Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
297 public variants
Absolute Insanity v2
absoluteinsanity03
This variant of fairy chess is meant to assign each player a random assortment of fairy-chess pieces.
- Uploaded by
- Beanie
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 6
- Favorites
- 1
Different Armies HWAGKAWH
differentarmies_v3
Classical White (RNBQKBNR) plays against the empirically balanced Black army HWAGKAWH (reported White score: 50.67%). Black's pieces are: H = Biskni, moves like a Bishop but captures/checks like a Knight (value = 2.49 pawn); W = Rooman, moves like a Rook but captures like a non-royal King (value = 3.28 pawn); A = Archbishop, combines Bishop and Knight movement (value = 6.79); G = Manroo, moves like a non-royal King but captures/checks like a Rook (value = 3.74). Otherwise the rules are those of chess, except there is no castling; pawns promote to Queen (value = 8.50), Rook (value = 4.26), Bishop (value = 3.28), or Knight (value = 2.97). Source: https://github.com/Zekkzekk/Fairy-chess/blob/main/Balanced_fairy_chess_setup_by_theme.pdf
- Uploaded by
- Zekk1302
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 41
- Favorites
- 4
Delta Chess
deltachess
A simple complex chess-like game
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- starmanlegend
- Board
- 6 × 6
- Games
- 27
- Favorites
- 2
Delta
delta
A simple complex chess-like game
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- starmanlegend
- Board
- 6 × 6
- Games
- 7
- Favorites
- 0
Grasshopper King
grasshopperking
All the rules of Chess apply except that the King's normal move is replace by that of a Grasshopper and that stalemate's are a loss for the stalemated player. In order to move or capture, the grasshopper king (shown as an inverted king) must jump over a piece and land on the square immediately beyond that piece. The king may jump orthogonally or diagonally.Note that because of the asymmetrical King movement it is possible for the Kings to give check and even checkmate to one another.
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 31
- Favorites
- 6
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 31
- Favorites
- 6
Shinshogi (新将棋)
shinshogi
New Shogi. The 'Keima (桂馬)' has been removed, and the 'Copper General (銅将)', 'Drunken Elephant (酔象)', and 'Knight (騎士)' have been added. With the exception of the King, all pieces can move like the King upon promotion, in addition to their existing movement. Pawn drop checkmates are also possible, and there are no draws.
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- Snowmoondaphne
- Board
- 9 × 9
- Games
- 20
- Favorites
- 4
the seeker
morestuff
adds a new piece called the "seeker"
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- Meogamer2
- Board
- 7 × 8
- Games
- 19
- Favorites
- 3
Wives
all_q
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- Unsubscribe
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 25
- Favorites
- 3
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Chess Variant Pages
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 21
- Favorites
- 5
Modern v. Army
modernvarmy
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- Unsubscribe
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 56
- Favorites
- 3
DES
aatomic-capablanca
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 42
- Favorites
- 10
Mini Amazons v2.0
mini_amazons_v2_0
Mini courier
mini-courier_
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- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 35
- Favorites
- 4
Sword Dance
jianwu6
Also known as Jianwu or 剑舞. *Note: If you think the colour of the board and the colours of pieces are not in harmony to each other, please ping me (Dan-kyu_System) on Pychess Discord server with your .svg files for the board and pieces.
- Uploaded by
- The_SPToan60
- Board
- 7 × 8
- Games
- 33
- Favorites
- 7
Anti Mini Shogi v1.0
antiminishogi
Grand Two Kings Chess v1.2
twokings10x10_v1_2
A Game with 2 kings,Protect your 2 kings. Board is 10x10.
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- chen-rcc
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 22
- Favorites
- 4
Veguichess
veguichess_v2
The king is a normal king (the K piece); the knight is a normal knight (the N piece); pawns are normal pawns (the P pieces), they can move two squares in the first move and capture en-passant and they promote to Vegui (the P+ piece) that moves like a king but you don't chekmate it; the cardinal (the C piece) moves like a bishop+king so it isn't stuck in one colour; the monk moves 1 square diagonally and promotes to a cardinal; the imperial (the I piece) moves like a rook + king; the soldier (the S piece) moves one square horizontally or vertically and promotes to an imperial. Castling is disabled and statlemate is a draw.
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- oCabalodeBastos
- Board
- 7 × 8
- Games
- 57
- Favorites
- 3
UnCrazy Dobutsu
uncrazy_dobut_v1
Grasshopper Chess