Community variant

Wives

This is a user-catalogued casual variant. Technical details such as board size, FEN, pieces, and hand rules are defined in the Fairy-Stockfish variants.ini block below.

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Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `chess` and overrides the settings shown below.

Board and setup

Default starting position

Pieces and movement

The piece set used on the board is: custom piece 5 (k), queen (q), custom piece 4 (r), custom piece 3 (b), custom piece 2 (n) and custom piece 1 (p).
custom piece 1 (p) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfWcfFiQfWcfF`.
custom piece 2 (n) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NiQN`.
custom piece 3 (b) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BiQB`.
custom piece 4 (r) is a custom piece with Betza movement `RiQR`.
custom piece 5 (k) is a custom piece with Betza movement `KiQK`.

Move rules

Castling is allowed.

Piece movement

These diagrams show custom pieces and known Fairy-Stockfish built-in fairy pieces from White's perspective on a compact preview board. Some special moves, especially hoppers and game-state-dependent moves, can still depend on blockers or game state.

Custom piece 1 (P) movement

mfWcfFiQfWcfF

Custom piece 2 (N) movement

NiQN

Custom piece 3 (B) movement

BiQB

Custom piece 4 (R) movement

RiQR

Custom piece 5 (K) movement

KiQK

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[all_q:chess]
maxFile = 8
maxRank = 8

# RE-CROWN THE KING & FIX CASTLING
king = k
castling = true
castlingRookPieces = r

# 1. THE PAWN
customPiece1 = p:mfWcfFiQfWcfF

# 2. THE KNIGHT
customPiece2 = n:NiQN

# 3. THE BISHOP
customPiece3 = b:BiQB

# 4. THE ROOK
customPiece4 = r:RiQR

# 5. THE KING
customPiece5 = k:KiQK

# 6. THE STARTING BOARD
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1