Vote for November's Golden Variants (2025)! - Chess Forums

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Post for the previous month's vote:
https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/vote-for-octobers-golden-variants-2025

Not sure on what some of the terms in this post mean? Have any other questions? See any typos? Feel free to ask and comment below!

(Scroll down to the start of the bold text if you want to know how to vote without reading my entire post 😀)

Welcome to the second-to-last month of the year, Custom Variants!

There is nothing much to say currently as the December post should be coming out as well as soon as possible, so this post will be very lackluster in terms of content in this section. Information like some of the current NCV/WoF reviewing stats will be included in that post as well, so there's no point really in repeating it here.

However, some of you may be wondering why this post (again) took so long to come out, and it relates to the topic of Platinum Variant voting; since we have essentially run out of player-made variants in the Custom section to feature, we have mostly been running Golden Fortune arenas (which are not eligible for qualification to Platinum Variant voting) and FFA/Teams SP variants. Last month (linked above), we mentioned that next year, we will heavily consider making Golden Variant every 2 weeks instead of 1, which we will still very likely be going forward with, so we can focus more on the aforementioned FFA/Teams variants as well as the variants we listed as delete-candidates in the April update this year.

At the moment, there are 4 remaining slots for Platinum Variant-eligible variants (excluding the week right before the date of the event) and there have been 2 variants in the quarter currently eligible, for a total of 6 by December 19. Since it would be pretty pointless to just cut out 1 variant, we'll simply be including all 6 as possible candidates in the vote.

With that, here's the (very late) vote for this month!

Current Format:

As with other months, much of the important info regarding format has been consolidated into this pinned thread here: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/2025-golden-variant-schedule

Please read this in full! On top of general info, all previously selected variants, a link to last year's schedule, as well as links to previous votes are also included in this page.

What you're voting for:

Golden Variant arenas starting on November 21 and 28 (Weeks 47 and 48 on the schedule, linked above) at 4 PM PST (midnight UTC the following day)
Both arenas will be 72-hour arenas featuring a 4P FFA or Teams variant in Self-Partner setting (both players control two colors)

The voting process:

Two comments will be posted below with options for voting.
Simply react to the comment with a variant's designated icon to vote for a variant.
You may vote for more than one variant in each of the votes!
For each vote, the winners with the most votes will be the variants that will be featured for this month.
The voting for the Week 47 arena will end on November 21, 23 UTC
The voting for the Week 48 arena will end on November 24, 0 UTC

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