Community variants
Browse public user-defined variants. They stay outside the regular variant catalog and are always casual/unrated.
193 public variants
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
- 18
Potent Knight Chess
potent-knight
Knights are enhanced with a non-capturing diagonal step, allowing a pair to force mate.
- Uploaded by
- RubixOne
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 15
Chess vs Tic-Tac-Toe
chessvsttt2
Black must align 4 to win. This variant has a massive advantage for Black and can be used as a challenge to beat Fairy-Stockfish
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 207
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
- 21
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
- 9
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
- 18
BasementDwellerChess
goonchess
A highly popular variant only meant to be played by people of culture, and taste.. Features getting The Piece to the Final Destination.. Know the priority.
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 32
Hailstorm-chess
khonhill
Promote to a knight and capture opponent's queen to win
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 13
Gardener minichess
gardner1
Classic Gardner Minichess played on a compact 5×5 board. Small board, fast games, and pure tactical chess.
- Uploaded by
- Hailstorm
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Games
- 72
Rush for the Hills
rushfrthehills
Promote a knight and get to the Hills!!
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- Hailstorm
- Board
- 8 × 10
- Games
- 12
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
- 113
Vertical breakthrough
verticalbreakthrough
Chess but the tactics are vertical !
- Uploaded by
- Rom142857
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Games
- 36
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
- 47
Communist chess
communist_vs_capitalist