Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
297 public variants
Beggar
beggr
Widow
widow
Magaradga upgraged
maharajahs
Try to defeat this monster without pawns!
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 74
- Favorites
- 4
Harbranj
harbranj
Harbranj - A hybrid between Chess and Shatranj invented by A. M. DeWitt. Full rules: chessvariants.com
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 31
- Favorites
- 7
steward chess beta
steward_chess_beta
Double royal variant without check, similar to chaturanga. Resign when losing both royal pieces (steward and king) to play right.
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- Dino3x3x3
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 9
- Favorites
- 1
maze 2.0
youtubemaze
maze 1.0
maze
Royal Party
royal_party_
All pieces move like a king, except for the queen, which moves only like a king. Pawns promote to a "queen."
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 54
- Favorites
- 5
Trapped
escpp
QuickerUpper
quickerpawns
ShatarFairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 34
- Favorites
- 7
Squire v2
squirev2
Squire Chess is a fast, tactical chess variant played with only Kings and Pawns. Advance your foot soldiers across the board to earn their Knighthood, trap the enemy King, and win by checkmate or stalemate.
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- DGiraffe1
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 21
- Favorites
- 3
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
- 29
- Favorites
- 4
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 13
- Favorites
- 6
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: chess.com
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 44
- Favorites
- 3
Shatar (custom)
shatar_custom
Sultan Chess
sultanchess
Rules from https://musketeerchess.net/ Black has an extremely powerful piece: the Sultan. Citadels and the Unicorn shall help white, but the Pawns refuse to promote
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- hiyay
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 29
- Favorites
- 2
Maharajah and the Sepoys
maharajah
Pseudoqueen
asymmetrical_queens
Stuck
hardstuck