Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
372 public variants
Potent Knight Chess
potent-knight
Knights are enhanced with a non-capturing diagonal step, allowing a pair to force mate.
- Uploaded by
- RubixOne
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 24
- Favorites
- 4
Short chess
mysevencamel11
Short chess00
mysevencamel2
Douglas Modern chess
douglasmodernchess2
https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/douglas-modern-chess The rules are as per standard chess. Castling: A consquence of the start position is that there is no castling, although human players may agree to allow castling on the queen's side in a manner analagous to castling on the king's side in regular chess. Pawns: pawns on the 3 and 6 ranks make an initial move of 1 step. Pawns on 2 and 7 rank may make an intial 2-step move. En passant: en passant works as normal, but only for the pawns that started on ranks 2 and 7, as per normal chess.
- Uploaded by
- Le_kw
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 3
- Favorites
- 1
baby Chess
baby2_5x5_v4
In 1989, Martin Gardner proposed this setup, which he called Baby chess. In difference from Gardner minichess, black pieces are mirrored.
- Uploaded by
- lukenukem_ita
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Games
- 32
- Favorites
- 4
Light Army VS. Normal Chess v2
light_army__v2
The white player only needs to check the black king four times to win (checkmate is still possible), but the white army is much weaker.
- Uploaded by
- Joschi1
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 11
- Favorites
- 2
Syno mirror
synomirror2
Mirror version of synochess.
- Uploaded by
- brotopskeu_46227
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 20
- Favorites
- 3
chancellorqueen_house
chancellorqueen_house
Just Crazyhouse but Chancellor replace the Black Queen
- Uploaded by
- doducthien1705
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 16
- Favorites
- 3
archqueen_house
archqueen_house
Crazyhouse but 1 Queen vs 2 Archbishops in the setup of Normal Chess
- Uploaded by
- doducthien1705
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 12
- Favorites
- 3
Escacs de arquers vs Chess
ferzmann1
Inspired by neroidtotale. Classical White fight against Black with Escacs de arquers army. E Ferz Alfil: moves like the combine of Ferz and Alfil. M Commoner: The Non-royal King. These two pieces replace black bishops. Black pawns can't promotes to bishops.
- Uploaded by
- doducthien1705
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 3
- Favorites
- 1
Amazon Chancellor Archbishop
amazon_chancellor_archbishop
8x8 chess with two Chancellors, two Archbishops and one Amazon
- Uploaded by
- OP_GOD11
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 6
- Favorites
- 2
Light Army VS. Normal Chess
light_army
The white player only needs to check the black king three times to win (checkmate is still possible), but the white army is much weaker.
- Uploaded by
- Joschi1
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 3
Chancellor checkmate practice
chancellor_practice
A chancellor version of archbishop checkmate practice. (by i-have-a-clue and credit to I-have-a-clue for variant ini definition too.) Watch this video if you want to understand (video by blunder fish 64 not mine.):https://youtu.be/pL_bim5VVgc?si=x9RLyPDW2MLsqCUC
- Uploaded by
- brotopskeu_46227
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 13
- Favorites
- 4
Escacs de arquers
ferzmann2
- Uploaded by
- neroidtotale
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 7
- Favorites
- 1
hoktada
hoktada5
9x9 variant. No, not actually a 9x9 variant, an 8x8 variant. Rooks are dabbabas + pawns, bishops are alfils + pawns, knights are xiangqi horses + pawns, queens move as queens and capture as pawns. kings are the same as regular chess kings. checkmate the enemy king or get your king to where the enemy's king and queen starts to win.
- Uploaded by
- veslonx
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 5
- Favorites
- 0
Piece Nuisance
piecenuisancesoggyedition
A simple variant that adds a couple of capturable walls? For most player it is not much of a deal, but for N O O B S (like me), these walls will make your experience a bit confusing. Currently, this variant is SOGGED up!
- Uploaded by
- Acrodream
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 11
- Favorites
- 1
miniorda_5x5
miniorda7_5x5
- Uploaded by
- lukenukem_ita
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Games
- 22
- Favorites
- 2
Rural Chess
ruralu
- Uploaded by
- elelinux_41
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 37
- Favorites
- 3
Grasshopper King
grasshopperking
Created by @autocorr All the rules of Chess apply except that the King's normal move is replace by that of a Grasshopper and that stalemate's are a loss for the stalemated player. In order to move or capture, the grasshopper king (shown as an inverted king) must jump over a piece and land on the square immediately beyond that piece. The king may jump orthogonally or diagonally.Note that because of the asymmetrical King movement it is possible for the Kings to give check and even checkmate to one another.
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 36
- Favorites
- 8
tetrarchy
tetrarchy
Created by @autocorr In this variant four pieces in the starting position are replaced with Tetrarchs. Tetrarchs flip between the move-set of a standard King or Queen when moved. All the rules of Chess apply except that: (1) there is no castling, (2) stalemate is a loss for the stalemated player, (3) a player wins if one of their Pawns reaches the final rank ("Pawn-mate"), and (4) a player loses if no Tetrarchs remain on the King side. Checks do not apply to the Tetrarchs.
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 20
- Favorites
- 3