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Please, report any bugs you may find on the Variants server in this thread.Do not report bugs in the club notes, where they may not be noticed and will get lost and be forgotten about.When reporting bugs, please: Describe exactly what you were doing and how to reproduce the bug (if you can). Include links to games or screenshots where applicable. It may be useful to include which browser you were using (particularly for UI bugs, as different browsers may sometimes render elements differently). Check the browser console for any errors when the bug occurs and include a copy or screenshot. (Ignore ad-tracker messages.) Old 4PC bug thread

Variants gives players the opportunity to design new variants themselves, play them (unrated), and submit for review by team CGA (custom game admins), for a chance to have one’s game listed. How to create custom games: Hit 'A' on your keyboard (or open any game), click the Edit Position icon at the bottom right. Create a starting positionChoose board dimensions (anything from 2x2 to 14x14), and set up pieces (including 23 fairy pieces) for up to 4 players. Bricks and transparent bricks are also available, as well as dead pieces (serve as removable obstacles), or bounty pieces (live pieces that belong to a dead player, the difference to dead pieces being that they give points when captured). Additionally up to 2 players can be set to be zombies, eg a computer will move them, according to the zombie type. Zombies can be made immune, meaning their pieces cannot be captured (these are extremely powerful “moving walls”). (The blue knight will make random moves and cannot be captured.)The royal piece must not be a king, it can be set to any one piece for each player.Add rules:There are some two dozen rules available which can be combined. Of course there are limits, if a variant requires additional rules (say something like ‘backwards pawns’), those would need to be coded by us first. New rules are coded in a way that they can be used as building blocks. For example, Racing Kings can be ‘added’ to any game, so you could create 3player atomic racing kings or whatever.Any player can create such a game and play it casual. Admins can add games to the list of variants, and listed games may be played rated. For listed games, admins can set up a variety of further properties, such as name, url, icon, teaser text, how-to-play descriptions, sorting, categories, which rating to use, etc.Team CGA has become increasingly strict and only accepts very well thought out and fun games. They also remove games again that don’t get much attention. Join the Custom Variants Club to share your New Custom Variants (NCV) ideas: Please read the requirements carefully before submitting your variant.

Hi everyone! I was curious to see which variants players find most interesting/diverse/fun I'm expecting to see similar trends to player count per variant, but I might be surprised. : D Looking forward to seeing your responses! Edited a year later to include my own response haha Chaturaji/Hyper-fiesta Crazyhouse Bughouse Four-player-chess (FFA/teams) Atomic Spell chess Cross Derby

Well, it's been a few days since the big 'ol merge between chess.com/variants and chess.com/4-player-chess. It seems like the coders/devs are busy running around patching bugs, updating things (a million thanks!), and just putting out fires in general, so I don't expect any of this to be listened to that carefully any time soon, but I thought I'd start a conversation, and place for general suggestions to be posted. I have a few of my own, which I'll plop down in the comments, but others are welcome to contribute as well, so long as A) You're actually making an earnest suggestion of something you think would be to the benefit of the playerbase at large, and B) You're not suggesting a reversal of any changes which were made with the update. We get it, you don't like change. Go home and cry to someone else. I'm hereby giving (and requesting) for the forum admins to remove comments which don't adhere to those two criteria. That being said, I'll try to keep this list updated, based on what's been suggested. I'll also mark the list with the following icons: =Suggested and meets my two criteria listed above =Admin/staff response =Approved in theory, implementation may take some time (if ever). =Implemented =Rejected So here's the list (will be updated with my own, and others' suggestions from the comments): Links to leaderboards from profile boxes Rating history archive "Hide deal offers" toggle switch En Passant = 1 pt. Eggshell Chess Variant Fewer listed variants "Hide arrows from spectators" option Disable chat by default Recent rating change indicators Anonymous spectators in anonymous games Games played restriction on queues Include "4PC" prefix for 4PC FFA and Teams games with icon Point leaders auto-accept deal offers Filters for watch list Attribution to custom positions' creators New "Landmine" variant Dynamic page links to appropriate forums Tournament (combined) leaderboard Multiple promotion ranks, with different promotion options Walls which only apply to certain colours Movable "Hill" squares in KotH Autojoin next arena game Reports revamp Custom ruleset filters on play tab Daily games Sharable analysis boards Customisable play order within gamerules All one-point promotions gamerule "Bouncing Chess" rule

Hello! I'm one of the people working on Variants and I'm posting on behalf of the team. Variants has had a lot of changes over the last few years and in the spirit of transparency we wanted to do a sort of official Q&A. The current team will do its best to answer any questions that you have about the Variants project. We are going to collect questions here over the next week and work to get them answered by Friday, December 1st. Post your own questions and upvote questions you want answered! I know it's been a bumpy ride, but the passion of the community is a huge reason I enjoy working on this project and I hope that we can use this to get aligned and get back to enjoying the awesomeness of Variants.

Welcome to the Chess Variants discussion forum. This club is a resource for anyone looking to dive deeper into the ideas, theory, and community of the Chess.com Variants server, and for its players to meet, share thoughts, and discuss specifics of the variants. To better allow for a productive and healthy exchange of ideas, there are a few rules that we ask all club members and commenters to follow. 6 Simple rules: Comments shared on the forum must have purpose and be related to the Chess.com Variants server. Do not advertise on this forum. No spam. Be kind to one another. Do not use this forum as a means to accuse another player of rule-breaking. This forum is moderated at the discretion of the admins, and by the admins alone. Posts and comments which do not follow these rules may be removed, edited or locked. Frequent abusers of these rules may be temporarily or permanently muted within this forum, or banned from this club entirely with or without warning. 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Just for fun, folks. Plain and simple fun. In this game, two or more players team up against a random-move bot. The player who suggests the weakest possible move (as determined by the chess engine) in the current position scores 1 point. The first player to reach 8 points wins the game. Short Rules Player's Goal: Be the first to score 8 points.How to Score a Point: Suggest the weakest possible move for your team in the current position. This move is selected by a powerful chess engine (., Stockfish) based on the most negative evaluation of the position after the move.Teams and Opponent: A team of 2-5 players plays against a random-move bot. Turn Process1. Players, in a rotating order, suggest a move for the team. A player cannot suggest a move that has already been proposed by another player in the current round.2. The engine analyzes all suggested moves and selects the one that results in the worst possible evaluation for the team (the minimum Stockfish score).3. The selected weakest move is executed on the board.4. The player who suggested this move earns 1 point.5. The random-move bot makes a random move in response. Game End ConditionsMain Condition: As soon as any player reaches 8 points, the game stops immediately, and that player is declared the winner.Early Termination: If the player team is checkmated by the random-move bot, or accidentally checkmates the bot, the game ends immediately. The player with the highest number of points at that moment is declared the winner. Oh, I almost forgot...Before the first move, each player contributes an equal amount to the prize pool. The ultimate winner doesn't just get the glory — they take home the entire cash prize!

a friend of mine has told me about a "cheat chess" - you can break chess rules, as long as you can somehow justify your cheating and the other person accepts. what do you think of adding it??

Newbie vs Newbie Comeback

(Pawn move like knights, promote to every piece except the general which here is the king and even real chess pieces and yes that includes the real king)

bug

Hello!🤗.

Errrrr what is that on the queen and y is it upside down???

so you span random objects but you have 10 spawns its anything

Royal Shield: Matrimonial Chess“In Royal Shield: Matrimonial Chess, the King lives as long as his Queen reigns!” Hi everyone, I’d like to share a custom variant idea called Royal Shield: Matrimonial Chess. It keeps the feel of standard chess but adds a dramatic twist: Core Rule The king cannot be captured or checkmated as long as at least one queen remains on that player’s side. Checks still apply. The king can be put in check, but while in check, all of that player’s queens are frozen until the king escapes.Pawn promotion: Promoting to a queen restores the Royal Shield if all queens were previously lost. Why It’s Fun Protecting your queen(s) becomes critical—you can’t win until every enemy queen is gone.Checks become a weapon to paralyze the opponent’s queen(s) rather than rushing for mate.Late-game pawn promotions can swing a lost position back to safety. ExampleA player down material but with a single queen survives a normal mating attack. The opponent must first capture the queen while using checks to freeze it, creating a completely new layer of strategy.  I’d love feedback from players and staff—does this sound like a variant you’d enjoy? Thanks for reading,Kevedes

Hi everyone, I've played a lot of horde chess games. Every game had the result that black won! The side can easily win by sacrifice rooks, bishops and knights so that the queen kill the back rank. Have you ever won by checkmate or got stalemate, as white??

What do u think are underrated variants tell me in the comments 

we can remake the old style of chess pieces, okay? I think the new type of piece is better but I still prefer the old one because it has been with the player for a long time. This is just my opinion. What do you think?😶

Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to figure this out, but can’t quite get it. For example, if I wanted to seek a King of the Hill game, is there a way to look for both 1-minute and 3-minute games at the same time, like how I could do in the regular Play section? So far, I’ve only managed it by cancelling the original seek and then starting a new one. Probably just me not being familiar with how the Variants server is set up, but I thought I’d ask here. Thanks in advance for any help 🙂 @JosephReidNZ ♟