Community variant

Chrząszczyżewoszyce chess

Variant in the spirit of Hoppel-Poppel and New Zealand, rooks capture like bishops, bishops capture like rooks. In the standard piece set piece at the bottom is how the piece moves, at the top is how it captures.

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: e-pluszak
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), custom piece 2 (r), custom piece 1 (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
custom piece 1 (b) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mBcR`.
custom piece 2 (r) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mRcB`.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are White: custom piece 1 (b), knight (n), custom piece 2 (r) and queen (q) and Black: custom piece 1 (b), knight (n), custom piece 2 (r) and queen (q).

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.

Custom piece 1 (B) movement

mBcR

Custom piece 2 (R) movement

mRcB

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[chrzaszcz:chess]
pieceToCharTable = PNBRQ..............Kpnbrq..............k
customPiece1 = b:mBcR
customPiece2 = r:mRcB
promotionPieceTypesWhite = bnrq
promotionPieceTypesBlack = bnrq
castlingRookPieces = r
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1