Variants Tier List, 2 Years Later

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Original 2021 Post: Variants Tier List (Full Edition) - Chess.com

List of NCVs: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/all-ncvs-on-the-variants-server


Well, this was certainly interesting to make... given I'm a CGA now and have had a lot more experience with all sorts of variants happy; I won't be including standard variants, but in this list I'll definitely include historical variants (not just NCVs), and basically everything else

And to be clear, this is just my opinion on how much fun I have with these variants, and this is by all means not a judgement of necessarily how well made they are...


2 Player Variants

S

Seirawan Chess

Gothic Chess

Tag Team

A

XXL Chess

Paradigm Chess30

Minihouse

The X of Tricks

B

Chaturanga

Ashtandrez

Amazon Jungle

Behind the Mirror

C

Horde

Racing Kings

Thermoplyae

Mini Forest

Rookmate

Stone Gravitation

Villagers Chess

D

Courier Chess

Blackletter Chess

Caught in a Snag

Counterturn

Emperor's Tomb

Infiltration Danger

Rubicon

Sergeant's Checkers

Trapped Queens

Villagers Chess II

Crazy Cavalier


4 Player Variants

S

Labyrinth 82

Arena of Legends

Chaturdrez

A

War for Throne

Chaturaji

Collateral Worlds

Surprise Attack

B

Gustav's Box

Blind Box

Find the Path

Best Friends Forever

Color Blinds

The Eyes of Horus

C

Underground War

Battle of Castles

Behind the Scenes

Glass Labyrinth

Sergeants Laboratory

The Four Horsemen

The Hive

Throne War Mini

Castle on a Hill

Euler's Game

Together

Warp Speed

D

King Safety

Grasshopper Arena

Diamond Wall

Antitower

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BlindGold

Phalanx

The Triune Wasp

Unique

Unison

King Safety

Detour

Golden Ratio

Inferno

Salvation Bastions

Storming the Castle

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