Community variant
Chancellor vs archbishop
White get chancellor and black get archbishop and each player has commonder.inspired by couchtomato87 enneachess.
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
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 commoner (o).
Promotion
- Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all squares on rank 10 and the promotion region for Black is all squares on rank 1.
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are White: knight (n), bishop (b), rook (r), queen (q), Chancellor (c) and commoner (o) and Black: knight (n), bishop (b), rook (r), queen (q), Archbishop (a) and commoner (o).
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[chancellorvsarchbishop:chess]
maxFile = 10
maxRank = 10
commoner = o
chancellor = c
archbishop = a
castlingKingsideFile = h
castlingQueensideFile = d
startFen = rnbqakobnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBQCKOBNR w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypesWhite = nbrqco
promotionPieceTypesBlack = nbrqao
promotionRegionWhite = *10
promotionRegionBlack = *1