Community variant

Camel Chess

A variant of chess that uses Wildebeest's Camel and Wildebeest in place of the Bishop and Queen, along with triple-stepping Pawns.

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.

Uploaded by: Eventlesstew
Visibility: public
Status: active

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: king (k), rook (r), knight (n), pawn (p), custom piece 1 (c) and custom piece 2 (w).
Piece c is a custom piece with Betza movement `C`.
Piece w is a custom piece with Betza movement `CN`.

Move rules

Some pawns may make a triple-step move from the configured starting regions.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: custom piece 2 (w) 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.

Custom piece 1 (C) movement C

Custom piece 2 (W) movement CN

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[camel_chess:chess]

tripleStepRegionWhite = *1 *2
doubleStepRegionWhite = *1 *2 *3
tripleStepRegionBlack = *8 *7
doubleStepRegionBlack = *8 *7 *6

promotionPieceTypes = wr

customPiece1 = c:C
customPiece2 = w:CN

pieceToCharTable = PNBRQ..........WC....Kpnbrq..........wc....k
startFen = rncwkcnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNCWKCNR w KQkq - 0 1