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Community variants

Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.

375 public variants

Empire MirrorX

empiremirrorx

See https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/empire

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sagig72
Board
8 × 8
Games
73
Favorites
7

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Spartan MirrorX

spartanmirrorx

See https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/spartan

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gbtami
Board
8 × 8
Games
81
Favorites
12

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ThatRoyal

queenforaking
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
15
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1

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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.

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Chesstester
Board
10 × 8
Games
76
Favorites
3

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Amazon for Queen-2B Variant

amazonchess_v2b

Amazon for a Queen

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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
69
Favorites
3

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ShiftedLeft

itstrulyshiftedleft
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
10
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1

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Amazon for Queen

amazonchess

Amazon for a Queen

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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
41
Favorites
3

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ItsOver

ultimatepiecechess
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
96
Favorites
3

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NightMare

allknightnightmare
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
15
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1

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Ches

badchess
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
9
Favorites
0

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Forwardly

onlyforwardly
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
27
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1

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Argess

argess

I didn't invent this variant! See https://www.chessvariants.com/diffsetup.dir/argess.html. Note that this version is not guaranteed to be completely accurate to the rules given on chessvariants.com, but I believe the rules are essentially correctly represented as of the time of writing. The configuration code is from https://github.com/fairy-stockfish/Fairy-Stockfish/blob/master/src/variants.ini, where it is given as an example.

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PraseodymiumSpike
Board
8 × 8
Games
27
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2

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Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.

References: Wikipedia

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Fairy-Stockfish
Board
12 × 8
Games
68
Favorites
6

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Reformed Courier

reformedcourier

Reformed Courier-Spiel is a revised form of the Medieval Chess game Courier-Spiel. This version is a modern adaption by Clement Begnis which itself adapts H. G. Albers modernized rules from 1821. Detailed rules can be found on https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/reformedcourier-spiel and Begnis's http://clement.begnis.free.fr website. Note that the King castles to the C and K files and that three new pieces are added: Archer, Champion, and Paladin. The historical Courier moves as a modern Bishop, and to stay true to the original spirit of the game, it is shown by a wedge-shaped piece and not as the modern Bishop.

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gbtami
Board
12 × 8
Games
31
Favorites
5

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Synohorde (fixed)

syno_horde_drop
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Videocatter
Board
8 × 8
Games
15
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4

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Syno-horde

synohorde
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Videocatter
Board
8 × 8
Games
14
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1

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S-chess++

seirawanplusplus

S-chess extension with 3 gatable pieces per side, Hawk = B+N, Elephant = R + N, Jaguar = K+N

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e-pluszak
Board
8 × 8
Games
74
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7

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Trebuchet Chess

trebuchetchess

Bishops are replaced with the trebuchet which can move like a king as well as a bishop.

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xxx
Board
8 × 8
Games
11
Favorites
1

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Zealot

zealotchess4
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
8
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2

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Zealot Odds vB

zealotchess6
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King_Keeg
Board
8 × 8
Games
2
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0

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