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Community variants

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

134 public variants

Amazon Chess

amazon

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
18

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Almost Chess

almost

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

References: Wikipedia

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Fairy-Stockfish
Board
8 × 8
Games
11

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Default starting positionRNBCKBNRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPRNBCKBNR

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

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Fairy-Stockfish
Board
8 × 8
Games
0

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Promotion

promotion

Every piece including kings promotes to its upgraded form when reaching the backrank.

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Rayenhero1000
Board
8 × 8
Games
60

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Default starting positionRNBQKBNRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPRNBQKBNR

Minihouse Chess

minihouse2

​A fast-paced, highly tactical adaptation of the popular Chess.com variant. Played on a compact 6x6 board, you command a specialized micro-army containing just a King, Rook, Knight, Bishop, and a single Pawn.

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Hailstorm
Board
6 × 6
Games
21

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Default starting positionBNRKPPKRNB

Promotables

promotables

Every piece can promote.

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Rom142857
Board
8 × 8
Games
21

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Connect Four

cfour

Connect 4 is a classic two-player strategy game where the goal is to be the first to get four of your pieces in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Players take turns dropping colored discs into a grid, blocking their opponent while trying to create their own line.

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tititogepi
Board
7 × 6
Games
248

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Immobile King

immobileking_v1_1

Chess but the King can't move at all.

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zegRxOkNsA
Board
8 × 8
Games
17

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House on the Hill

house_on_the_hill

Combination of Crazyhouse and King of the Hill. Checkmate the king or get your king to the center, taken pieces become your own to place later.

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hyulgaeth
Board
8 × 8
Games
67

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Default starting positionRNBQKBNRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPRNBQKBNR

Tic-tac-toe

tictactoe

The classic three-in-a-row game.

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ubdip
Board
3 × 3
Games
126

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Camel Chess

camel_chess

A variant of chess that uses Wildebeest's Camel and Wildebeest in place of the Bishop and Queen, along with triple-stepping Pawns.

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Eventlesstew
Board
8 × 8
Games
11

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Manchu Mirror

manchu_mirror

A variant of Manchu where both players get 2 Manchus as opposed to one side.

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Eventlesstew
Board
9 × 10
Games
14

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Default starting positionMBAKABMPPPPPPPPPPMBAKABM

Longhouse

longhouse

Longer board version of Crazyhouse

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hyulgaeth
Board
8 × 10
Games
39

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shatranjhouse

shatranjhouse

shatranj + zh

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gbtami
Board
8 × 8
Games
20

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Default starting positionRNBKQBNRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPRNBKQBNR

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