Community variant
capitalistspartan
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 `spartan` 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), piece (c), piece (w), piece (h), piece (l), piece (g), custom piece 4 (u) and custom piece 5 (v).
- custom piece 4 (u) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfW`.
- custom piece 5 (v) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfW`.
Promotion
- Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all the ranks from 1 to 8 and the promotion region for Black is all the ranks from 1 to 8.
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p), custom piece 4 (u), piece (h) and custom piece 5 (v).
- Promotion choices are both sides: no pieces.
- Fixed promotion mappings: p promotes to u, u promotes to q, h promotes to v and v promotes to w.
- Pawn promotion is optional where promotion is legal.
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.
mfW
mfW
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[capitalistspartan:spartan]
customPiece4 = u:mfW
customPiece5 = v:mfW
promotedPieceType = p:u u:q h:v v:w
promotionPieceTypes = -
mandatoryPawnPromotion = false
promotionRegionWhite = *1 *2 *3 *4 *5 *6 *7 *8
promotionRegionBlack = *1 *2 *3 *4 *5 *6 *7 *8
# pychessPieces = k,q,r,b,n,p,g,w,h,l,c,u,v,+u,+v