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Variants World is a system for submitting chess variants. Many popular ones are on Chess.com because of that website. I create variants sometimes, and I want to know - what is the purpose of the 24 hour rule for testing games? If you are the CGA reading this, then please tell me.

Credits to @2bhnst my the idea https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/custom-position-stereotypes  Since I was not in this community as long, some of these will be made up, either since the game i saw it in is extremely old, or could not find a real example. 1.  Forced Checkmate Yes. i saw this today. 2. This I saw this bishop knight mate practice 3 times. Not saying it's bad, I understand them unlike the next one... 3. Some random revision to chess that's clear wasn't playtested (Includes revisions to Gothic chess) what is this thing 4. Queen/Amazon/Rook SPAM 5. A worse 'revision' of an existing variant Don't. 6. Whatever this is this CAN be fun if done right, but I have only seen ones done wrong. 7. Ones you cannot tell if it is a joke or not (it was but now it isnt also this is mine i cant find examples) 8. CHAOS Don't get it? CRAZYHOUSE IS ON 9. Futered 4pc varint Usually obscure ones 10: THE IDIOTS 11: Someone who actually tries to make something good  Comment others I missed since I dont have much ideas right now

My piece is a Wildequeen. It combines Wildebeest and Queen. Exchange Value: 15 Can jump? only on knight or camel uses Standard format of it (my drawing is bad) This is how it moves on an 8x8 board ( I used a knight to represent it ) The yellow arrows are non-jumping moves. The blue arrows are jumping moves

we all know that 960 is only available when standard chess.but why should it only be standard 960? so a suggestion here:when 1 variant have a row of pawn on 2nd row and the 1st line of all is full of pieces,make 960 available to randomly change the pieces line.(2P chess) or,when a line or column is full of pawn,and full of pieces behind them,960 might also useful.

These suggestions may either help with variant creation, or be useful in games. I think this should be a thread for bot suggestions, though please stay on topic. Also be specific and unique! You should not suggest "attacker" or "defender" and other bot behaviors similar as there is no way to define them. Directional / F-Directional Similar to pusher/f-pusher, but always tries to place its pieces(including pawns) on the highest rank. So that would mean that if a queen could go to h10, but a knight can go to f9, it would choose the queen. Example: The bot would choose to move the queen to the square highlighted because it is the furthermost point of the board. However if a royal is in check, it would move the royal to the highest square possible. The futer version would play the best move that puts a piece on the furthermost point. If the bot cannot move further anymore in it's direction, then it would switch to move its pieces in the opposite direction. Then it repeats the process again. Strong Piece Futer Futer that has a preference to move the piece worth most points. Example:It would move its amazon because the amazon is worth most. It will always protect it's royal when in check! Weak Piece Futer Opposite to the strong piece futer. Self-Explanatory. Also, weak piece does not use pawns at first, uses the piece with the least value other than pawns. Only uses pawns if there are no pieces. It will always protect it's royal when in check!

One deficiency I noticed about the editor, is that you can make any piece royal but kings must always be royal, since there is no option for degrading a king to a mann, hence there's no way to create a deathmatch game which would be very fun. Also, it seems that there's no way to add more than one royal piece per side, unless that I haven't experimented enough with the fen editing part, this is straight forward in many fairy engines.

Adding Taboo,you cannot check even mate-in-1.the only way winning is stalement loss.So why not just combine Capture the king and Taboo into Racing Kings like before?

wof that are checky are bad beacause the creator only knows what piece is where. same with blind wofs.

In 4-player chess, a common strategy is to make sure you are perceived by other players neither as the main threat nor as an easy target. One way people accomplish this is by playing very defensively and at time even passively (e.g. see this). While I have nothing against playing defensively, I think it will be a good idea to discourage very passive play. Any idea to make a variant of 4 player chess wherein passive play is discouraged?Thank you.

(Screenshots above).Time setting of the game was reported wrong in the game review I got for the game https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/daily/751855983 .The game was daily and it was put as 3 min (bullet) game. Also, the overall judgement in the highlight of the game review was as if it was a blitz/bullet game: "Your speed won you the game", my opponent timed out, but the message seems to fit blitz/bullet/rapid rather than daily. The message could be a default one (since I don't find anything special about the game).

Guys combine chess 960 with horde what do yo think? Hmm?

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 ) Hello Custom Variants community! It's late as I'm writing this, but just wanted to get this out ahead of time since I've reorganized the tentative schedule for the coming year of 2025! There's a lot of information packed below so do read it if you're interested in how things will go this year, I promise it's worth your time (even if there's large blocks of scary paragraphs)! First on the agenda: so far, the plan is to have Platinum Variant arenas on (in Month/Day form) 3/28, 6/27, 9/26, and 12/26, with each arena representing a different quarter of the year. There's talk of making a change to trimesters instead, but so far this system should work and make sure the best variants are properly represented. Also: prizes might make an appearance?? 💎 Secondly, I've been looking at the feedback form responses, and we'll definitely try out some new stuff this year! I may start reaching out to some of y'all who provided usernames so the CGA team can get some more insights! If you're reading this before the new year, the form will still be open until then so definitely fill it out if you're interested. We're particularly concerned with the effectiveness of Golden Variant in helping variants in the long-term and not just over the course of a week or so. Next, there's been concern about the sudden acceptance of 3 NCVs in the past month or so that has queued all of them up for an All Week arena appearance. To make it so that we're not going to just have 3 out of the 5 slots in January be filled with All Week arenas in a row, I've spread them out 3 weeks apart from each other in the order that they were accepted. This is not the most ideal solution, but hopefully this will be to the benefit of all of them! (Please submit more WoFs it takes us forever to test NCVs 😢) Just to feature something more prominently, I'd also like to take this moment to congratulate NCV Tester @BN1208 on being promoted to CGA! We promise to get your role on the variants server soon enough so you can be assigned WoF scheduling duty 😈 Lastly, let's just get some basic stats and updates on variant testing currently: Dead piece render bug FIXED! 16 variants Under Review (UR) 11 variants reviewed in the last 7 days Oldest currently UR variant is https://variants.world/posts/796 No variants Pending Reply (PR) With all that out of the way, let's start going over the voting procedure for this month! (It will be very chaotic but bear with me on this one) In case you missed my hyperlink above... See the schedule here: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/2025-golden-variant-schedule This month's format: Five arenas, starting in January 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 (January 3) has been predetermined and will be an All Week arena of Sergeant's Checkers II (the oldest of the recently accepted NCVs) Week 2 (January 10) will be a Golden Variant arena of the winner of the StrawPoll Week 3 (January 17) will be a Golden Variant arena of 2nd place of the StrawPoll Week 4 (January 24) will be a Golden Variant arena of 3rd place of the StrawPoll Week 5 (January 31) has been predetermined and will be an All Week arena of Acheron (the second oldest of the recently accepted NCVs) The voting process: 1 StrawPoll The StrawPoll will not have any listed options unlike the ranked-choice voting traditionally used. Any variant that is NOT in Most Popular, 2P Featured, 4P Featured, 4P Giveaway (Antichess), or Common can be listed as a write-in option. (In other words, select variants from Extra, FFA, and Teams sections) Platinum Variants from 2024 are also ineligible for time being, as well as Acheron, Phantom Rooks, and Sergeant's Checkers II Each user can submit 3 selections, with each vote having equal weight. The top 3 variants in the write-in will be selected for Weeks 2, 3, and 4. The StrawPoll will close on January 8 at 4 PM PST (January 9 at 12 AM UTC) StrawPoll Link: https://strawpoll.com/LVyK2DexkZ0 Happy voting!

Variants World has been around for a while. After its release in February 2024 (I was still learning how to make variants then), we have seen some updates, such as a posts list option, and the addition of some 2023 submissions. VW still has a lot in store and the UI can be improved by much. So, the same way I start all my forums, here is my Variants World Suggestion 1. Sort By: Open VW and search my name. The top has an ID of 2, each going in ascending order. Now, search "accepted." The top ones are Phalanx and Triune Wasp, both of which are from 2023 and have submissions that we currently don't care about (that was not meant to offend anyone). Assume you're looking for a WoF submission from around September 2024 to recall the name. You can either 1) Scroll down until you find it, 2) Search "accepted" and scroll, or 3) Go through VVF and find it. How inconvenient, right? This nuisance can be fixed by adding the Sort option, allowing users to sort through which month they want to search.  Now assume you're just browsing accepted variants. I can guarantee you will find the declined variant "Fairy Placement!" which brings me to the next thing the Sort feature can do. Right now, searching "accepted" goes through everything on a submission's page: The title, the creator, the description, the verdict message, and comments. All of these are useful to search for, such as when trying to find a specific creator, trend/name, or decline reason. But seeing all of it at once seems redundant, especially when some people don't know how to use the "reply" feature (for example: search up my name and click on LobotomyDynamix. The only reason that submission shows up is because someone replied to my comment by typing out my name). The Sort feature can also filter what your search searches through. (Example: Sort it to only show submissions that have "shuffling" in the decline message.) In addition, the Sort feature can also sort through or sort out the variant review status, being Under Review, Accepted, Declined, Auto-Declined, Self-Declined, Bugged, and Pending Reply. Did you think I would stop being lazy and make a second suggestion? There's a reason why the title isn't plural.

I truly appreciate the interest and enthusiasm shown by all those who wanted to participate. Unfortunately, I do not have enough time to host this tournament, and therefore, it is cancelled. Even in the summer holidays, I still have a lot of work to do. I hope to host this tournament again when I have more time. Thank you for your understanding, and I apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Okay, who duplicated TWOF?

https://www.chess.com/game/live/130036193975

FEN4: R-0,1,0,1-1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-0,0,0,0-0-{'wb':true,'dim':'6x6'}-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,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,yR,yN,yQ,yK,yN,yR,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,6,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,6,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,x,x,x,x/x,x,x,x,rR,rN,rQ,rK,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,x/x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x Testing games: Game 1: Mityeume https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75002296 Game 2: Mityeume https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75002441 Game 3: Charles-Baird5 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75002495 Game 4: FriendDelay1593 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75002956 Game 5: SharanPranav https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75003179 Game 6: Red_Kangaroos https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75003546 Game 7: Nat_Sem https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75003802 Game 8: schicksall https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75004145 Game 9: EdoardoLeopardo https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75004366 Game 10: Ahmed171115 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/75004564

Greetings!There is still many bugs in either playing variants on chess.com or Variants World.Rather than seeing lot of forum about bugs,i thought there might be a post only for reporting bugs. Here,you can putting bugs and suggestions,and i wish CGAs will see it and feedback with them.Have a good time playing variant chess with extra funny things and no bugs!

Pushing Pawns: Berolina and regular pawn can move one way and capture the other. What if they could always move and they would push the other pieces diagonally backwards or straight backwards respectively when they could not capture. If there is another piece or a brick behind it does not work. If there is the edge of the board or a void square then then piece dies when it moves there. It does not work with 2 space moves from the home rank or torpedo. I think this could be a really cool variant on similar lines to sideways pawns and torpedo.

https://variants.world/posts/1135