Community variant
Colorbound Clobberers Mirror
Betza's Chess with Different Armies Colorbound Clobberers Mirror match. Both players’ pieces, except Kings and Pawns, are replaced with new ones, illustrated below, always in this order: Rook, then Knight, then Bishop, then Queen replacement. Please read the variant definition.ini definition for detailed rules.
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), pawn (p), custom piece 3 (a), custom piece 4 (c), custom piece 2 (w) and custom piece 1 (d).
- custom piece 1 (d) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BD`.
- custom piece 2 (w) is a custom piece with Betza movement `WA`.
- custom piece 3 (a) is a custom piece with Betza movement `FAD`.
- custom piece 4 (c) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BN`.
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: custom piece 1 (d), custom piece 2 (w), custom piece 3 (a) and custom piece 4 (c).
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.
BD
WA
FAD
BN
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
# Rules are the same as in Chess with the following exceptions:
# Both players’ pieces, except Kings and Pawns, are replaced with new ones.
# For detailed piece descriptions, please read: https://www.chessvariants.com/unequal.dir/cwda.html
# Due FSF limitations and to the Bede being colorbound
# castling queenside requires the King to move 3 squares for both players
# unlike Betza’s original rules where only the Colorbound Clobberers have this rule.
Colorbound Clobberers Mirror
[clobberersmirror:chess]
customPiece1 = d:BD
customPiece2 = w:WA
customPiece3 = a:FAD
customPiece4 = c:BN
promotionPieceTypes = d w a c
castlingRookPieces = d
castlingQueensideFile = b
startFen = dwackawd/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/DWACKAWD w KQkq - 0 1