Community variant
Capablanca Centaur/Leopard
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
- The variant supports Chess960-style castling.
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), Leopard (j) and Centaur (g).
- Leopard (j) is a custom piece with Betza movement `F2N`.
- Centaur (g) is a custom piece with Betza movement `KN`.
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: Centaur (g), Leopard (j), knight (n), bishop (b), rook (r) and queen (q).
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.
F2N
KN
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[capablancacentaur1:chess]
# pychessPieces = k,q,r,b,n,p,j,g
maxFile = 10
maxRank = 8
chess960 = true
customPiece1 = j:F2N
customPiece2 = g:KN
startFen = rnbqjkgbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBQJKGBNR w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = gjnbrq