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Hi! A while ago, I was eligible to appeal my ban from the Custom Variants Club and https://variants.world. It has now been three months since I DMed the appeal to @qilp, and I have still not received any update about it whatsoever. I genuinely want to rejoin the Variants community again, especially so I can meet with the rest of community that I have missed for a while. I would also like to submit some of my original variant creations that I never had the chance to submit, especially because I was trying to focus on creating fun and unique variants this year, rather than aiming to get as much accepts as possible. I have tried contacting several admins directly, such as @qilp and @BN1208, but I haven't received any official response after three months, even when they were online. I have kept my appeal available through a private Pastebin link, but I am not sure whether I am allowed to repost it here or not, but I am happy to share it if it is allowed. Overall, I really hope I can get back onto Custom Variants before Christmas. A lot has changed throughout the Variants community since February, and I'd like the chance to be part of it again.

https://www.chess.com/variants/crazyhouse/game/91603308/16/1 In this game of crazyhouse, after my opponent brought their king next to my knight, I noticed that I could play the double check with my Queen and Knight similar to when preparing to a smothered mate.  In this case I obviously couldn’t sack my queen as that wouldn’t lead to checkmate, and so in standard chess the double check wouldn’t lead to any checkmate.  Because it was crazyhouse however I could drop my reserve rook, forcing the enemy queen to take it, and then I could take the enemy queen for checkmate, which is in contrast to how in a smothered mate I would be sacrificing my queen.

Impulschach: A Chess Variant of Chain ReactionsThe goal is simple, but the path to victory is anything but. The GoalWin instantly by either: 1. Capturing the opponent's King.2. Forcing an opponent's pawn onto your royal square (e1 for White, e8 for Black) using the Impulse's ability. No Check, No MateForget everything you know about check and checkmate. They don't exist here. There is also no castling and no en passant. You can simply capture the king if it's left undefended. The Special PiecesYou start with the standard setup, but your Queen and both Knights are replaced. The Impulse (I) Movement: Moves and captures like a standard Queen. Ability - Resonance Shift: After the Impulse moves, it immediately shifts all of your opponent's pawns. Each pawn is shifted one square towards its promotion rank (straight or diagonally forward) onto an empty square. If no move is possible, it stays. Pawns are processed by file, from left-to-right or right-to-left, your choice. If an opponent's pawn reaches your back rank (1st for White, 8th for Black), it transforms into your piece based on its file: a-file/h-file -> Rook; b-file/g-file -> Catalyst; c-file/f-file -> Bishop; d-file -> Impulse; e-file -> YOU WIN INSTANTLY. The Catalyst (C) Movement: Moves and captures like a standard Knight. Ability - Synchronization: After the Catalyst moves, if it attacks any of your own pieces (except another Catalyst), those pieces are activated. You may then make one extra move with each activated piece, in any order you choose. If a piece has no legal move, it is skipped. This can create powerful chains. For example, activating your Impulse allows you to move it and trigger its full Resonance Shift ability. NotesThe Impulses cannot capture each other. This ensures the game's core mechanic remains active. With two Catalysts, board awareness is crucial. Be careful not to block their "line of sight" to your own pieces with your other units! This is a game of improvisation, not memorization. You must react to the ever-changing board state created by chain reactions. More detailed about Impulschach here.

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GravitaturThe Gravitatur is a neutral fairy piece that does not belong to either player. It is the embodiment of the force of gravity, temporarily manifesting on the chessboard. Its function is to radically and instantly alter the position, creating new tactical opportunities and threats. The Gravitatur does not move or capture pieces. Instead, it pulls them toward itself. When the Gravitatur appears on the board, it immediately exerts its effect in all eight directions (like a chess Queen). All pieces of both players standing on squares within the Gravitatur's area of activity (within its line of sight) are pulled directly toward it. Upon completion of the Attraction, they must end up on squares immediately adjacent to it. For example:The start of the game, and White summons the Gravitatur on the d4 square: The Gravitatur pulls all pieces within its line of sight toward itself: After this, the Gravitatur is removed from the board, and now White must make their move in the game: Rules for Summoning the GravitaturBefore each of their turns, a player attempts to summon the Gravitatur onto the board. Step 1: Determining CoordinatesThe player makes two rolls of an octahedral dice (d8):The first roll determines the vertical (file).The second roll determines the horizontal (rank). The vertical and horizontal values determined by the rolls set the epicenter of the gravitational anomaly—the point where the Gravitatur appears. In other words, the pair of numbers (Vertical, Horizontal) rolled on the dice specifies the square for placing the Gravitatur. Each player's coordinate system starts from their own bottom-left corner of the board. For the White player: a roll of (1,1) = square a1, a roll of (1,2) = square a2, and so on.For the Black player: a roll of (1,1) = square h8, a roll of (1,2) = square h7, and so on. Thus, the coordinate system for Black is a mirror image of White's system relative to the center of the board.The game board becomes a duality of perspectives, where the vertical and horizontal rows are relative, but the rules are absolute. Step 2: Placement on the BoardThe player places the Gravitatur on the square determined by the rolled coordinates.If that square is occupied, the summoning fails, and the Gravitatur does not appear that turn. Step 3: Turn SequenceSummoning: The player rolls the dice and (if successful) places the Gravitatur.Effect: The immediate attraction of all available pieces to the Gravitatur occurs.Removal: The Gravitatur is immediately removed from the board.Move: The player performs their Main Move according to the rules of the game (choosing one of the three available actions: Standard Move, Drop from Reserve, or King Teleportation). GAME RULES The game is played on a standard 8x8 chessboard with a standard chess set, plus one additional piece—the Gravitatur.The initial position corresponds to the standard starting position of classical chess, with one exception: the Black King is placed on d8 and the Black Queen is placed on e8. All pieces move and capture according to standard chess rules. However, the concepts of check, checkmate, castling, and en passant do not exist in this game. The King is not a sacred piece and can be captured like any other. The ultimate and only goal is the physical capture of the opponent's King. Player's Main MoveAfter summoning the Gravitatur (the dice roll and the potential placement or failure to place it), the player performs ONE of the following three actions:Standard Move: The player moves or captures with any of their pieces. If a piece captures an enemy piece, the captured piece is sent to its owner's reserve. For example, if a White piece captures a Black Knight, that Knight is sent to Black's reserve. Drop from Reserve: The player returns one of their pieces from the reserve (excluding pawns and the Archon) to any free square on their first rank (the 1st rank for White, the 8th rank for Black). King Teleportation: The player swaps the positions of their King with any other of their own pieces on the board (excluding pawns). Teleportation can be used an unlimited number of times per game. Special Rules and Pawn PromotionReserve: All captured pieces (except for pawns and Archons) are sent to their owner's reserve and can be returned to the board. Pawn Promotion: A pawn that reaches the final rank must be promoted to an Archon(Amazon). The Archon moves and captures as a Queen + Knight. A captured Archon is permanently removed from the game and does not return to the reserve. Goal of the GameTo capture the opponent's King. The player who manages to do this first wins the game. Quick Glossary for ReferenceGravitatur: A neutral elemental piece. Summoned by a D8 roll, it pulls all pieces toward itself and then vanishes.Reserve: The "graveyard" for pieces, from where they can be returned to your first rank.Archon (Amazon): A Super-Queen (Queen + Knight). The only option for pawn promotion. Destroyed permanently when captured.Teleportation: The instant swapping of your King with any of your other pieces (except pawns). More detailed about Gravitatur here

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??

https://www.chess.com/variants/setup-chess/game/90766876/18/3 In this game of setup chess I found that my opponent placed their king, after placing all their other pieces, such that I could place a queen on the same file as the king, which initially I thought was checkmate, given that my opponent would need to pass their turn, but turned out it was just check.  I then placed another queen on the same diagonal as the enemy king knowing that it was double check so that the king would need to move during the moving stage of the game, and then I just placed another queen and a rook to cut off the enemy kings escape squares for checkmate.

How do i submit my variants on variants world

i have made many good moves

i have made many good moves

Guess from which opening comes this position

So I was thinking one day.. if there was a variant for Anti-chess (compulsory to capture pieces), then shouldn't be there a variant that includes where capturing isn't allowed? Let me explain (feel free to add on ideas in the comments to revise my version!): I introduce you to--> Uncle chess! Yes. It comes from the pronounciation of 'anti' (auntie) (aan-tee). If there's an aunt then obviously there should be an uncle LOL! So it's simple: no captures! They're basically stones made of the hardest metal haha, no possible way of capturing. The goal is to checkmate the king. Now you may ask, "So how are we going to checkmate them if capturing isn't allowed?" Well it's the same rules as in normal chess: The king cannot be in danger. If in danger must be stepped aback, blocked. BUT no captures! Here's a few examples: Now, the chances of a draw are high if these don't happen (checkmate will most likely be a very rare case like a stalemate among expertise players). That's why I also introduce a 75-move rule!  1. Captures aren't allowed, so if any of the players do not end the game within 75 moves the game automatically becomes a draw.  2. If each pawn moved up to the end of the board (both sides), it would probably take about 10 moves.  3. Draws do not gain rating. They instead lose rating, but not that much like a loss. This is to prevent such types of positions like: So that's it I guess. Just an idea, because I tried it out by playing with a friend of mine and it was confusing at first but it was nice! I won though by checkmate, so if you think this is basically just a perfect draw situation, don't think like that! There mayyyy be some sorta way this idea type variant could work (I personally think it would :3)

What do people think of a 72 cell (8Wx9H or 9Wx8H) chessboard? Factually, it is presumed as an early Shogi variant from the 12th century. So using one for a modern variant is akin to reviving a defunct usage. As strange as it now looks, I personally see it as harmonious with the local variants of East Asia, 9x9 Shogi in Japan and 9Wx10H Xiangqi~Janggi in China, Vietnam And Korea. It is also a logical minimum for a variant with extra pieces, even from a historical perspective.N. B. This thought practically presumes using a 9Wx8H orientation. I see a compromise between Musketeer Chess and classical 10x8 variants. Except I don’t really need to have two extra unique pieces. However, this is not necessarily to have the new piece on the third central file, which would be problematic.... especially if it were not a new (anti)colorbound piece. Having a pair of the same new piece with a diagonal step.... not literally two Ferzes, which would be little better than adding three pawns, also conserves the concept of having a fianchetto on either side as it is in Chess.

Before the queen was introduced we had the advisor, a piece which can only move one space in any diagonal direction. It's weird how this historically accurate variant to chess doesn't exist as a preset, despite it being entirely possible with the use of the ferz.

In this variant, both players have to move their kings closer to each other every 5th move, until they are as close as they can legally be. At no point are they allowed to move their kings further away than the closest they have been at any point during the game. Distance is calculated as king moves, so castling is still acceptable, as diagonal moves still allow a king to reach the other king in the same number of moves as orthogonal moves, however, if a player's king is not able to meet the requirement of moving one square closer to the other king (measured in king moves) when a mandatory king move comes around (up until the kings cannot legally move any closer to each other), that player automatically loses. Once the kings are as close as they can legally be, the game continues normally until checkmate, except that the kings are locked at the same distance from each other, unable to move further away.

Hello guys; I am currently creating a Variant resource-like blog; And I am trying to cover as much Variants as possible; I have done the no castling part for now; I would love to have your comments! https://www.chess.com/blog/1-c41-0

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!

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