Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
297 public variants
Antihouse
aaantihouse
10x10 Two Knights Game
deckcheckreqchess7
Atomic makruk
atomicmakruk
- Uploaded by
- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 80
- Favorites
- 2
Ferz Army
ferzhorde
25 Ferz (with king) Vs Chess army. Don't worry about the engine's initial evaluation. Setting custom piece values for the ferzes requires changing the variant's ID name, which causes runtime errors. So the base code is used, meaning the engine will miscalculate and underestimate the Ferz Army. Recommended to play against AI level 4 or higher for the best challenge.
- Uploaded by
- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 30
- Favorites
- 4
Touchdown
endzoned
Harbranj v0
harbranj7
Harbranj — A hybrid between Chess and Shatranj invented by A. M. DeWitt. Full rules: chessvariants.com
- Uploaded by
- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 12
- Favorites
- 1
Prügelpreußen
prussianpawns
Casual play recommended, variant is solved, no draws exist. Also called "Bauernkloppe" or "Pawn Brawl" the variant is usally used in education to teach zugzwang and pawn structures, despite being solved it is suprisingly competitve and complicated. The Rules: There are only pawns on the board, first to reach backrank wins, if you cant move you loose.
- Uploaded by
- SchachLinus
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 165
- Favorites
- 8
Absolute Chess
allwhitepromote
Gothamchess
gothamchess
GuerrilaChess
chessgg
Black has normal army without pawns but White has defensive walls along with only a single amazon..
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 50
- Favorites
- 5
Maze Hills
mzerace
Maze war hills
mazeflanks
Full army maze game..
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 12 × 10
- Games
- 21
- Favorites
- 3
Enneachess
enneachess_v2
A 9x9 variant of chess where the white side has a general (centaur) and the black side has an archbishop.
- Uploaded by
- CouchTomato87
- Board
- 9 × 9
- Games
- 10
- Favorites
- 3
Opposition
opp
Empire MirrorX
empiremirrorx
See https://www.pychess.org/variants/empire
- Uploaded by
- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 70
- Favorites
- 5
Spartan MirrorX
spartanmirrorx
See https://www.pychess.org/variants/spartan
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 70
- Favorites
- 7
ThatRoyal
queenforaking
Atomic Cabalbanca
atomiccapashift2026
Capablanca Atomic Chess that combines the Capablanca Chess and Atomic Chess. To balance the intense tactical gameplay, all pawns start advanced one square forward.
- Uploaded by
- Chesstester
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 74
- Favorites
- 3
Amazon for Queen-2B Variant
amazonchess_v2b
ShiftedLeft
itstrulyshiftedleft