Clobberers vs Remarkable Rookies match. Both players’ pieces, except Kings and Pawns, are replaced with new ones, illustrated below, always in this order: Rook, then Knight, then Bishop, then Queen replacement. Please read the variant definition.ini definition for detailed rules.

Uploaded by: Watermelonely
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 48
Favorites: 4

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FIDE vs Nutty Knights

fidevsknights

Betza's Chess with Different Armies FIDE vs Nutty Knights match. One players’ pieces, except Kings and Pawns, are replaced with new ones, illustrated below, always in this order: Rook, then Knight, then Bishop, then Queen replacement. Please read the variant definition.ini definition for detailed rules.

Uploaded by: Watermelonely
Board: 8 × 8
Games: 25
Favorites: 4

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