Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
192 public variants
Harbranj
harbranj
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
- 19
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
- 11
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
- 100
Absolute Chess
allwhitepromote
Gothamchess
gothamchess
16 Manns vs Chess Army
manns_horde_
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 28
Royal Party
royal_party_
All pieces move like a king, except for the queen, which moves only like a king. Pawns promote to a "queen."
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- Videocatter
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 40
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
- 32
Maze Hills
mzerace
Maze war hills
mazeflanks
Way-558
way558_v1
This game is an expanded tic-tac-toe on an 8x8 board. Players drop their pawns (p) onto the board from a reserve. These pieces only move two squares orthogonally or diagonally, or one square in any direction, without capturing. The winner connects 5 pieces in a line. 0.0 depth 20.
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- alvr634
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 13
Way-445
way445_v1
This game is an expanded tic-tac-toe on a 5x5 board. Players drop their pawns (p) onto the board from a reserve. These pieces only move two squares orthogonally or diagonally, or one square in any direction, without capturing. The winner connects 4 pieces in a line. 0.0 depth 30.
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- alvr634
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Games
- 13
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
- 4
Opposition
opp
Empire MirrorX
empiremirrorx
See https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/empire
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- sagig72
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 24
Spartan MirrorX
spartanmirrorx
See https://blog.silverview.buzz/variants/spartan
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- gbtami
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 19
ThatRoyal
queenforaking
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
- 53
Amazon for Queen-2B Variant
amazonchess_v2b
ShiftedLeft
itstrulyshiftedleft