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How to become an excellent chess variant creator? (Although I may not be qualified, I can still give some advice for newcomers to this club.) Here are the steps to becoming a creator: 1. Understand and adapt to the basic variant rules by playing and testing them. 2. Read all useful forums related to creating chess variants before asking questions. I've noticed that some new creators ask questions or even create variants before reading these, and if you do this, your questions and variants may be bad or even a bit stupid. (sorry) 3. Play custom variants. You can find many accepted NCVs and WOFs on variants.world, where you can play them. You need to find a sense of acceptance in the variants and try to incorporate that feeling into your own variant. 4. Try to create a chess variant. You should value your variant and not treat it lightly. You can post it in the Position Workshop and listen to the feedback from others. (testing before you post it) (also, add players from the custom community as friends as there are few other people you can realistically test your creations with.)   For the choice of this variant, I recommend selecting some variant types that are very common on variants.world, such as POCKET CHESS. (this is for practice and only for practice, avoid it after this!) 5. After careful consideration, if you are sure that the variant is excellent, you can submit it to variants.world. If you have completed the above steps, you are already a qualified variant creator! But how do you become an excellent creator? Here is my advice. 1. Use the Position Workshop. Don't submit your variants without careful thought (until you are very experienced). 2. Take inspiration from life. Try out some unique ideas and refine them, and you are likely to come up with a good variant. 3. Take your variants seriously!! Test more, think more, and try new ideas for your variant. (if you think it's bad, then don't submit it, try to improve it or even give up it.) 4. Pay attention to your variants and other good ones, and learn from their strengths and weaknesses.5. be prepared to revise a declined submission, and use is as an opportunity to improve your idea although sometimes it's better to move on. That's all I have to say. Welcome to all variant creators! You can also complement it if you have other ideas. www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/custom-variants-club-directory variants.world https://www.chess.com/variants/lobby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v3mLxd2FfALMAO

except variants.world/locked?

Guys, I have an idea for harry potter, chess, how it that

Note:this is NOT a 2025 challenge. It's only for someone who really likes chess or wonders have something to learn ot to read in a chess game. As you see,Ode of Mulan(木兰辞) had been submitted to VW.Why not doing something of books without read,review and recite them again and again?Learn them in chess! To achieve the milestone,the chess variants should have a meaning,refer to a good book or something,and show them into chess. Here's the variants now: Variant Name Creator Status Ode of Mulan(木兰辞）(or 刮目相看...I wanna change it but how do i translate that) KingsSacGotta Declined Jianjia(蒹葭)Wrong,dumb oneplz CGA rename it to a space to load the name KingsSacGotta Declined(absolutely) Jianjia(re-posted) KingsSacGotta Declined

giveaway + any capture it seems pretty weird  tell me what you think

So there's this variant/gamerule which one of my friends introduced to me over the board and it was pretty fun but I have no idea what its called or if its even a thing and cant find it anywhere. Its a bit like crazyhouse where if you take your opponents piece, you get to place it back on the board (immediately, doesnt cost a turn to place back), but instead of that piece becoming your piece it remains your opponents piece but can just be placed anywhere on the board(with some restrictions . pawns cant go on back rank). So if you sack your queen you still keep your queen if it gets captured just that your opponent can put it in the worst possible position for you. The games usually end up with 'jails' where you put your opponents captured pieces, such as in the corner blocked by other pieces and pawns and its more about positional play rather than tactics. I think its pretty fun although the games can last quite long, although this could probably be helped with rules like kings cant capture or having a position with quite isolated royals. anyway itd be pretty cool if anyone knew what its called or if its even a variant, and itd be extra cool if it got added as a gamerule <: also hopefully this isnt breaking any rules its my first topic post thing

If you can only make NCV/WOF , what will you choose? you can choose one and give the reason here.

I tried it, it sucks.

  I've been trying to make variants lately. And it's so infurating that there are many features not available that I need. Such as, Bigger board sizes. We are currently limited to 14x14-and it sometimes it feels tiny. And it is annoying. Koth squares. Why can't we have Koth squares that only apply to a certain color? More players. I don't think I have to explain this one. Different lives. Right now both checks have to be the same.  Why? Atomic range. Should'nt we be able to control the radius of atomic? Zombies. Like, in stories, zombies seek shelter in the morning. So, why not have a "timer" for zombies? So that for a certain period of time zombies are active and another period of time they just disappear? That's all I can think of for now. Thx for reading!

Hi fellow creatives. I really need some help! Despite the time I've spent in this club, I still don't truly understand what Wheel of Fortune is. Can someone please enlighten me? It would be very much appreciated - thank you! Keep Chessing & Stay Brainy!

Hey @grable Please don't get mad about this. I need to say some things that a lot of people want to say. I've noticed recently that every time the community comments on a new position you delete lots of comments that apparently have "nothing to do with the conversation." However, this is not necessarily true. Sometimes me and other people will say "hey, that looks cool," or "nice game!" I don't see why this needs to be deleted. We are telling people that they did a good job and we are interested in playing. We're trying to encourage people and be uplifting, why does it need to be deleted? People like receiving compliments and an empty forum on a custom position they make will make them sad and feel like nobody cares about them. We're just trying to show support...

we know

i tried posting,and that i found if teams(RBYG) and board size are the same,it counted as a "similar version",even lots of things inside were not.

Hello custom variant people, do you have a valentine? I hope so, but if you not, I propose something that could possibly cure your boredom with a special WoF queue suggestion! I have 2 positions in mind, although the second one is more of a backup. Here are the 2 positions. https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75995423/55/4 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/76001924/33/1  First one is on the shape of a heart, and the second one's piece pallete spells "Lovebirds" on fen notation. I think this special arena would be very cool for an internationally celebrated event. I would be happy if this actually became a 1-day queue, because cmon, I should not be the only one here without a valentine... right...?

Duck Inc. Challenge Typically chess but the royal is duck. The rules for joining this challenge are: 1. Must have royal duck for each player. 2. No giveaway or duck chess. 3. Duck should be well protected but not too well protected. 4. If using regicide recommended to also use n-check. 5. Any number of players, any theme, zombies allowed. To get your variant on this challenge you only have to respect the rules and possibly request adding it. If you don't want your variant to be here, tell me and I'll remove it. 1. DucKing - by me 2. Old version of DucKing - still by me 3. Ducking(revised) - by hutianmin

every times we want to placing a piece, and the game will been stopped. I reset the seirawan and remove the crazyhouse, but it dosen't work. If we don't placing piece, the game continue. the rules are spell,bare piece,crazywan,KOTH,regicide,sideways. at the start there are no royal, and it has royal when you promote. Where is the wrong or it's just a bug?

why can't you place ducks or bricks in setup mode? the coms can do it

Post from the vote in December: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/vote-for-decembers-golden-variants Not sure on what some of the terms in this post mean? Have any other questions? See any typos? Feel free to ask and comment below! (Scroll down to the bold text if you want to know how to vote without reading my entire message 😀) (Yes I am using 😀 instead of now lol) Hello Custom Variants Community! Getting this post out a bit later in the month than I expected, but I looked through the form responses again and was thinking of some things that could be done differently this year, so definitely expect some experimenting coming in maybe 1-2 months! Rest assured, these will (hopefully!) be good changes since there have been minor complaints that voting has gotten more boring... Something that is definitely set in stone luckily is that the Platinum Variant Q1 (Quarter 1) will be selected next month, with the top 5 performing variants (based on arena activity) from the first 12 weeks advancing to the vote. This time around we have a lot of variants from both the newly added and the older variety, so it'll be interesting to see. To address some concerns about the variant review process, give some updates, and to feature monthly stats, here are some bullet points that you can enjoy... There are currently 32 variants that are Under Review (UR). 18 (56.25%) of those variants are NCVs, while 14 (43.75%) are WoFs. The oldest post was made in November 7, 2024: https://variants.world/posts/805 Only 4 posts are over a month old, and 14 posts were made in the last week. 8 variants finished review by CGAs and had a verdict submitted after the last weekend testing session. No variants are currently Pending Reply (PR). Minihouse has been removed from the Extra section and moved to the Featured 2P section (this has been in effect for around a month now but consider this official confirmation) @BN1208 now has his CGA badge and will be sent on WoF arena scheduling duty Although there's a lot more variants that are Under Review currently, the CGAs and the NCV Testers will still be dedicated to actively reviewing all of your submissions! Special thanks to the creators of the Pocket Chess Challenge for reviving the WoF category after it was seemingly abandoned 😀 With that out of the way, let's get into this month's vote! See the full 2025 schedule as it is updated here: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/2025-golden-variant-schedule This month's format: Four arenas, starting in February at 4 PM PST on Fridays (12 AM UTC on Saturdays) "Regular" Golden Variant arenas will be 72 hours long "All Week" Golden Variant arenas will be 168 hours (1 week) long What you're voting for: Week 1 (February 7) will be a Golden Variant arena of the winner of the Extra StrawPoll Week 2 (February 14) will be a Golden Variant arena of the runner-up of the Extra StrawPoll Week 3 (February 21) will be a Golden Variant arena of the winner of the Teams SP StrawPoll Week 4 (February 28) has been predetermined and will be an All Week arena of Phantom Rooks (the most recently accepted NCV) The voting process: 2 Golden Variant StrawPolls (1 for the Extra category, 1 for the Teams section) 5 variants for Teams vote, choices predetermined by the CGAs 10 variants for Extra vote, choices predetermined by the CGAs Ranked-choice voting (as defined by StrawPoll) Each StrawPoll will have 1 winner (calculated using StrawPoll's ranked-choice vote system), and will be selected and scheduled as described above The polls will close on February 1 at 4 PM PST (February 2 at 12 AM UTC) StrawPoll Links: Teams Self-Partner: https://strawpoll.com/QrgewdNpRyp Extra (2P): https://strawpoll.com/wAg3Q8eKdy8 Happy voting!