Variants Tierlist

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Hi everyone!

So I made this: https://www.chess.com/blog/Real-ChessMasterGS/variants-tier-list-3-years-later 

It's basically a tierlist of all of the non-gamerule variants (e.g., NCVs, historical variants, etc.), please judge me for the choices I made if you disagree, I want to see everyone's opinion

Avatar of BN1208

Naturally, Minihouse gets its own tier of course

Avatar of Storming2Knight

Nice, but why is every end at c tier

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jackityjackjack wrote:

Sorry, but S+ needs to be a bit bigger. There are so many amazing 2 player Variants.

S+ is basically just for favorites; previous 2 years I didn’t include it but it felt more appropriate to have it just for extra clarity

Avatar of Storming2Knight

In my opinion I think horde deserves to go in B or A tier

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Storming2Knight wrote:

In my opinion I think horde deserves to go in B or A tier

Horde is heavily unbalanced by nature, although some say that White has the advantage, most players will likely prefer Black. I've seen much lower rated players be able to decimate higher rated players because White needs to play a lot more precise. Nobody's gonna be going around changing the variant though since it's the accepted format.

Avatar of noahfavelo

I like this list, although I enjoy Sergeant's Checkers more.

Avatar of Storming2Knight

me too

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I made a gamerule tier list:

https://www.chess.com/blog/2bHNST/custom-variant-gamerule-tier-list