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Please help testing when you’re free! Thanks! (Submissions with last testing game date ‘/‘ (=none) are recommended to be tested first!) (And remember to put the game links in the forums!!! Or else I can’t see some of them and this will be wrong!)) To Variants Archive VU ID + Name Type (N=NCV, E=NEV, W=WoF, C=C8, V=ViI, EB=Event-based Tag (inactive) S=Special Tag) (+n / =0 / -n) +/=/- (~k) Last Testing Game Submit Date #10034 Solstice N -2 (+-===+---) 2026-4-6 2026-3-2 #10041 Chillagers Chess  N +3 (+++) 2026-4-6 2026-4-6 #10043 Soldiers Checkers  W +2+~2 (++==) 2026-4-23 2026-4-12 #10044 The Immortal Knight  W 0+~0 (==) / 2026-4-12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ #10 Heavy and Frail W -1+~1(+--==+-) 2026-4-10 2026-2-11 #12 Resurrections W +1+~1 (=++=-=) 2026-4-13 2026-2-15 #27 Castles and breakthroughs C +2 (++) 2026-4-10 2026-3-1 #30 Battle of the Pawns W  -2 (v.1: --; v.2: /) 2026-4-8 2026-3-7 #44 1984 W -2-~1 (-=-) 2026-4-10 2026-3-25 #49 Crazy Crypt N / W -1-~1 (+=--) 2026-4-7 2026-4-5 #50 Explosive Chaos W +3+~1 (+++=) 2026-4-21 2026-4-5 #51 Dragon's Castle W -2 (--) 2026-4-8 2026-4-6 #52 Tax Evasion W -1-~1 (-=) 2026-4-21 2026-4-12 Last Updated on: 2026-4-22 PS: Most of the games are tested on Sundays lol Dates: Dec 2025 Jan 2026 Feb 2026 Mar 2026 Apr 2026 Age: ≤20d, 21d - 40d, 41d - 60d, 61d - 80d, 81d - 100d, >100d List of UR variant types NCV: 6 NEV: 0 WoF: 13 C8: 2 ViI: 0 EB: 0 S: 0 Total: 21 Today's Update Panel: (All times are GMT) (Really appreciate the help from @Nyutixbrother for updating this!!! so i can be lazy lol) 2026-4-22: Accepted: Jianwu (#10017), Wild (#10039) Declined: Unlock the Attackers (#20), Miniest house (#53) Soldiers Checkers: +2 -> +2+~2 Explosive Chaos: +1 -> +3+~1 Tax Evasion: / -> -1-~1

Submit your puzzles here!These puzzles can be: Puzzles based on a certain listed variants Puzzles based on a certain custom variants Puzzles of Variants in Imagination Puzzle Variants Good luck and have fun!These puzzles would be added into Variants Playing after there're enough puzzles, We'll also develop a complete Puzzle system. You aren't meant to solve puzzles there, only puzzles submitting is allowed! Deleting comments on the forum isn't allowed, except some harmful ones.

Since submission list is gone, i made this.  An archive of all accepted/declined variants (not auto-added ones) To Under Review Submissions Note: Please help me find the missing variants! post a comment with a link the the missing variant. 5 points in https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/community-challenges for each one Pre-VU #10002 Grand Cloister  Accepted (WoF) #10003 The Cellar Accepted (WoF) #10004 Monster Chess Declined (NCV) #10007 Fuerzas Desiguales Accepted (NCV) #10009 Solacean Solitude Accepted (NCV) #10010 Little Star Accepted (NCV) #10011 Magic Detonation Accepted (NCV) #10012 Collision Course Declined (WoF) #10013 Declined (NCV) Da Firewall #10014 Delta's Campmate Accepted (WoF) #10015 Villagers Atomic Declined (NCV) #10018 Yolanda Accepted (WoF) #10019 Fuerzas Mysterioas Declined (NCV) #10020 Declined (WoF) Pillagers Chess #10021 Declined (WoF) Hilly Jungle 907 #10022 Declined (WoF) Hilly Jungle 1355 #10023 Don't Promote Declined (WoF) #10024 Idaho Potato Declined (WoF) #10025 Tini Atomici Declined (WoF) #10026 Saturn's Kings Declined (WoF) #10027 BricKing Declined (WoF) #10032 Underhalls Accepted (NCV) #10033 Declined (NCV) Andrew's Game #10035 Declined (WoF) Inheritance #10037 Complex Simplicity Accepted (Troll) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VU #1 The Orbit Declined (WoF) #2 Cowardly Royals Declined (NCV) #3 Finality Splendid Declined (NCV) #4 Tired Movers Accepted (Vii) #5 Remix Accepted (Vii) #6 The Long Path Declined (WoF) #8 J-Chess Declined (NCV) #9 Tiny Forest Accepted (WoF) #11 At The Table Declined (NCV) #14 Miner's Game Declined (NCV) #15 The King Hunt Declined (NCV) #16 Fiercest Accepted (WoF) #17 Yuepodro Declined (NCV) #18 Colorbound Complexity Declined (WoF) #19 Chaturango Declined (NCV) #22 Countdown Declined (NCV) #23 Camper's Game Declined (NCV) #24 Hao-Hao-Hao Declined (Vii) #25 Miner's Game Revision Declined (Vii) #26 Corn Field Crisis Declined (WoF) #29 Octadom RNM (NEV) #31 Mini Collision Declined (Troll) #32 67 Yolanda Declined (Troll) #33 Random Crazyness Declined (Troll) #34 Horses Declined (Troll) #35 4-4-2 Declined (Troll) #36 Ferzing Around Declined (WoF) #37 Hors Storm Accepted (Troll) #38 Knighted Chess RNM (NCV) #39 Hyper Chess Accepted (Troll) #40 hahahahaha Declined (Troll) #41 Big 67 Yolanda Declined (Troll) #42 Cursed Ahstandrez Declined (Troll) #45 Four Ferzes And A Horse Declined (Troll) #46 Horse Yolanda Declined (Troll) #47 OctadomRM Declined (NEV) #48 Abyss Of Solitude Declined (NCV) #52 Storm Of Queens Declined (WoF)

❗️❗️To submit a variant for review, follow these steps❗️❗️ You are limited to submit 2 variants per week (2 variants in a 168 hours time frame), unless you are submitting a <Pre-VU> variant. 1. Play 7 games of your variant. Unique players is not required, but strongly suggested. While it is not mandatory, it is recommended to play games with different experienced players, because low quality testing games cannot represent the same game-play as high quality ones.(For pre-VU submissions): You can provide one game's link instead. 2. Decide if your game type is:WoF: A fast-paced, fun variant to add in rotation arenas. These variants can be luck-based sometimes. These variants are only allowed to play in bullet, or hyper time control.NCV: A strategical, complicated, unique game to add in Playing server. NEV: A hyper-complicated variant to exist. These variants may be a little imbalanced in some situations.C8: A custom position that can be represent with analyze FEN. these variants should be played in club arenas.Modified: A modification to an another variant, whether accepted, declined, or not-submitted. 3. Write a useful and meaningful description. Requirement is at least 25 words. Though, a high-quality description often requires 150 words, mostly more. 4. Click "Create forum". Then, write a forum name in this format:1. </Tag/> <Type> <Variant Name> Tags of standard submissions: /Pre-VU/ - submission which was created before the existence of variants universe. /VU/  - submission which was created after the existence of variants universe. /Festival/ - submission which has created within a festival, along with a festival-related concept. Tags of Non-standard submissions: /ViI/ - Variants in Imagination. For those game-rules, and pieces, which does NOT exist in server, you are able to submit it with explanation. These variants shall be submitted with special screenshots, but no game is needed. Though, these variants are not suggested to submit often. If the variant is accepted, it will be played in daily/vote chess games.EXAMPLECustom rules/pieces sheet 2. Add your variants' ID3. Post your testing games, description4. add a screenshot5. add "Status: Under Review". Note: If your variant has multipule versions, please put the version you want to test as the first gameAfter that, put all the contents into the forum in this format listed down here. You can also check out an example of how it is done. After you submit your variant, we will update the status of your variant and will inform you when it will get a verdict.

Declined The variant was voted by a majority of the community to be declined. You can check the verdicts here. Once a verdict is delivered, please do not change it via forum editing. If the creator is stick to changing it, a warning will be delivered. In Variants Verdict Feed, the verdict exist as "Declined". Here's an example:  Accepted  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. (Custom Positions, ViI as well). You can check the verdicts here. There're three classifications of Acceptations: Additions: In need of an arena, based on the certain concept/event, creating the variant to be accepted. These variants will not receive a "Congratulations". Fake-Acceptations: In need of Community, these variants are auto-added. These variants will not receive a "Congratulations". Acceptations: Variants reviewed to be accepted normally. Pending Reply The variant has some minor issues that the community have fixed. The creator can choose to accept the revisions or decline them. You can check the verdicts here. For an example Self-Decline The creator don't want the variant to be added; or the creator/the community has find some minor issues.  These verdicts appear "Self-Declined" in Variants Verdict Feed. Nevertheless, it appears as "Declined" in Variants.Universe post. The decline message must be "Self-declined in (a thingy)" Requirements not Met The variant hasn't fit one of the rules: 7 testing games. a valid format. If want to get this variant into review, resubmitting is required when the verdict is delivered. For new creators, a waiting stage will be delivered first (usually last 2 weeks, before decline.)For the ones who haven't follow the rules multiple times, a warning will be delivered.It appears as "Requirements not Met" in variants verdict feed (red color). Auto-Declined The variants is way too similar to other variants, or way too luck-based, imbalanced to exist, judging by admins. There'll be also examples added here in case multiple declination of similar variants. It appears as "Declined" in Variants Verdict Feed.

This is a guide for members who have joined the SugarBlossom Variants Testing Team! Step 1. What to test? Wrong: Test the newest first, especially auto-declinable ones. This will likely result in an extreme imbalance between the Under Review time of the submissions. Correct: Test the not-well-tested ones in Under Review Submissions. Step 2. How to test? 1. The TC must be the same type as the variant's one. (e.g if the variant has a bullet tc any bullet works) 2. Test with experienced payers/players who have already tested the variant. Step 3. How to vote?We have 5 tags, listed below: (you can change your vote with further testing, of course.) +1 -> I analyzed the elements of the variant, and thinking that it should get accepted/ it is promising for a Pending Reply. -1 -> The variant has multiple issues found in testing, and I think it shouldn't get accepted. =0 -> The variant is unclear to me, for now; I just want to stay neutral there. +0 -> Not clear for now, but likely a promising variant. -0 -> Not clear for now, but likely hopeless. Testing Information: Hi! As the description goes, we are able to fairly vote here. There're currently 179 testers: New Custom Variants at +5/-3Wheel of Fortunes at +4/-3Modified Variants at +5/-2Custom Positions at +4/-3New Extra Variant at +6/-3Puzzles only need confirmation to acceptViI would be up to communicationIn case of meeting the requirements with positive votes, there is a 2 days waiting stage before acception

A forum to save all the accepted puzzles (puzzles which are difficult, and there're no issues). https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98311365(win)https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98311470(M6)https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98311606(M2)

Introducing... The Vicious Intergalactic Battle of the World! In this panic-inducing variant, you will find that your royal is trapped and only a wildebeest can reach it, so if a player's only wildebeest gets captured, they're in trouble. Both sides' wildebeests are trapped off the main board in enemy territory, so they have to get all the guardians out of reach before finally taking the wildebeest out to checkmate. Stone generals replace pawns on this warped-out-of-shape board. They can promote to powerful pieces like archbishops, but never to wildebeests. Every special rule in this variant is supposed to increase the players' anxiety, which is the very charm of the game!Game 1Game 2Game 3Game 4Game 5Game 6Game 7

#10043 WoF Soldier’s Checkers Author: CooolChicken (requested to submit via Discord) Gamerules: Crazyhouse, Any Capture, Setup 0,1, Stalemate loss, +3, Game of Points, Promotion Off Sergeants are worth 2 points. Submitted time control is 30s|2 Summary of description: Capture your own pieces to win by points (likely red has a large advantage but idrk). Sergeants are worth 2 points when you capture them but when you resign they give your opponent one point soldiers are one point but theyre also mostly sort of useless and get captured anyway. Capturing your own soldiers isnt that bad. Description Before anyone says there is a forced win/draw, there is GoP and stalemate loss, which are not present in the gamerule list above. --- Sergeants should always be worth 2 points. Except they are only worth one, same as the alifl. This variant uses a crazyhouse exploit with the promotedFrom tag to make them worth 2 points, as they should be. Setup 0,1 prevents pieces from being dropped back onto the board. Here's the objective of the game: "win by points". But you can win by not being stalemated first, or you can take your own pieces to get an advantage in points. Note: when resigning/claiming win, your opponent gets one point for each piece left on the board, only captured sergeants give 2 points. I think this is a long enough description. --- Games: (Games with an asterisk [*] contain rematches) Old ver (soldiers worth 2 points, fwfy) #85146664 #85146740 #85146837 #85146937 #85150027 #85150168* #85150621* #85151968 #85152110 #85153041* (features the fwfy) #85154538 Final version #85164803* #85165020 #85206935* #85209495* #85209668 #85231666 #85231719 #85231805* #85233476 #85234361 #85234720 #85234861 #85246315 Last game added: July 1, 2025 https://variants.world/posts/1855 https://www.chess.com/variants/game/85164803 (because yu-x doesn’t like vw links)

#52 WoF Tax Evasion Author: TimeVeteran Gamerules: Crazyhouse, Setup 0,9, Stalemate Loss, 7th=R Submitted time control is 1|2 Description: The variant I never got to submit… A simple and fun side-by-side armies WoF with very few pieces. It doesn’t have any amazing bot gimmicks and such, but I’ve always liked it’s gameplay because it kept it linear and straightforward. I never submitted this because I wanted my variants to push the boundaries of variant creation in chess.com, not further restrict better concepts. Thanks to CzarnyResorak567 and CooolChicken for testing this (a year ago lol). The name is what I called this project since the beginning. Inspired by the former top 1 ILL, it mainly had correlation to the actual variant due to the king chases. https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/85411358/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/85411445/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84540722/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84541210/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84541363/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84541612/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84541893/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84542015/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84542212/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84542400/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84542527/ https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/84542879/

ID #53 A mix of minihouse and tinyhouse with a stone general king. Checkmate happens very often in this game game 1: https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100666367/28/1 game 2 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100666248/14/1 game 3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100671597/21/1 game 4 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100741168/19/1  game 5, THIS GUY HUNG MATE IN 2 LOL https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100799477/3/1 game 6 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100799905/4/3 game 7 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/100799653/28/3 Description: none Status: Declined Really good first variant submission! While the idea of mixing minihouse and tinyhouse is interesting, we found out the execution is not unique enough. Experimenting more with the piece choice and maybe trying to work with gamerules would definitely enhance this variant. Another thing we want to point out is that promotion on the 4th rank to king is extremely overpowered and it breaks the synergy of pieces, making king royals and pawns worth a lot more than ferzes and wazirs, making the gameplay dependent on fast promotion. Don't get sad, we will be happy to see a revision of this!

P.S. This variant was submitted by cooolchicken from the discord server Here is my last variant that I never got to submit... variants.universe post #50TC: 30s | 3Gamerules: 8-9+ Atomic Crazy CTK Bare 10th=FW Game links:[game 1](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/87128103/0/1) + rematch (no bpr)[game 2](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/87215226/0/1) + rematches[game 3](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/86936968/0/1) + rematch[game 4](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/86928445/51/1) + rematches[game 5](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/86937264/45/1) + rematches[game 6](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/87162526/36/1) + rematch[game 7](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/87169480/49/1)[game 8](https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/86810110/51/1) (wrong N+ and tc) Description:Atomic and Crazyhouse have always been my favorite gamerules. Yet no accepted variant has crazy atomic. It was called one of those forbidden combinations, just like crazy giveaway before forsaken city.I still like this variant more than anything else I've made-- including phantom rooks...Every last piece in this game is important:royal X - It was obvious from the beginning that crazy atomic needed an unexplodeable royal. Otherwise drop forks would be way too powerful with even ferzes or wazirs. With the sleepy royal trend, a royal brick was perfect.Berolinas - They can't fork, but they are hard to block, leading to dynamic and open pawn structures. The dead berolina prevents pawn drop spam attacks. It also allows pieces to capture berolinas to fix badly positioned pieces or gain small advantages of one pawn.Sergeant - Unlike other pieces, it cant be exploded. But it can still be placed down after it captures something. It can sneak through the lines of berolinas, or get dropped within a clump of pieces to fork them. A deadly attacking piece that can also promote to continue an attack.Ferz/Wazir - These small pieces are almost essential in any small-sized variant with weak pieces. They can be used for a variety of defensive or offensive reasons including blocking key squares or checking the opposing royal brick every other turn - possibly with the help of a xiangqi horse. The ferz is especially useful for defending against series of checks from the alibaba-rider.Xiangqi Horse - This piece can deliver discovered checks on the brick with the help of a ferz, wazir, or sergeant. Required in one of two ways to deliver a check every move. It gets trapped easily and may become an important piece to win.Alfil-Rider - Has this piece ever been used in another variant? Thats another thing that makes this variant unique. The Alfil-rider is triple-colorblind and can only access a very limited amount of squares. But here, it is the only sliding piece, and can be used to deliver checks once every move all by itself if positioned to go between two specific squares. It probably does not have any defensive capabilities... Status: Under Review

Variants.Universe ID #10017 WoF JianwuTime Control: VariedGame-rules: =F, Crazyhouse, Stalemate loss Games: Game 1   Game 2   Game 3   Game 4   Game 5   Game 6   Game 7 Description: by @Dan-kyu_System Status: Accepted Nice Submission!

In this custom gamerule, crazyhouse must be on. You have to capture a piece with a specific other piece to place down the captured piece.Here is The Hors Variant, but many pieces replaced with alfils., and crazyhouse. If you capture a Hors with an Alfil, you can place it back down but if you take a hors with a different piece, it is gone from the game. Status: Self-Declined Self-Declined by author in comments

Variants.Universe ID #10038 WoF why Time Control: 30s|1D https://www.chess.com/variants/game/95904709 https://variants.world/posts/10274 Ok, so this is an alternative name for this. I hearD that troll tag isn't avialable noW, but i Was Waiting to submit it on VW, Which is Done on April 1st, the variant Was maDe Way before that. If this can't be a troll variant, just treat it as a normal submission cause it's playable Accepted  Extremely nice take on pocket chess+KoTH concept! The use of the pieces, dragons, camels, creates both nice hill defense and dynamic tactics; both sides have various chances of getting KoTH through castling and natural hill rush strategies. These elements flows together to create a balanced, simultaneously fun game!

Variants.Universe ID #10034 NCV Solstice Time control: 10 min Gamerules: Crazyhouse, 7 freeze spells with 3 move cooldown, sacred royal, 10=Q Games in https://variants.world/posts/1817 Description: This is an NCV, witha  very similar concept as Solarion. If deemed too similar to be accepted, delist Solarion if you wish. Thanks. May the variant speak itself. I am resubmitting this variants for @imchesspro0930 because he asked me in my dms to submit to vu all variants and concepts he made for the past 12 months. Status: Under Review

VU ID: #48  https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98093246/67/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98177764/10/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98092999/24/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98092723/20/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/98007081/6/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/97999842/21/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/97999207/5/1 Description: Disclaimer- I don't really expect this to be accepted, but I thought it would be interesting to submit my first variant to Variants.Universe and see how the testing system works and maybe take some inspiration from it, let's see.Anyways, this is a somewhat kinda revision to my autodeclined post The Ripple Effect (check VW if you want to see it), it has a lot of jump spells and bricks etc. etc. I won't yap a lot here feel free to figure out the strats and stuff yourself.The required version to play is this one. Have fun testing it. am too lazy to add a screenshot Status: Declined Self-declined by author.

Variants.Universe post ID 10010 NCV Little Star Time control: 2 | 1 Game-rules: 9th=D, KotH, Fatal Capture, Game of Points, Stalement Loss I'm lazyy. Description: by @MistMint, inspired by @VarostTheFlail Status: Accepted Great submission! Although seemingly lack of complexity, we found that the variant is actually surprisingly complicated, balanced and strategical with further study. The hill-rush in closed position, promotion advancement, breakthroughs of pawns, dynamic of pieces made into an extremely thoughtful game together. We're looking forward to more of your submissions!

#10038 WoF Wild (author: cooolchicken) https://www.chess.com/variants/game/86158237 Description: This position allows the wildebeests to start further apart, which allows more move variety in the first few moves. Its also symmetrical which looks nice, but has no forced wins by mirroring. Again, I'm 101% sure that no one will memorize the forced win.  Status: Accepted Nice concept! The variant will be added into the rotation with multiple positions (which will be selected by you).

Variants.Universe ID 12Gamerules: Crazyhouse with soldiers disability, Regicide, SM lose, GoP, Promotion 7th=RTime control: 1+3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/96574020/0/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/96403223/35/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/92476266/0/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/92151253/52/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/92143432/72/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/96848485 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/96967988 Description: *I submitted this to clean my templates (and add a spammed UR)*Name is Celeste reference (Naming trend) Revision of QigrnennreneCrnenrenrernenennenrity, kind of similar to Minihouse, but idk