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Chess variants you can play free
Every variant here plays in your browser against a bot or a person, with no download and no account.
Chess with one setting pushed hard
These are in the Variants list when you play the bots.
- Blitz Brawl. Two minutes each, a tile whenever one is due, and only small rules.
- Card Sharks. No tiles and a calm sky, but a new card to draft every few moves.
- High Seas. Open water and a stormy sky. Wade in, stride across, or go under.
- Heartbreakers. Three hearts each and no guard rails. A fallen king is only a scratch.
- Treasure Hoard. A tile whenever one is due, and a bag with no bottom. No cards.
- Kingdom Come. The sky and the legendary deck redraw the map. Two hearts to see it out.
- Comeback Kids. Whoever is behind drafts every card, and often. Nobody stays down.
- Hot Potato. Plain chess at ten seconds a move. Do not hold on to it.
- Bouncy Castle. Bishops and queens bounce off the edge.
- Knight Riders. Seven knights a side. Everything jumps.
- Bishop's Council. Seven bishops a side. Watch the diagonals.
- Rook Towers. Seven rooks a side. Open files duel.
Chess with one big rule
- Rock paper scissors chess: Throwdown: Chess where every take is a throw.
- Immortal Snail chess: An unkillable snail hunts your king.
- Three-kings chess: King Reborn: Three kings a side. Take all three.
- Hidden piece chess: Masquerade: Chess with their faces hidden. Take the king.
- Secret King chess: Your king hides among your pawns.
- Impostor chess: One of their pieces secretly works for you.
Whole other games for the same pieces
- Chess football: Crown Cup: Chess football, five a side. First to five.
- Chess battle royale: Tumbledown: Chess battle royale on a falling island.
- 4-player chess: Last Crown: A king and four each. Last army wins.
- King of the Hill chess: Hold the glowing hill. First to fifteen.
- Chess tower defense: Fortress: Tower defense: your pieces shoot, the horde marches.
- Real-time chess: Crown Clash: Real time: drop pieces, strike their towers.