Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
192 public variants
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.
- Uploaded by
- DGiraffe1
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 6
Manchu Mirror
manchu_mirror
A variant of Manchu where both players get 2 Manchus as opposed to one side.
- Uploaded by
- Eventlesstew
- Board
- 9 × 10
- Games
- 23
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 9
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: chess.com
- Uploaded by
- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 18
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
- Uploaded by
- hiyay
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 5
Maharajah and the Sepoys
maharajah
Pseudoqueen
asymmetrical_queens
Stuck
hardstuck
Alquerque(kinda)
alquerque
Five-field Kono
kono
Pacifist
pacifist_king
Pwned
pwned
Rookie
royal_rook
Counterintuitive chess
counterintuitive
Learn the piece movements by yourself.
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 8
Atomichouse
atomic-crazyhouse
Trapped
escpp
TurnedTables
crazydoubled
Simple Snails vs Fabulous FIDEs
simple_snails_vs_fabulous_fides
- Uploaded by
- XMaxNas60rX
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 7
Dragons vs Chess
dragons_vs_chess
Who wins Dragons or the Hunters? chess vs 4 Dragons
- Uploaded by
- rooks-pawn
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 25
Legan Chess