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Community variant

Capture differently

You can't capture a piece with the same piece type
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
Rom142857
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 positionRNBQKBNRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPRNBQKBNR
Default starting position

Pieces and movement

  • The piece set used on the board is: commoner (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).

Capture effects

  • Some piece types cannot capture matching immune pieces.

Winning and losing

  • An extinction rule is active: reaching 0 remaining piece(s) k causes a loss for the side to move.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[capture_differently:chess]
castlingKingPiece = k
commoner = k
extinctionPieceTypes = k
extinctionValue = loss
mutuallyImmuneTypes = kpnrbq