Community variant

capablanca chess plus

Chancellor and archbishop now gain king movement.

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: brotopskeu_46227
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `capablanca` 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), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), Herorine (h) and Popess (o).
Herorine (h) is a custom piece with Betza movement `RNF`.
Popess (o) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BNW`.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: rook (r), knight (n), bishop (b), queen (q), Popess (o) and Herorine (h).

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.

Herorine (H) movement

RNF

Popess (O) movement

BNW

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[capablanchachessplus:capablanca]
customPiece1 = h:RNF
customPiece2 = o:BNW
startFen = rnobqkbhnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNOBQKBHNR w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = rnbqoh