Community variant
Capablanca Makruk
Capablanca Makruk is a fairy chess hybrid that blends the movement and board dimensions of Capablanca Chess (a 10ร8 board featuring knight-compound pieces) with the core piece mechanics and rule set of Makruk (Thai Chess).
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 `makruk` 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), Archbishop (a), Chancellor (c) and custom piece 3 (f).
- Archbishop (a) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NFfW`.
- Chancellor (c) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NR`.
- custom piece 3 (f) is a custom piece with Betza movement `F`.
- Queen (q) is a custom piece with Betza movement `F`.
- Bishop (b) is a custom piece with Betza movement `Ffw`.
Promotion
- Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all squares on rank 6 and the promotion region for Black is all squares on rank 3.
- The pieces that can promote are: Pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: custom piece 3 (f).
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.
NFfW
NR
F
F
Ffw
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[caparkuk:makruk]
customPiece1 = a:NFfW
customPiece2 = c:NR
customPiece3 = f:F
customPiece4 = q:F
customPiece5 = b:Ffw
maxFile = 10
maxRank = 8
promotionRegionWhite = *6
promotionRegionBlack = *3
startFen = rnakqbcbnr/10/pppppppppp/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/10/RNAKQBCBNR w - - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = F