Hello, the members of SugarBlossom Variants!This is the place where you can actually shop items with the points you gained in Community Challenges.
Good luck, and have fun!Post a comment here to buy the things you want!
Item
Description
Price (Points)
Requirements
🍪🍪🍪
Just some virtual cookies
0
nah, It's useless anyways
Unbelivaboat 10000 points
Gives you 10000 points in SugarBlossom Discord, Unbelivaboat channel!
5
You need join discord, at least.
👑Gold VU
You're able to submit 3 variants per week (168 hours time frame). Lasts one month.
10
You need to join VU.
💎Diamond VU
You're able to submit 4 variants per week (168 hours time frame). Your variants will get a 💎 sign in UR submission list.Lasts two month.
20
You need to join VU.
Custom Challenge
Add a custom challenge for community.Lasts one month.
10+3n (n=challenge value)
x1.2 rating modification boost (1 month)
You'll get a month's boost for SBV Rating modifications (x1.2).It applies for both loss and win.
6
You need to join Playing Sever.
x0.5 rating modification boost (1 day)
You'll get a day's boost for SBV Rating modifications (x0.5). Just to prevent if you suddenly lost 60000 during an important match lol It applies for both loss and win.
1
You need to join Playing Sever.
x1.5 rating modification boost (1 month)
You'll get a month's boost for SBV Rating modifications (x1.5).It applies for both loss and win.
15
You need to join Playing Sever.
x2 rating modification boost (1 month)
You'll get a month's boost for SBV Rating modifications (x2).It applies for both loss and win.
30
You need to join Playing Sever.
Revive card! 💳
You can cast a Revive card on your post!We'll put your post in somewhere obvious to try revive it!
5
You can only buy one in 168 hours time frame.
Coming soon!
skakistis001
10 min ago
Greetings all:Rather than seeing our forums, notes be filled with "Do YoU lIkE mY vAriAnt?" or "WhO cAn heLP tEst My VaRiant?", We decided to create this instead.There're 3 format of posting a comment to ask for feedback:
Testers wanted: When your variant needs experienced testers from certain time zones, you may post your variants' information there.
Feedback needed: You wants to analyze your variant via others' feedback. You are required to provide at least one testing game. The analysis often includes the pieces synergy, the game-rules combinations and possible modifications. Providing each full variant analysis earns 1 point of Community Challenges.
Games analysis needed: You wants to ask others to analyze your game.Requirements: it's actually ok and instructive.Requirement for the reviewer (Exclusive for variants games not variants creations 💀): at least 1900 in the SBV variant.Providing each full variant analysis earns 3 point of Community Challenges.
ChocoCaramelPawn
2 hrs ago
I created this forum because the club live chat isn't getting used, and notes are often used to save important information.Feel free to share your thoughts there!
Edited: Advertisements are only allowed in this forum.
ChocoCaramelPawn
3 hrs ago
Follow the post to receive updates as soon as they are available!
This thread is meant as a way for us to update everyone on when a variant is accepted or declined in one place!
If you want your variant Under Review, instead of posting them under this forum, join here to see further explanation(and submit your variants!)
Explanation for Verdicts:
Under Review (UR): The variant is submitted.Pending Reply (PR): The variant has some minor issues that we have fixed. The creator can choose to accept the revisions or decline them.Declined (D): The variant was voted by a majority of us to be declined. Accepted (A): The variant was voted by most of the members to be accepted. it will be added to either the WoF rotation or the NCV public listing.
Please don't comment there, unless it is a verdict of a VU Variant, or an important update.
yu-x897
14 hrs ago
The Guide For Beginners
Hello, The members of SugarBlossom Variants Community!
Did you just randomly stumble upon this club? Don't know what a custom variant is? Don't worry, this guide will help you understand everything, just keep reading!
Let's get started!
1. Intro To The Three SBV Clubs
SugarBlossom Variants
SugarBlossom Variants is a club originally made by @yu-x897 with an intention of uniting community of chess variant enjoyers, everyone can post some fun forums to ask questions or share things!
In chess.com, there is this tab called 'Variants'. This opens a server full of features and opportunities, but the main focus in this club comes from 'Custom Variants' - Variants that are made with mixing different pieces, rules and board sets.
https://www.chess.com/blog/chococaramelpawn/make-your-own-chess-variant-full-guide-for-begginers
For a detail guide on how to make a variant, check out a blog I wrote, it goes through everything in detail.
Variants.Universe Join!
So, you made your own variant what do you do now?
First of all, join the Variant.Universe club. It is essentially a place to submit your creations to see if they are worthy of becoming a variant you can play for rating points and have its own leaderboard! I wrote a guide here on how to submit your variant properly. Good luck!
Also, you can submit your custom puzzles there as well! For example, if you got a beatiful combination in a game of atomic chess, you can give us the position with a solution, and will add it to the puzzle library! Pretty cool, right?
SugarBlossom Variants Playing Join!
Once the submissions / your submission has a verdict, there are 2 ways it could go:
The submission gets declined. The verdict points out the issues and potential ways to fix them. You fix them and resubmit your variant for a chance of acceptation or drop the concept and start working on another variant.
The submission gets accepted! Congrats! Now your variant has your own leaderboard and you can play it rated!
Once again, you'll have to join a club, for playing custom variants. There are a lot of variants to play there, and we would sometimes hold arenas there, too!
Once you join, you can find your variants in NCV or WoF section, depending on your variant format! Each NCV has it's own forum where you can play games of it and send in the forums to get rating!
The higher you rating is, the more likely you can get into HALL OF FAME! You can get here by getting any of these requirements, and your name will be in our club forever:
If you always gets confused by the common abbreviations we use, you can check them here!
SBV → SugarBlossom Variants: This Club!
VU → Variants.Universe: A club to submit variants
NCV → New Custom Variants: Variants that commonly has a big board, and a Rapid / Blitz Time Control
WoF → Wheel of Fortune: Variants that commonly has a small board, and a Bullet / Hyper Time Control
UR → Under Review: Submissions that hasn't recieved a verdict.
TC → Time Control: The time allowed to play
VVF/VVN → Variants Verdict Notification (it was Feed before): The Forum that posts the recent verdicts made
S-d → Self-decline: Declining your own variant
re → Rematch: Play the same variant with the same opponent
inv → Invite/Challenge: invite/challenge someone to a variant game
Members:
yx → @yu-x897
Choco → @ChocoCaramelPawn
If you have any more that I missed, please leave a comment!
I hope you enjoyed this little guide and that it will help you with navigation of the clubs! For more info you can check out our directory but it is quite long and the most basic information was explained here.
P.S. Also i forgot to say, credits to AllenBB314 for the draft of this!
If you have anymore questions leave a comment here, we will answer you!
HorsBlunderingAlways_67
15 hrs ago
Hi! I am @ChocoCaramelPawn, the co-creator of this club and it's current owner. I like playing and making chess variants, so send me an invite in the variants server when i am online!
Sanaki28
22 hrs ago
Hello, the members of SugarBlossom Community!Want to try to participate and compete in variants challenges more regularly..? Want to challenge yourself and be memorized by entering the Hall of Fame? Want to improve your skills of variants, or more? Want to help the Community while having fun?This one, is the forum you need!
Participate in the weekly challenges given per week, simultaneously score the points to enter Hall of Fame!
(Challenges)
Deadline
Challenge
Points Worth
Difficultly
5/1
/Playing/ Play 3 games of Acheron, and load it there.
3
Easy
5/1
/Playing/ Win a game of Acheron with at least 4 captures of knight-rider, and load it there.
6
Medium
5/1
/Testing/ Test an Under Review Variant in Variants.Universe, and load the vote by typing in the variant forum you just tested.
3
Easy
5/1
/Playing/ Participate in Qualifier 3!
1st Place -> 5
2nd -> 4
3rd -> 3
4th -> 2
5th -> 1
Play 3 games -> 1
Medium
Whenever you finished the challenges above, please notify us there to gain your scores!There'll be also some virtual things such as 🍪🍪 as prizes (lol) for the winners of the month! The points will be also vital for future events, where you can trade them for boosts!!
Total Leaderboard:1. @Nyutixbrother 282. @AllenBB314 183. @MistMint 174. @lecreme-croissant 115. @coopster8730 96. @yu-x897 67. @Beniqualsmc2 1, @The-Fiery-Falcon 1, @NinjaLis 1, @Sanaki28 1, @killerpawn1212 1 @Varinator1 1, @CzarnyResorak567 1, @imakevariants101 1, @BlueYoshi21 1, @ChocoCaramelPawn 1, @Dan-kyu_System 1
Nyutixbrother
4 days ago
Having trouble...
navigating the forum threads,
finding the information you need,
or getting questions answered?
This is the SugarBlossom Variants Directory, where the most important forum threads are compiled and categorized! So whether you need information on how to submit a variant, a guide on how to make one, or something else, this can help out!
This thread will be periodically updated, so keep an eye out for changes! Use the bold titles on the sections to quickly find sections you want to read. Hopefully, with this, we'll have less clutter in the forum as there won't need to be as many pinned threads...
Additionally, if you haven't join Variants Playing and Variants Universe (Important features), most of the links wouldn't be accessible.
Important features
Variants Playing
A club where includes all features related to variants playing. (Please click the link and join it!!)
Variants.Universe
A club where includes all features related to Submissions and Verdicts. (Please click the link and join it!!)
General
Club rules
Rule about what you should and shouldn't do in the club, simultaneously a useful guide to understand the theme, concept behind the club. If you wanna learn what to do and don't in the forums, check it for information!
General Chatting
Communicate friendly and share your thoughts! It would be genuinely great if you wish teach us your experience!
Verdict
Verdict drafts
An important way to communicate verdicts before giving it out!
Variant Verdict Feed
Forum where you are able to check the verdicts of the submitted variants! Follow the forum to get notifications of the newest verdicts!
Testing Notes
Forum where you are (supposed to) communicate variants testing and learn the standard of voting.
Submissions list
Forum to check all the submissions (there're links of posts)!
Testing Scheduling
Ways to get testing with our members!
Playing
NCVs playing
Forum to access all listed NCVs (New Custom Variants) of SugarBlossom.
Listed WoFs playing
Forum to access all listed WoFs (Wheel of Fortunes) of SugarBlossom.
WoF Rotation
Forum to access all rotation WoFs and WoFs arenas.
Arenas
Forum to access all arenas.
Club Arenas
Host and play the live club arenas of different custom positions!
Leaderboards
Forum to access all WoFs, NCVs leader-board.
Puzzles
Puzzles Submission
Forum to submit all the puzzles you got! Have fun and thank for the submissions!!
Puzzles Database
Forum to save all the accepted puzzles.
Monthly Puzzles
Learn
Lessons - Guide:
How to use the editor?
by @ChocoCaramelPawn, extremely nice guide of creating variants!
Learn to Submit a Variant!
by @ChocoCaramelPawn, edited by @yu-x897 @MistMint, introduces the steps you need to done when submitting a VU variant.
Creating the Variant
by @ChocoCaramelPawn, not finished yet, but a genuinely good lesson to introduce the skills of revising/improving variants!
There're supposed to be more.... Coming soon!
Lessons - Out of Guide:
Having fun!
Memes
Originally by @imchesspro0930, posting your favorite memes about variants.
New Pieces, New Rules, Custom Gamerules/pieces Sheet!
Create the variants which impossible to in server! Also known as "special submissions", a incredible way to show your creativity!
Creator Challenge
Variants in Imagination challenge who based on the"impossible" submissions!
Naming Trend
Naming trend providing ideas for your variant!
Events
Announcements
Community Variants Series
Community Variant 1
Tournaments
SBV Championship Season 1
Train
Analysis
A forum to analysis your games, your variants, and even more!
Variants Workshop
Workshop to create Community Variant and provide regular feedback!
Endgames
Submission rush
Playing Practice
Creating Insights
More coming soon!
Thanks for your effort there and have fun!
yu-x897
Jan 28, 2026
For keeping the Community friendly and thoughtful, according to the theme of Reforms, Formulating these rules:
Note that while on the below clubs/server, these rules should still be adhered to.Variants.UniverseGames PlayingDiscord Server
In a nutshell:
No griefing actions.
Vote fairly.
No admin power abuse.
1. No Griefing Actions.
1.1 No malicious spamming. Malicious spamming is defined as the actions creating a lot inefficient, unproper (1), or aggressive comments. These actions may result in a warning.
1.2 Be kind to one another. Do not attack, smear, insult other members. Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered (2).
1.3 Don't be toxic. Overly sarcastic messages, unkind behaviours, biased, discriminatory, corrupt comments will classify as being toxic.Warnings will be delivered when the first, or second, third violation of the rule. Then, depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.4 Don't do something against the club, or Terms of Service. Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.5 No griefing testing/working process (3). Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.6 Follow Terms of Service. These are the common behaviours that may get your accounts disabled:
Creating unauthorized alternative accounts.
Cheat with Stockfish, or any engines.
Create a lot alternative accounts and self-farming.
Sandbagging by losing a lot elo on purpose.
2. Fairly voting
2.1 You may not vote on your own variant in the testing process.The self-voting will get deleted.
2.2 The completely pointless, trolling, biased, alliance votes will not be counted.
2.3 Vote requires at least one game after submission if it isn't Pre-VU variant.
2.4 Completely reason-less or pure yap votes (according to discussion) will get deleted as well. Once there's a retest request with reasonable reasons, testers should retest the variant.
3. No admin power abuse.
3.1 Do not delete others' comments randomly. All of the comments deletion must have a proper reason, and you must mention them in forum.
3.2 Do not ban/mute/demote others if no rules are violated.
3.3 Do not change forums description randomly, nor variants descriptions.
(1) unproper, stands for the comments that may be considered offensive, or may start a conflct.(2) All types of punishment: timely demotion (from 1 week to 1 month); mute (1 week to 2 months); abilities restriction (voting, forums creating, etc); ban (from 1 month to forever).(3) Behaviours that highly harmed the community's progress.
yu-x897
Dec 27, 2025
Count in funny ways here! There are only 3 rules:
1. The number or the result of an equation needs to be equal to current member count
2. The equation needs to be funny
3. You cannot count twice in a row
Let's go!
skakistis001
9 min ago
rules: atomic crazyhouse any capture bare piece game o🄵 points
time control: 1 | 3
https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100802849
https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100830971/0/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100837847 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100863164/32/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100889487/15/
https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100730937/3/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100734587 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100734835 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100739797 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/10074037
https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100801771 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100802003/10/1
https://variants.world/posts/10303
Description:
explode 🄵erzes on this 🄵ive by 🄵ive board to win by points at 🄵irst there are 🄵our 🄵erzes on the board the 🄵ive dead 🄵erzes in the middle prevent 🄵orced openings since 🄵erzes cannot 🄵all on them. when all your 🄵erzes are o🄵🄵 the main 🄵ive by 🄵ive board you lose by bare piece rule and your opponent gets 🄵ive points 🄵or each o🄵 the 🄵erzes on the side: the 🄵our blue ones and your trapped 🄵erz which is your last piece according to bare piece rule i🄵 you explode all the 🄵erzes o🄵🄵 the main board both players will have one piece le🄵t and because bare piece rule is wierd the game doesn't end until the other player places a 🄵erz so you lose the 🄵ive points i🄵 you explode all the 🄵erzes this creates some interesting tactics the entire game has a lot o🄵 interesting tactics a lot o🄵 people who have accepted variants like this including the creator o🄵 yolanda the number o🄵 🄵erzes in each bank at the start is the best part o🄵 this variant.
🄵
masco13
1 hr ago
hi my name is phong i live in viet nam in phú thọ i am [blocked] years old i am a provincial-level math prodigy
masco13
1 hr ago
Making good variants requires a lot of revising, thinking and analysis.
In this forum i want to show you a way how to identify issues and revise your variants correctly based on the issues. I will take as an example my submission Stone Lock. I am not saying it is good, but it is certainly not terrible - the main goal here is to show a way how to keep making your variants better.
Stage 1 - Idea and Concept
Unfortunately, i see a lot of people fail on the the very first stage. It is much easier to fit an idea into a chessboard rather than fitting a chessboard into an idea. That's why you should have a brief idea of what unique your variant will introduce - otherwise, the whole concept is useless.
Your idea might shift later in the future, but it is important to have it in the beginning. My first on the Stone Lock was making an NCV version of Obsidian Pinnacle with fatal gamerule - quite different from my result!
This is what i made in 20 minutes
I went into the board editor, and spent a good 10 minutes of my time making the initial position. After choosing the piece palette (deciding which pieces i would use)m placing them on the board was easy. I spent a good 10 minutes of my time after that removing all first move threats and overpowered strategies. And that's my concept! I just turned my concept into a basic visualization of my idea.
Stage 2 - Experimentation
My variant had a few issues:
It is really hard to get to the hill
The promotion is really hard
You usually have to sacrifice a piece for a pawn
The gameplay is not enjoyable
I only could fix this issues by changing the position drastically. This is where the second part comes in - changing gamerules, pieces, board according to the issues until all or most of them are gone. Here are some solutions i found to my issues:
It is really hard to get to the hill - Put the king closer to the hill by removing two ranks
The promotion is really hard - Remove two ranks in order to make it take less moves to promote.
You usually have to sacrifice a piece for a pawn - Added more defensive pieces
The gameplay is not enjoyable - Hm how do i fix that one
With all these factors taken into considerations, i remade the position:
My second try
While my try fixed the pawn promoting and impossible to get to the hill issue, it introduced some new ones:
Some pieces were useless and not getting used
The game became pretty cramped
So, what do you? You try again.
My third try
Pawn are again really hard to promote
Most pieces are only getting used to stop pawns
And again!
Fourth try
In the process of revising i had to abandon the idea of making a bigger Obsidian Pinnacle, so I decided to lock the royal completely and make so that you have to promote the pawn to checkmate. Reshaping my idea a little bit made this a lot better! There were still some problems:
The game was a tradefest
Because of crazyhouse, i could put my pawns anywhere
Blue had a big tempo advantage
Actually close to something...
ChocoCaramelPawn
2 hrs ago
Congragulations to @CooolChicken for creating the variant of our third qualifier!
Link to main forum -> https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/sugar-blossom-variants-championship-test-season?page=1
Example Game -> https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/94191750/0/3
Archive:
https://www.chess.com/variants/Czarny-Varinator/game/100667612/29/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Varinator-Czarny/game/100667704/38/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Czarny-Varinator/game/100667796/32/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Varinator-Czarny/game/100667887/25/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Czarny-Varinator/game/100667979/15/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Varinator-Czarny/game/100668047/24/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Czarny-Varinator/game/100668126/23/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Varinator-Czarny/game/100668193/17/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Czarny-Variantor/game/100668250/28/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Variantor-Czarny/game/100668314/35/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Varinator-Gardent/game/100667572/17/1
11 games
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https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-imv/game/100708383/1/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/imv-Nyutix/game/100708586/16/3
https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-imv/game/100708780/16/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/imv-Nyutix/game/100708962/18/3
https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-imv/game/100709328/17/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/imv-Nyutix/game/100709511/16/3
https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-imv/game/100709711/15/1
7 games
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https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-Dan8games/game/100889004/23/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Mist-Nyutix2games/game/101001442/14/3
https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-Mist2games/game/101001709/29/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Choco-Nyutix2games/game/101002265/14/3
https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-Choco/game/101002686/25/1
https://www.chess.com/variants/Yoshi-Choco2games/game/101001912/25/3
https://www.chess.com/variants/Nyutix-Gymnast2games/game/101165607/15/1
19 games
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Joined:
@yu-x897
@ChocoCaramelPawn
@AllenBB314
@Varinator1
@Nyutixbrother
@JosephAtePerson
@MistMint
@imakevariants101
@BlueYoshi21
@killerpawn1212
Standings:
1. @Nyutixbrother 16/24 +8 score
2. @Varinator1 7/11 +3 score
3. @Dan-kyu_System 6/8 +4 score
4. @CzarnyResorak567 4/10 -1 score
T-5. @BlueYoshi21 1/2 =0 score
T-5. @MistMint 1/4 -3 score
T-5. @ChocoCaramelPawn 1/5 -4 score
T-5. @imakevariants101 1/7 -6 score
T-6. @gardent490 0/1 -1 score
T-6. @GymnastLazer829 0/2 -2 score
Started. Ends April 25
ChocoCaramelPawn
2 hrs ago
Title creator challenge
Rules:
1. The winning conition has to be promoting on certian squares.
2. The winning promotion must be 1 piece (e.g only alfil) You can add other non-winning promotions as well.
3. Maximium 3 good squares for promotion. One color complex doesn't count
That's basically everything.
Variants in challenge:
1. Delicate Giant (https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/74828029/21/3) Status: Accepted
2. Colorbound Complexity (https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/95979578/0/1) Status: Declined.
ChocoCaramelPawn
2 hrs ago
Hello, the SugarBlossom Variants Community!
These are the types of tournaments, matches, arenas, Swiss Games available!---Regular Chess---Bughouse---960---(blitz) Trapped Queens (by @RALRAL3333)r1b1kb1r/Pp1ppppp/qP6/Pp6/pP6/Qp6/pP1PPPPP/R1B1KB1R w KQkq - 0 1
---(blitz) Stone Gravitation (by @RALRAL3333)6nk/3p2pr/p2Pp1pb/p2pP1p1/Pp1Pp1P1/1P1pP3/NR1P4/KNB5 w - - 0 1
---(bullet) Moments Before Nuclear Armageddon (by @nqaed)3R4/8/6n1/1NN2pp1/3P4/PB6/1BP2q2/1K3knn w - - 0 1
---(bullet) Evolution Fire (by @Gigabyte_Malware)NN2nrrr/PN2pnpn/1BP1p1n1/PPPPqpnp/Q1K2pn1/PNPPbp2/RRNP2b1/NB3k2 w - - 0 1
---(blitz) Anti-Brain System (by @Hydrahta)4b1nQ/1B2n1BR/3K3R/PPPPPPPP/ppppppp1/r6p/rb1Nk3/qN6 w - - 0 1
---(bullet) Target Practice (by @Jayne3007)3k1rr1/nnnnpp2/8/8/8/8/BBBBPPPP/3K3R w - - 0 1
---(rapid) Split Chain (by @RALRAL3333)knrqbb1r/pp4pP/5pP1/3p1P2/2pP4/1pP5/pP4PP/R1QRBBNK w - - 0 1
Beniqualsmc2
4 hrs ago
Hi I want to know what your Favorite variant in chess com is
Beniqualsmc2
4 hrs ago
Welcome to SugarBlossom Variants sidebar 
Reviving needed: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/sugarblossom-community-variant-1
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