Community variant
Archbishop Checkmate
Try to checkmate with just an Archbishop!
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 `chess` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k) and custom piece 1 (h).
- custom piece 1 (h) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BN`.
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.
BN
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[archbishop_checkmate1:chess]
pawn = -
knight = -
bishop = -
rook = -
queen = -
customPiece1 = h:BN
startFen = 4k3/8/8/8/8/8/8/3HK3 w - - 0 1