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This is a new mini position. Pawns promote to duck; game is finished when king is captured.

Landmine chess would be played on a normal chess board, with all the pieces and same setup of regular chess. However, in the middle of the board (the rectangle a3 to h6), there would be a series of  landmines. The players wouldn’t know where the landmines are though, and the mines can only be detonated once. Once the mine is detonated, an ❌ symbol would appear on the square that the mine was detonated on, and that square would be free to use with no risk of detonation. A mine can be detonated if a piece goes on it. A piece that lands on a mine would be removed from the game, and a king on a mine would be checkmated. I think this would be a great addition to variants as it adds an element of risk to the game. What do you think?

Description: Can control an opponent's piece How it Works: Lets say there's ur queen ready to take a pawn. You click on the control spell, and use the queen and attack the piece. Ur queen stays on the same square where it was, and the pawn becomes a white pawn. It can take any piece near it. However, if you sacrifice the piece, ur queen dies in the process. (This also means u get a second turn if u control the piece otherwise the opponent can just take it if their turn is directly after u move ur queen (for example) to control the piece) Plz msg on this forum for any suggestions.   - BossAtha

There will be a chair peice, so the player who had the turn puts there chair peice on their oppnents peice. When they do that the peice can't move at all until it's their oppnents turn to move the chair.

This is not really a new variant or position but I would like to share it anyway. It is pretty much just a queen but every time you capture a piece it converts to your color, whether you choose black or white, and you can place it anywhere on the board. No illustration yet.

I am proposing a variant where each player is given 4 helplines while playing a chess match. Helplines like 1) what is the next best move 2) which piece to move next 3) rollback a move if allowed . I don't know whether it is done or not.

The new custom variants should be displayed in a way that it catches everyone's attention so they get a lot of people to play it, like being the first thing shown when you go to the "variants" tab, and popping up in the home page.

Salvation bastions. This looks fire! Also, you can change the piece color regardless of inversion.

rickroll is boring.

This is my new position. If you have any name suggestions, please let me know.

When a peice like rook, horse and bishop is taken the other peice can't move for 2 turns. If they get the queen the pawns can't move for 2 turns, and if they get a pawn the oppnent gets to choose which of your pawn will be paralised for 2 turns.

In this, the pawns can en passant any piece if it comes directly in front of the pawn vertically

What if there was a piece that could move like one piece but only attack like another. Like if there was a piece that moved like a queen, but could only attack like a bishop. I'm pretty sure this is a bad idea, but let me know what you think.

Absolutely! Here’s a detailed recap of the 4-player Spell Chess variant, including the accurate initial position, that you can publish in your club:4-Player Spell Chess Variant:Board and Setup:•  The game is played on a 14x14 board, with each player starting in a corner.•  Each player has their own 2x10 area, and there’s a 2-square neutral zone between players.•  The initial piece placement is similar to traditional chess, with a 2-square gap between the king and queen for potential additional pieces or spells.Initial Position: Players and Turns:•  Four players take turns in a clockwise direction.•  Each player can make a standard chess move and cast a spell in the same turn.Spells:•  Players have a variety of spells at their disposal, including:•  Freeze: Freezes all pieces within a 3x3 grid for one turn. Cooldown: 3.•  Jump: Allows a selected piece to move to any square on the board for one turn. Cooldown: 3.•  Teleport: Moves a selected piece to any unoccupied square on the board for one turn. Cooldown: 3.•  Illusion: Creates a temporary duplicate of a piece that lasts for one turn or until captured. Cooldown: 3.•  Swap: Swaps positions with an opponent’s piece, as long as the move is legal for both pieces. Cooldown: 3.•  Shield: Protects a selected piece from being captured for one turn. Cooldown: 2.•  Control: Temporarily controls an opponent’s non-royal piece for one turn. Cooldown: 5.•  Boost: Doubles the moving range of a selected piece for one turn. Cooldown: 4.•  Reveal: Forces all pieces to move to their legally reachable squares. Cooldown: 3.•  Barrier: Creates an impassable barrier on the board that lasts for two turns. Cooldown: 5.•  Summon: Temporarily adds a non-royal piece of your choice to your army for two turns. Cooldown: 3.•  Time Warp: Allows you to make an additional move after your current turn. Cooldown: 6.•  Transformation: Transforms a target piece into another type of piece of the same color for two turns. Cooldown: 4.•  Each spell has a cooldown period, during which it cannot be used again.Objective:•  The goal is to checkmate all opponent’s kings.•  Players must balance the use of their spells with traditional chess strategy.Special Rules:•  Spells can create unique tactical opportunities but are limited by cooldowns.•  Alliances can form, adding a social and tactical element to the game.Victory Conditions:•  A player wins by checkmating an opponent’s king or by achieving a specific objective.•  The game can end in a draw through stalemate, agreement, or other conditions.Strategic Considerations:•  Players must manage their spells carefully, considering both their immediate effects and long-term cooldowns.•  The neutral zone can be a strategic area for positioning or spellcasting.•  Alliances can shift the balance of power, requiring adaptability and negotiation.

https://variants.world/posts/651 I know this is better to post on notes, but I have put on before, and I did not get a good response. This variant has been UR for a whole month, and I tried to find a single testing game by going through every single NCV Tester's archive. I could not. I thought it was because I was the submitter, and tried searching games using an alt, I cannot find one that way too. If there are testing games conducted that I could not find, please send me the links of them. I can find a good reason of variants being on UR being due to bugs, or UR NCV's such as Breakthrough https://variants.world/posts/388  or  Ends Meet https://variants.world/posts/430 was conducted with constant testing. Even WoF's such as Uneasy Alliance has testing ganes.  https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/70563687/101/1 Is there a specific reason https://variants.world/posts/651 is not tested at all, I do understand that this may need analysis on it being fair, but as an outsider, I do not see progress on this variant being tested at all. variants that has been on UR for more than a month are often met with a lot of testing. If there is a specific reason, I would like to know, if the testers somehow forgot about it, I would like testing games of https://variants.world/posts/651 being conducted as soon as possible since I know that this is an outlier.

1. Custom Castling: You can choose any two peices so they are able to castle with each other 2. Rifle Rule When taking a peice instead of moving to its place u stay where u are instead 3. The gnik (the anti king) is bassically the opposite of a king, it must be attacked to stay out of check! if the gnik cant get itself attacked, it is checkmated Part two portal go brrr click me nowwwwww

 I'm particularly interested in things you can do in FEN4 but not the normal editor.

When I have been doing custom variants on my computer it was very easy to switch between black and white but I have been trying to do it on my iPad and could not figure out how. Does anyone know how to? If you do, please leave a comment or message me.

How do you do the setup that looks like something in Ashtandrez? like a set 2 pieces deployed to the board

https://www.chess.com/blog/imchesspro0930/variants-tier-list no 4pc since I never played 80% of them also I treat this place as hanging out with online friends whilst making variants