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1. when a pawn reaches the 5th rank(or 4th if you are playing black) it gets promoted to a non-royal king(but can still promote) 2. when a pawn reaches the 7th rank(2nd if you are playing black) it becomes a knight/bishop(but can still promote) tell me what you think P.S. please don't lock this forum P.P.S. if you read this don't lock it just for fun

I've heard something like a fairy piece. What are fairy pieces?

do you want to increase popularity

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Don't take this too seriously! This is only for fun! Zombies on your lawn - When will Zombies On Your Lawn Get Accepted or Declined? Rowhouse - Unnecessary en-passant bug Sharp Incantation - Cansharptation Armageddon - Arkhangelsk Serendipity - OMG COOKIE CLICEKR REFERNECE!!1! Chak - Chakuraji Leapers - $2 Arkhangelsk but better Contrasting Strategies - It is impossible to balance an imbalance Delta's Campmate - Giant Pillagers Chess Cataclysm - THIS DOESN'T NEED A BETTER NAME, THIS NAME FITS VERY WELL Knives War - Ferz spam Delicate Giant - Cataclysm but awful 8000 - GOD WE'RE ALREADY ON GAME 8500 LOL Unequal - Unequal Strategies without the Strategies Utopia F-6/RP-7 - Utopia With The Bad Colour Scheme Pillagers Chess - Doubles but a million times better The Atlantis - Unpocket Unchess Pointy Garden - Hilly Jungle Without The Jungle Rookmate II - HOW DOES THIS HAVE 6 LIKES? Ode of Mulan - Pawn battle Inequity - More low-quality pocket chess submissions Allegiance - Unnecessary dead pawns Charybdis - My dad's least favourite variant Crampight - Cramped Fight, duh! Domino Dynamite - Most Peak Variant Submission Broker - Old version was better Sour Apple - WHY DO YOU THINK CHARLI XCX SUCKS? Spongebob Squarepants - Who lives in a pineapple under da sea? Ice on the Clock II - Bigger Ice on the Clock Tropical Forest - $2 Hilly Jungle Forbidden City - IVE BEEN THERE BEFORE!!! End Path - Generic 2P Submission Zodiac/Dead End - Useless blue pawns Florida Everglades - The Best Variant That I've Ever Made Camel of the Hill - Elongation (@imchesspro0930 recommended this in a testing game) Don't Promote - If you promote then you will checkmate the royal brick, causing the stupid zombie to munch you and ur opponent wins so dont promote ig Idaho Potato - FL or IDA? Sergeant's World - Ununique Tiny Atomici - Scacchi Atomici but Tiny Saturn's Kings - from the screen to the ring to the pen to the gniK Horse Party - Actually Good WoF Unforeseen - You Can Kiss A Hundred Boys In Bars Flames of the Forest - Lobotomy Mini Forest Ripoff Jungle City - Green Piece Spam Milla' Chess - $2 Pillagers Chess but actually good Prometheus' Fire - FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! The Golden - Overused Name DucKing - Duck King Lobotomy Cellar - OMG RED HERRINGS HAVE FOUND THEIR FRIENDS!!! (No Name) - Here is a name for this variant! Self-Destruction - Best Atomic variant yet... Battle for Prestige - haoleyi likes this lol Trapped Pieces - Are they randomly placed or not? Trench Warfare - Where are the roaches?

I recently lost a lot of ratings in WoF Bullet because I was playing against two accounts which were a pre-arranged team and most probably of the same person too. The names are @114514-man and @11451sb. Fortunately, they are now banned but I lost a TON OF RATING(FROM 1760 TO 1669) playing with them and I didn't realize that until the last couple of games when I noticed their names were similar and both were from China. Links of some games: https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/83022652 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/83022486 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/83022370 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/83021613 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/83020669 So my question is , WHO is going to refund all my points, accounting to a net total of 91 POINTS LOST TO PRE-ARRANGED TEAMERS?

I keep changing it! New challeenge: 1. 4*4 board 2. has to be a wof. I know so many people like 4-board wofs

Chess.com is the biggest chess site in the world. Yet, we don't have circular chess. We even have old versions of chess, like Chaturaji & Chaturanga. GreenChess.net has circular chess that we could mimic here on chess.com. It could also open up the world for custom variants. I am pretty new to the custom variants community, or the variants community in general, so I am not very qualified to talk about how we could implement circular chess. We could also try other board shapes. CGP Grey has a great video of hexagonal chess on YouTube. (YouTube Video Link) Like I mentioned before, I am not very qualified to talk about this subject. But I would love to see different board shapes in chess variants.  To sum up, I feel like different board shapes are not mentioned enough. It is okay if we can't have different board shapes. I am just proposing the idea to everyone. That's about it. Make sure not to be judgy of others' opinions when talking about this or anything else.

Hello to the Custom Variants community. I'd like to propose a new idea for a chess variant... I don't have an official name for this variant, but for now it's called Chess No Mercy (CNM). The idea of ​​the variant is very similar to Chess 960, but with the following differences:1. The position is different for both players (as seen in the image)2. The bishops can both be on the same square color 3. The rooks can be on the same side of the board That's the main idea of ​​the game, plus additional rules such as:There are no draws due to stalemate; the stalemated player wins. There are no draws due to time out vs. insufficient material. The player whose time runs out loses, regardless of whether their opponent doesn't have enough material to checkmate them. If you have any ideas for a name for this variant or any other suggestions, please leave them in the comments. Thank you for your attention.Here is an image of how could the variant look like.

These may not be completely true, these are tips I got from my creation of variants. These tips may have pinned forums about it, but I have to mainly provide real examples for it. I am not here to mock those creators, but using them as insight, I will remove examples of the owner wishes to. Also, shoutout to every personnel mentioned here! 1. Submitting your variant is a big deal. Have atleast 3~5 revisions from your initial draft (I have 15 for Unequal Strategies), and play so much that your archive is filled with it. (I recommend 20 minimum) Make improvements since your draft is never perfect. This was my first draft for Sharp Incantation. https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/70441257 and this is the final product https://variants.world/posts/771 Notice how different this is? Submitting should not be done when 9 games were filled, it should be done when you feel like you are ready and confident with it. 2. CGA's also mention this, but please be original. Variants like https://variants.world/posts/444 is not original, and will not be accepted (well, I am not a cga or even a tester, but if I was one, I would note a -1 because this is not original nor fun. Oh yeah dont submit knightchess. 3. variants should be fun. A very subjective but always-working tip is that would you play your variant at your leasure time. https://variants.world/posts/651 is Unequal Strategies, and I do sometimes play this when i am bored, and this is now I measure the fun factor. 4. This one if a little more specific, but avoid some variant combinations, the most notable one being Crazyhouse and Atomic, and avoid gamerules such as crazyhouse or fog of war on large boards. https://variants.world/posts/223 is also a good example, just do not out crazyhouse on large boards, fog of war has it's exceptions, but don't. Another tip: Do not exceed 16 pieces per side on a crazyhouse board on a 2pc, and 12 for 4pc.  5. This is a connection to 1, but when playtesting, get players who can give good feedback if you can to the board. One of my variants, https://variants.world/posts/771 had trouble with playtesting since half of the players blundered mate on move 3 due to not knowing how spells work. Due to this, most of the testing was conducted by 1 person, @asthebird because he was able to give quality feedback, and was able to play high level games to a certain extent. This does not mean you cannot give feedback to yourself, stuff such as Hill rush is too overpowered, this side is not fair, etc. 6. Please make your variants fair, ESPECIALLY if it's an imbalance. In most variants where it is not an imbalance, https://variants.world/posts/777 (hey triple 7!) I did some testing with the author of this variant that is currently in UR as of september 29th, and with 2 knights on each other's side of the board, you can get quickly mated, and even if you dont, you lose a ton of material. and this can get extremely unfair since takeover is on, and this happens really early on the board, so you have the majority of that guy's army. This can obviously happen with the greatest chance if it's green, so make sure of those issues. Another one is that some variants have gamerules that make firts move advantae really evident. https://variants.world/posts/299 has an issue with it, as with other submissions I have browsed through. As with imbalances, convince a high level player that is interested and play extensively. I approximate the testing games I have played with @jackityjackjack on Unequal Strategies is about 40~50 games, without exaggeration. All this was to make sure it is fair. 7. Try to avoid inspiring other variants. Personally, the hardest part of creating variants is to come up with a fun and original idea. I am pretty sure this is what a variant needs nowadays to get it accepted. Trust me, whenever I try inspiring other variants, people know what I inspired off of, even if the variant is obscure. again, be original.  8. Now, you might ask, where do you get those ideas? well, you get them from a lot of places. My favourite is to brainstorm right before sleeping, because you can get a lot of mediocre ideas, and polish them to a few good ideas. Another is to try to mash the merits of 5 or more variants, and create something new. Or just experiment with a lot of gamerules. Try not to force out ideas, I take about 2 weeks to make one variant, and a whole week of that is to come up with a good idea. 9. Do not think the submission requirement of 9 games as 9 games. Think these 9 games as 9 high quality games, the types of games you would imagine between 2 players who knows what they're doing, the only exception to this is if you have done extensive testing with one person that can warrant the amount of feedback 9 good games does, then you can fill the rest with filler, otherwise, please play some quality games. Examples of bad testing games include https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/71617756, and good ones include https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/71493787 . Compare the chat and the amount of mvoes and the quality of the moves and stuff. I would say play a minimum of 6 of games in that quality. This does not mean if you got 6 aand you immediately go submit. My advice: unless your variant is really fast paced, only put games that are above 20 moves. Better if there was not many blunders in the game itself. Again, submitting is serious. 10. This one's more of a tip, but have a variant friend who can and are willing to test a lot of games for you. This is really useful on a 4pc variant, where the custom queue takes FOREVER to fill up. If the friend is not that bad at the particular variant, then it can be very helpful to easen up the process of testing. just chat with players you see on your average variant matches to ask them if they are interested on it. I helped @chye3mc 's WOF: Rimchess a lot by testing a lot of his games.  This one's kind of an extra, but do not be demotivated when your variant is declined. Read over the pinned threads like 5 times to see if there is a problem, but even with all that there is a 90% chance it will be declined. If the issue looks fixable, fix it. If it's not, move on from it. I recently got one of my variants autodeclined, but with this rate of working I expect to make 24 QUALITY variants in 1 year. @josephruhf has made tens of how do I say this.... low quality submissions (im sorry), and 3 of them got accepted. If you consistently make quality variants, one of them will eventually be accepted. Also, whatever ChessmasterGS says will basically be the verdict (saying this from experience), so if you are blesses enough to get his feedback and if he points out an issue that is almost unfixable, I would scrap that. (I actually scrapped one of the WoF's I was working on by a single line of his feedback)

hEy, HeRe Is A cUsToM gAmE, dOeS aNyOnE wAnT tO tEsT iT? everyone posts the testing thread gif and the forum gets locked instantly (this is suppose to show how not to show your custom position) (and yes I made that. I hate it.)

Just like the cascade mountain range in the pacific north west, the board is massive (14 by 14 board), as well as the amount of pieces, pawns promote on the 5th rank, there is many options for openings, you can use pieces that you have captured from your opponent, and the goal is to checkmate your opponent. Pieces like amazons (queen and knight) are powerful, and others require good thinking (like the grasshopper, it has poor defense to make up for it's good attack moves). There are many unique pieces to use, and many possibilities. Can you checkmate the opponent and win cascade chess? Rules: Crazyhouse, Pawn promotion Id's are ABCEFGHIJLNOQRS, Replace archbishops with hawks and the Promotion rank is 5

1. freeze only takes up 1 square 2. freeze starts at 3x3 square and expands each move until 5x5 3. freeze can only be placed on kings (1x1 square

I’ve been noticing that while many people submit variants on VW, people also do this on Chess.com forums. CGA checks those, and also Variants World ones. But this forum is to ask one simple question: why are there to ways to submit these anyway?

Uhh I found that the color system is useless,because the only 3 results of all the variants are Accepted,Declined,and PR,so why not we just do like that? Helios Likely Result: Declined Reason: Not mean to,but NCV with a such complex mechanism(promote and sac the grasshoppers to the zombie or just stalement opponent)is not always good;what's more,atomic is a quite difficult gamerule to learn and play well - or just after some days,the creator will self-decline lol

not mine now lolall the votes based on testlab, the variant have less than 2 votes don't count, a vote without a game doesn't count. only counts votes in fourm cause I'm lazy lol Self-Destruction+3, 3 votesLikely Verdict: PR to WoF Trench War-0, 3 votesLikely Verdict: Declined (?) Phantom Jungle+2, 2 votesLikely Verdict: Accepted (?)  Riptide+2, 2 votes CGA vote: +1 (?)Likely Verdict: Accepted (?) Hilly Golden Rain+2-1, 4 votesLikely Verdict: (?) Torpedoes in a Lake+3, 3 votesCGA vote: -1Likely Verdict: (?)  Wild+4, 4 votesCGA votes: +1, +1Likely Verdict: PR or Accepted  Incisive Strike+2, 3 votesCGA votes: -1, -1, -1Likely Verdict: Declined more coming soooon

What if you are considered to be a actually decent variant creator, you could receive "PRO MODE" from the moderators. If and only if you have pro mode you can use non-QBRNPK pieces, atomic/giveaway modes, and other overused features. This would cut down dramatically on "UpGrAdEd ChEsS" and "lay down 50 Amazons and call it a variant". Just a thought.

I wanted to place my pawn or ferz on the f7 square, blocking the check of the xiangqi horse on f8, but the site didn't let me, so I lost the game in the next move. I wonder why that is. Could you please help me? If you find that my complaint is justified, please give me back my lost rating.

1. Custom Variant- Double Chess 960- where White has a different starting position from Black. Simple- Same chessboard, same pieces and same rules as Chess 960. That's a possible combination of 960x960=921,600. The Ultimate Chess Complication.2. Custom Clock- Repeating Time- I got the idea from Chronos and it's called Final Delay. My Idea is from 1 to 30 seconds.example: repeating 5 sec or 10 sec or 15 sec or 30 sec- repeating and does not accumulate. The player thinks, makes a move before time runs out and the time goes back to what was set initially. The game will continue until Checkmate, 3-Fold Repetition, 50-Move Rule, Resignation, Draw Offer and of course Time Runs Out.

Screenshot: FFA NCP: Villagers Chess IITime control: 1|3DRules: Play 4 Mate, Promotion on 11th rank, to a Rook | Bishop | Knight | King | Elephant | Hawk | Knight-Rider | General.Info: Widescreen chess board + Villagers Chess Pieces = Villagers Chess II Games played: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735199 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735227 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735241-14 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735286 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735346 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735461 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735474-0 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735516 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735555-20 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9735555-20 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=9750188 Thank you!