The Chess Variants Club

Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.

Choose the chess variant you'd like to play sorted by piece sets:

... or sorted by board size:



Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package.

This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles that will entertain you and your friends for thousands of hours. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.

Here is the list of Chess Variants available:


  • Demi-Chess;
  • Dunsany's Chess;
  • Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess);
  • Los Alamos Chess;
  • Atomic Chess;
  • Silverman Chess;
  • Microchess;
  • Diana chess;
  • Circe Chess;
  • Dunsany's Chess;
  • 3-Checks Chess;
  • Knight Supreme Chess;
  • The Pawns Game;
  • Aleut Chess.

Key Features:

  • Play against the computer or with your friends (local multiplayer or Remote Play Together);
  • Originally composed soundtrack to help you relax and concentrate;
  • 12 Chess Variants to learn and play;
  • More than 400 chess puzzles to solve (Classical Chess, Atomic Chess, 3-Checks Chess, Micro-Chess, Demi-Chess, Diana Chess, Circe Chess, and more!);

Hundreds of chess puzzles available:

Play a chess match remotely with a friend, with Remote Play Together.


  • Invite your friend to play with you. He/she doesn't need to have a Steam account - see more in Remote Play, on Steam;
  • The remote player can use the shared mouse, the shared keyboard, or a gamepad (it works for a limited set of controller models).
  • The input devices to be shared are defined by the player who made the invitation and is running the game;
  • The definition of which input device will be used by which player is made at the start of each match.