Community variant
arch8
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.
Generated rule overview
This variant inherits its base rules from `fairy` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p) and piece (a).
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: rook (r), knight (n), bishop (b) and piece (a).
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[arch8:fairy]
startFen = rnbakbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBAKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = r n b a