Community variant

Chess 5x5

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: Astowa
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 position

Pieces and movement

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

Move rules

Castling is not allowed.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[chess_5x5:chess]
variantTemplate = fairy
castling = false

# Oficjalne ustawienie wymiarów planszy 3x3 w Fairy-Stockfish
maxFile = 5
maxRank = 5

# Oficjalne mapowanie, aby figury wyglądały normalnie w interfejsie PyChess

# Legalny FEN dopasowany do wymiarów 3x3 (używamy standardowych figur)
startFen = rbknq/ppppp/5/PPPPP/RBKNQ w - - 0 1