Community variant
Butt Chess
https://github.com/SebLague/Chess-Challenge/issues/507
not cannon move is Queen + Zebra move
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 `seirawan` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: King (k), Queen (q), Rook (r), Bishop (b), Knight (n), Pawn (p) and Buttock (u).
- Buttock (u) is a custom piece with Betza movement `QZ`.
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: Buttock (u).
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: Pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: Buttock (u), Queen (q), Bishop (b), Knight (n) and Rook (r).
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.
QZ
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[buttchess:seirawan]
customPiece1 = u:QZ
startFen=rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[Uu] w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes=uqbnr