Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
375 public variants
Makruk House
makhouse
Hybrid variant of makruk and crazyhouse
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 136
- Favorites
- 10
Cannon Pawn Empire Chess
cannon_pawn_empirechess
See https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/empire . The Empire against The Kingdom! Empire's pawns are replaced by Cannon Pawns. Soldiers do not promote. Cannon Pawns can promote to chess Queens only (as in Empire). Cannon Pawns move as a king OR they can hop over any adjacent piece to either land on a vacant square behind it (move) or if that landing square is occupied by an enemy piece, the cannon pawn will capture it by displacement. All else is as in Empire.
- Uploaded by
- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 18
- Favorites
- 2
Cannon Pawn Empire MirrorX
cannon_pawn_empire_mirrorx
See https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/empire . Pawns are replaced by Cannon Pawns. Soldiers do not promote. Cannon Pawns can promote to chess Queens only (as in Empire). Cannon Pawns move as a king OR they can hop over any adjacent piece to either land on a vacant square behind it (move) or if that landing square is occupied by an enemy piece, the cannon pawn will capture it by displacement.
- Uploaded by
- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 14
- Favorites
- 2
Cannon Pawn Orda Mirror
cannon_pawn_orda_mirror
See: https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/ordamirror . The Hordes feature Cannon Pawns instead of regular pawns. Cannon Pawns can promote to chess Falcons only (as in Orda Mirror). Cannon Pawns move as a king OR they can hop over any adjacent piece to either land on a vacant square behind it (move) or if that landing square is occupied by an enemy piece, the cannon pawn will capture it by displacement. The Cannon Pawns start on rank 7 (not 6). All else is as in Orda Mirror, including Win by Checkmate or Campmate as in Orda Mirror.
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- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 6
- Favorites
- 1
Cannon Pawn Orda
cannon_pawn_orda
See: https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/orda The Horde against the Kingdom. The Horde features Cannon Pawns instead of regular pawns. Cannon Pawns move as a king OR they can hop over any adjacent piece to either land on a vacant square behind it (move) or if that landing square is occupied by an enemy piece, the cannon pawn will capture it by displacement. The Cannon Pawns start on rank 7 (not 6). All else is as in Orda, including promotions (both pawn types can promote) and castling allowed to the FIDE Chess army. Win by Checkmate or Campmate as in Orda.
- Uploaded by
- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 8
- Favorites
- 2
Khans MirrorX
khansmirrorx
see https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/khans . Khans MirrorX is between mirror two Khans armies. Gold being "black" goes second, Silver pieces move first. Unlike Khans, the Scouts can promote to more than just Khatun. Upon reaching the last rank scouts promote to: Lancer, Kheshig, Archer or Khatun. Just like Khans, you can win by checkmate or by campmate. Stalemate is a loss for the side that can't move.
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- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 17
- Favorites
- 4
Antihouse
aaantihouse
10x10 Two Knights Game
deckcheckreqchess7
Atomic makruk
atomicmakruk
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- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 83
- 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.
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- Chesstester
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 31
- Favorites
- 4
Touchdown
endzoned
Harbranj v0
harbranj7
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
- 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.
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- SchachLinus
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 169
- 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..
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 51
- Favorites
- 6
Maze Hills
mzerace
Maze war hills
mazeflanks
Full army maze game..
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 12 × 10
- Games
- 21
- Favorites
- 4
Enneachess
enneachess_v2
A 9x9 variant of chess where the white side has a general (centaur) and the black side has an archbishop.
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- CouchTomato87
- Board
- 9 × 9
- Games
- 10
- Favorites
- 4
Opposition
opp