Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
375 public variants
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
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- Fairy-Stockfish
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- 8 × 8
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- 15
- Favorites
- 8
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: chess.com
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- Fairy-Stockfish
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- 8 × 8
- Games
- 45
- Favorites
- 5
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
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- 8 × 8
- Games
- 38
- Favorites
- 2
Maharajah and the Sepoys
maharajah
Pseudoqueen
asymmetrical_queens
Stuck
hardstuck
Pacifist
pacifist_king
Pwned
pwned
Rookie
royal_rook
TurnedTables
crazydoubled
Simple Snails vs Fabulous FIDEs
simple_snails_vs_fabulous_fides
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- XMaxNas60rX
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 3
Dragons vs Chess
dragons_vs_chess
Who wins Dragons or the Hunters? chess vs 4 Dragons
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- rooks-pawn
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- 8 × 8
- Games
- 56
- Favorites
- 3
Rookback chess
rookback2
Every piece (including pawns) can only move backwards as a rook.
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- Rom142857
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- 8 × 8
- Games
- 35
- Favorites
- 2
Crazy Party
crazy_party_
All pieces move like a king, except for the queen, which moves only like a king. Pawns promote to a "queen." Also there are drops.
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- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 9
- Favorites
- 2
Crowned
crown
Doppelganger
doppelganger
Mini-Cabalbanca
capablanca_small_
In this setup, rooks are replaced by the Archbishop and Chancellor, with pawns promoting to any of these active pieces (except a rook). You can castle with both Archbishop and Chancellor.
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- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 18
- Favorites
- 2
Atomic horde
atomic_horde
Atomic chess, but white have got 3 row of pawns and king against classic army.
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- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 74
- Favorites
- 5
Atomic party
atomic_party_
All pieces move like a king, except for the queen, which moves only like a king. Pawns promote to a "queen." Also there are explosions.
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- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 93
- Favorites
- 3
Legan Chess