Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
297 public variants
Nutty Knights Mirror
knightsmirror
Betza's Chess with Different Armies Nutty Knights Mirror 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
- 4
- Favorites
- 4
FIDE vs Remarkable Rookies
fidevsrookies
Betza's Chess with Different Armies FIDE vs Remarkable Rookies 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
- 34
- Favorites
- 4
Remarkable Rookies Mirror
rookiesmirror
Betza's Chess with Different Armies Remarkable Rookies Mirror 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
- 2
- Favorites
- 4
FIDE vs Colorbound Clobberers
fidevsclobberers
Betza's Chess with Different Armies FIDE vs Colorbound Clobberers 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
- 31
- Favorites
- 4
Colorbound Clobberers Mirror
clobberersmirror
Betza's Chess with Different Armies Colorbound Clobberers Mirror 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.
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- Watermelonely
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 3
- Favorites
- 4
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Chess Variant Pages
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 8
- Favorites
- 3
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Chess Variant Pages
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 88
- Favorites
- 6
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: eglebbk.dds.nl
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 12 × 10
- Games
- 20
- Favorites
- 3
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Chess Variant Pages
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 11
- Favorites
- 4
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 4
- Favorites
- 5
Reversed chess
reversed
Get checkmated to win
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 38
- Favorites
- 3
Super duper mega Tic-Tac-Toe
tictactoe9new
9x9 board, align 6 to win
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 9 × 9
- Games
- 79
- Favorites
- 3
Super duper Tic-Tac-Toe
tictactoe7
Tic-Tac-Toe on a 7x7 board, align 5 to win
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 7 × 7
- Games
- 42
- Favorites
- 3
Mini Capablanca
mini_capablanca
Capablanca chess on a regular 8x8 chess board. The Archbishop and Chancellor replace the two knights. All else is as in Chess.
- Uploaded by
- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 31
- Favorites
- 4
chessvsshogi
chessvsshogi
- Uploaded by
- doducthien1705
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 16
- Favorites
- 3
Camelblanca
camelblanca
capablanca chess with camels
- Uploaded by
- tea_drunk
- Board
- 12 × 8
- Games
- 131
- Favorites
- 8
Hormuz Chess
chesshormuz
Chess of Hormuz is a tactical chess variant played on an 8×9 board where the center rank is blocked by indestructible walls, leaving only a narrow 2-file gap open in the middle. With both flanks permanently sealed, standard forces and elite fairy pieces—the Amazon, Archbishop, Chancellor, and Centaur—must fight head-on through a brutal central choke-point. There is no castling, and the Kings start aligned directly down the open channel.
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 9
- Games
- 43
- Favorites
- 4
Chrząszczyżewoszyce chess
chrzaszcz
Variant in the spirit of Hoppel-Poppel and New Zealand, rooks capture like bishops, bishops capture like rooks. In the standard piece set piece at the bottom is how the piece moves, at the top is how it captures.
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- e-pluszak
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 5
- Favorites
- 2
Mini Makruk House v2
mnimak_v2
A compact 5×6 fusion of Makruk and Crazyhouse. Capture pieces to add them to your pocket, then drop them back onto the board to create fresh tactical opportunities.
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 5 × 6
- Games
- 15
- Favorites
- 3
Dragonfly
dragonfly
Simplified Crazyhouse. Special pawn promotion rules from the original definition are not implemented. Credits to Procyon for the definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(chess_variant)
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 7 × 7
- Games
- 32
- Favorites
- 4
Pocket Knight Chess