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Copy this, put it in your custom position and get a friend to play with you! Kings and Queens have swapped positions on the board. Link to the custom position editor: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/new-position-workshop-testing-thread R-0,1,0,1-0,1,0,1-0,1,0,1-0,0,0,0-0-{'pawnBaseRank':5,'wb':true,'dim':'8x8'}-x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,yR,yN,yB,rQ,rK,yB,yN,yR,x,x,x/x,x,x,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,x,x,x/x,x,x,8,x,x,x/x,x,x,8,x,x,x/x,x,x,8,x,x,x/x,x,x,8,x,x,x/x,x,x,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,x,x,x/x,x,x,rR,rN,rB,yQ,yK,rB,rN,rR,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x

In this variant, the board would be set up normally. However, it randomly selects a piece that needs to be checkmated in order to win the game. Only you know which piece is the royal one. 

pawns and kings are swapped.also to win you have to capture the bishop. also knight move randomly. and the pawn can move anywhere and cannot check or checkmate. also on move 50 the Amazon captures every piece. and the game is over.

Just an idea. Here are the rules: 1. every turn, you spin a spinner. whatever piece it lands on, you move. 2. on the first turn, you can play any move. then the spinner takes effect. 3. if a pawn gets to the other side of the board, it must be promoted to a king. Please post other pieces for this variant idea!

Hi guys,Today I'm here to give you all some interesting facts about the (infamous) pocket chess challenge. This is a user created challenge created in January that till date has over 50 submissions.Dlsclaimer: This may or may not be a shameless self promotionAnyways, let's start off with... 1.Pocket Chess- The BeginningThis link should give you some idea on what it is, but don't worry, I'll explain it here anyways. The Pocket Chess Challenge was started on January 1st by me (@vishthefish771) and @imchesspro0930. Actually, the original intention of the challenge was just to group his 3 newest variants in a series, which we called Pocket Chess, as in chess that fits in your pocket (btw, the name was his idea).  The rules of the challenge are simple enough.1.It has to be on a 6x6 board2.It must use 4pc themes I will also admit that a lot of success of the challenge came about because the rules are relatively simple and are a great starting point for creating variants if you're low on ideas (at least, that's how it's felt for me) 2.Pocket Chess- The Rip (Offs)So, now we travel forward by around 3 weeks in time... Also known as what I like to call, The Golden Age of Pocket Chess! Around this time, the challenge had received a boom in submissions. It was quickly becoming evident that The Pocket Chess Challenge was a success story. I told you it's gonna be shameless Until... THE RIP-OFFS!!! I think we all know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about forums like this one, this one, this one and even this one. See, I'm not like targeting anyone. As a matter of fact, these challenges are quite creative. But I'll be honest, if I see another rip-off challenge... well, this meme sums it up pretty well. 3.Pocket Chess- The RiseWith all these submissions pouring in, it was pretty much guranteed that more Beehives were to follow. Soon after, @imchesspro0930 (yes him again) created his first ever submission on a pocket chess board, making it the second ever accepted Pocket Chess Submissions! Soon to come were the Forsaken City, Broker, Doubles, Obsidian Pinnacle and all the rest. Till date, we have a total of 8 accepted Pocket Chess variants, which gives you around a 15% chance of getting an acception whiloe submitting one. (Interesting Fact: Recently on notes someone mentioned that the current acceptance rate of variants is 10%, so you technically have a higher chance of acception if you submit a pocket chess. However, because more submissions aren't pocket chess, it's probably best to take this with a grain of salt.) And there we go, folks! I'll just put some stats for this interested about them,(As of 17/4/2025)Acceptions: 8Declinations: 50Total Variants: 58Most Prolific Creator: @Chye3mc, with 9 submissionsMost Successful Creator: @imchesspro0930, with 3 acceptionsBest Creator: @VishTheFish771, because he's cool like that (Just kidding)Total Number of Rip-Off Challnges: 14Longest Time Under Review Variant: Delicate Giant, @nyutixbrotherMost Liked Variant: You Suck by @Chye3mcFastest Accepted Variant: Beehive by @imchesspro0930 (This is not confirmed fact, feel free to correct me on it)  Aaaaaannnnnddddd that's really the end of the article!Thanks for reading all the way here!Cya!(I added too many exclamation marks)

https://www.chess.com/bundles/web/images/variants/wazir.svg as example (change the name to change the piece, replace a space with "_")

Put them

I wonder... I really do... Variant called "Royal Barracks?" How does it sound? I NEED ANSWERS!!!

I have an idea of a variant that is chess but is battleship 

speaks itself

Someone can play 20+ games (against 10 players, 2 each or 2 players, 10 each) and learn from them, seeing what should (or shouldn’t) be played, who knows? Maybe new openings can be invented (and named) in the variants!!

2-player game 2   2 Zombies. Blue: Random moves with checking preference. Green: Random moves with checking preference.   Custom position   4+ 4-Check   Crazyhouse   King of the Hill   Torpedo   Capture the King   The stalemated player receives the points   +40 40-point checkmate   12th=   Pawns promote to a king on the 12th rank                 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80776009/0/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775974/33/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775939/40/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775924/39/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775909/37/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775877/3/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775775/44/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775705/32/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775694/40/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775676/44/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775663/32/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775641/40/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/80775502/40/1 I'm trying to figure out how to make the player more easily capture the Wazir. If anyone has any suggestions or is available to playtest, feel free to let me know.  

when a piece get`s captured it turns into a fire and a piece can`t go on it

lol funny post because why not. (It’s a joke post guys) Today I’m imagining CVC was Geometry Dash and making a whole bunch of analogies. (I’m too lazy to write a proper intro, let’s get into it.) What would these be in GD? Playing a variant game: Playing a level Submitting a variant: Playing a demon Declined Variant: Failing a demon (Doesn’t everyone do this at least 2000 times) Accepted variant: Beating a demon (Really impossible) CGAs: Robtop Playing Villager’s Chess: Probably Stereo Madness Playing Explosive Magic: An annoying daily level Attempting to play any FFA that is not in most popular: “You need 172738 diamonds to play this!” Playing a Most Popular variant: playing literally any insane/hard level (Maybe Blast Processing is Atomic? Oooh, Raji is probably Clutterfunk. 4pc could be Theory of Everything? This is too fun) Reaching top 5 in a leaderboard: You unlocked Clubstep! (Ok this analogy has stopped making sense…) Becoming top 1 in a leaderboard: You beat Clubstep! (Forget that Clubstep is a demon for a sec..) WHO WOULD THESE PEOPLE BE IN GD? (tell me how accurate I was!) @Chye3mc :The player who hacks every level and then gets banned by Robtop @2bhnst :The humble guy who has beaten every single level @imchesspro0930 :Attempts a level 96 times and somehow beats 6 levels in a row @Nyutixbrother :The guy who’s been stuck on the same demon (Golden Rain) @Wolyn :WHY IS HE SO SWEATY @ChessmasterGS :Robtop himself @Qilp :The actual coder of GD @KingsSacrificingGotta :Has attempted 5 levels 100 times each @Joowon2015 : Pretty darn sweaty except when it comes to Demons @VishTheFish771 :Noob who beat a demon because he sat on his iPad in the bus. (The Ultimate Buttdial) @Jkcheesechess :Troll who beats level 1 minute faster than possible Give me suggestions in the comments!

This post references people with 2 or more variants in game, or has 2 or more submissions in the past 2 months. This post is for fun, please don't take anything written here seriously. qilp: That's why he's the goat, THE GOAT! Cyprian2206, His variants sound appealing, but are unfun.  bsrti: did he wither away so suddenly? I would love to see more of his creations. RALRAL3333: cmon, can't you pls make a variant involving fairies? Arseny_Vasily: I bet both don't meet the modern standards. stupnik_2_0: I never played any of his 5 creations. It looks fun tho martinaxo: Looks unappealing, but really fun. josephruhf: many people dislike his creations, but holy they are good. Joshua_Allen: SO, AMAZON FOREST AND TOGETHER WAS MADE BY THE SAME AUTHOR? 2bhnst: ok. by his speed I bet half of the extras will be his creations chye3mc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBHcEXU493M  coolthing: variants that are fun the first time u play but gets boring. Automaton_Dragon: the author of 2 variants I never saw even a seek on. Now the submitters. asthebird: Let's see how long serendipity takes to curate. 2bhnst: yo can you guys play more of his stuff? themostfunkid: I would rather go to a casino then to play his creations chye3mc: can you please please please put some effort in your products? megathief: OH MY PLALANX CAN YOU NOT BASE STUFF OFF XIANGQI NTOS8: I think he's megathief's cousin. he's shogi. imchesspro0930: I wonder who that is, why is his variants getting increasingly worse? NyutixBrother: I see why jack supported his projects allanzixi2077: Alright, let's determine which variant to inspire today. Lemme spin the wheel: Oh, together! Let's make a sequel to that! Nikimatke12: USE UNORTHODOX PIECES, AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK. VishTheFish: The king of making variants that are red on the chart.

rules:2nd=BHNSTox2, ghostBoard, h=Hawk, e=elephaNt, Sideways, Time control = 222.222/222 2 Best-Hug NoteS, read This, please:1) read the uppercase letters.2) Be very careful wHeN you or Someone else checks the daTe. position: games: game 1 game 2 - - ok, time to get banned now.

Rules: Set up a game with 2 Futers or Patzers and two people. Two teams. The Futers (or Patzers, or Futer and Patzer) on one team, players on the other. 4 player.

The King can move one, two and three squares for the short castle and one, two, three even four squares for the long castle. The Rook must always follow beside the King.

Good news: https://variants.world/posts/20, the post that has been bugged for over a year, now seems to be working properly! Previously, when going to the testing game, it was not possible to replay the game because there were some issues with the zombies. However, these bugs now seem to be fixed, due to the recent server updates! We look forward to reviewing the variant as soon as we can.   … Update: Upon testing, the game did not work. So, the actual bug is not fixed.

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