Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
375 public variants
Crazy Racing Kings
crazyracingkings
A Racing Kings variant where captured pieces go into your pocket and can be dropped back onto the board, combining Racing Kings and Crazyhouse.
- Uploaded by
- MIMOGR
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 78
- Favorites
- 4
Cannon Seirawan
elephant-cannon-seirawan
Created by EmyViv in May 2026. Similar to Seirawan Chess (also known as S-Chess or SHARPER Chess), with a slightly different starting board, and a gateable Cannon instead of a Hawk. The Elephant moves as in S-Chess, with the combined movement of a rook and knight. The Cannon moves as in Xiangqi; it can move without capturing as a rook, but must jump over another piece to capture the piece that it lands on. Cannons are placed on d1 and d8, and Queens start in hand.
- Uploaded by
- EmyViv
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 18
- Favorites
- 1
Hopper
pawngrasshopper
Zealot Odds
zealotchess5
Yyalllow
yyallowchess
Sentry
sentrychess5
Regularchess
stalechess
SuperWhite
superwhitechess
All Promote v2
allpromote_v2
Whale Shogi
whaleshogi
A 6x6 Shogi variant designed by Wayne Schmittberger. In Whale Shogi players have a very weak piece (the Porpoise) that if captured gives the capturing player the strongest piece of the game in hand: the Killer Whale. Detailed rules are available on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shogi In this modified version, Dolphins (pawns) promote on the last rank and gain the ability to move and capture diagonally backwards.
- Uploaded by
- gbtami
- Board
- 6 × 6
- Games
- 34
- Favorites
- 4
Saharian Chess
saharian_chess
10x10 Chess featuring Camels and Cannons. Pawns promote at last ranks. The king moves two steps when castling king-side, and three steps when castling queenside.
- Uploaded by
- sagig72
- Board
- 10 × 10
- Games
- 36
- Favorites
- 3
Wojtek chess
wojtek-chess
Backward capture pawns
backwards_capture_pawns
Pawns capture one square diagonally in any direction including backwards, make non-capture moves like in ordinary chess. Pawn can always double step from first and second rank regardless how they got there, pawn on 7th rank can capture en passant backwards. Promoting once reaching 8th rank is optional, it is allowed to keep a pawn unpromoted
- Uploaded by
- e-pluszak
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 13
- Favorites
- 4
Rage Bait Chess
goon_engine_eval
Pieces can promote on last rank to Bouncy Knight and get win on enemy camp square queen to win.
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 23
- Favorites
- 4
Super Tic-tac-toe
tictactoe5
Tic tac Toe on a massive 5x5 board. Connect 4 in any direction to win...
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Games
- 134
- Favorites
- 8
Chess 5x5
chess_5x5
Cannon Pawn Chess
cannon_pawn_chess
Cannon Pawn Chess replaces the pawns with cannon pawns. All else is as in Chess (castling, promotions) other than there is no en-passant capture. 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
- 57
- Favorites
- 3
Communist chess
communist_vs_capitalist
Rush for the Hills v2
rushforhills
Promote a knight and get to the Hills!
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 10
- Games
- 23
- Favorites
- 4
Janus ChessFairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References: Wikipedia
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- Fairy-Stockfish
- Board
- 10 × 8
- Games
- 11
- Favorites
- 5