Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
297 public variants
Mini Breakthrough v3.3
breakthrough6_v3_3
Crazy Mini Breakthrough v1.2
crazy_breakthrough6_v1_2
A variant of minibreakthrough-6x6 But CRAZY! Catalogue: 27.08.26 v1.0:Release v1.1:Solved 3 fold no draw bug
- Uploaded by
- chen-rcc
- Board
- 6 × 6
- Games
- 22
- Favorites
- 4
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
- 60
- Favorites
- 11
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 2
- Favorites
- 2
Mini shako
mini_-_shako
- Uploaded by
- Chesstester
- Board
- 7 × 7
- Games
- 29
- Favorites
- 5
Warui-shogi
waruishogi2
Play this modern twist on shogi and advance calculated attacks. [Chess.com Variants]
- Uploaded by
- The_SPToan60
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 35
- Favorites
- 5
Radagast Chess
radagastchess
10x8 chess with wizard (camel bishop compound) and mushroom (1 or 2 squares in any direction with jump, ie any square a king could get to with two moves). In honor of Radagast the Brown
- Uploaded by
- tea_drunk
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 57
- Favorites
- 6
Maharajah and the Sepoys
maharajah_and_the_sepoys
Remake the original so pawns can move to the 8th rank
- Uploaded by
- Timur
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 39
- Favorites
- 5
Great-grand chess
great-grand_chess
Grand chess on a 12x10 board.
- Uploaded by
- zhangsean
- Board
- 12 × 10
- Games
- 16
- Favorites
- 3
Falcon vs Orda
falcon-against_orda
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 23
- Favorites
- 4
UnbihexiumFan Evil Chess 4
ubhfan-evil-4
A variant with a 8x8 board, wazirs in the back rank, and three major pieces: queens, archbishops, and chancellors. Wazirs move one step horizontally or vertically, archbishops move like bishops or horseys, and chancellors move like rooks or horseys. Wazirs are represented the same way as rooks due to technical limitations, but don't get them confused!
- Uploaded by
- unbihexiumfan
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 7
- Favorites
- 3
Thorough
though
- Uploaded by
- Unsubscribe
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 77
- 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.
- Uploaded by
- yawnoc
- Board
- 9 × 5
- Games
- 99
- Favorites
- 4
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.
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 39
- Favorites
- 4
8x7 chess
eightxseven_chess
Chess on a 8x7 board.
- Uploaded by
- zhangsean
- Board
- 8 × 7
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 4
16 Manns vs Chess Army
manns_horde_
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 86
- Favorites
- 5
Four musketeers
four___musketeers_
4 owerpowered pieces&king vs full army.
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 61
- Favorites
- 6
8x9 chess
eightxnine_chess
Chess on a 8x9 board.
- Uploaded by
- 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.
- Uploaded by
- 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.
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 50
- Favorites
- 7
Georgian Chess