Community variant
Colorbound chess
Chess but EVERY piece is COLORBOUND!!!!!
Rule: same setup as chess.No piece is able to change the color of its squares, so they all are confined to certain half of the board – therefore half of your army can attack the opposite King and faces its defensive army, while another half is your defensive guard which counters the opposite attackers.All pieces here are the diagonal analogues of certain fairy pieces.
Bishop:identical to classic bishop.
Wizard: move like camel (knight 3x1) and ferz.
Laureate:It’s more commonly named FAD, which is abbreviated Betza move description of this piece, which combines moves of Ferz (1,1), Alfil (2,2, leaps two diagonally) and Dabbaba (2,0, leaps two directly). Though no piece can checkmate on its own, this one has the most mating potential.Normally, this is diagonal analogue of King with Dabbaba move, but that piece isn’t as popular as others. Full rule:https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/colorbound-chess
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), bishop (b), Pawn (p), Wizard (w), Laureate (l) and Dragon (d).
- Wizard (w) is a custom piece with Betza movement `CF`.
- Laureate (l) is a custom piece with Betza movement `FAD`.
- Dragon (d) is a custom piece with Betza movement `FD0`.
- Pawn (p) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfDcfF`.
- King (k) is a custom piece with Betza movement `DF`.
Promotion
- Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all the ranks from 8 to 7 and the promotion region for Black is all the ranks from 1 to 2.
- The pieces that can promote are: Pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: bishop (b), Wizard (w), Laureate (l) and Dragon (d).
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.
CF
FAD
FD0
mfDcfF
DF
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[colorboundchess4:chess]
# please note stockfish dosent support dabbaba rider so it make dragon pointless.
customPiece1 = w:CF
customPiece2 = l:FAD
customPiece3 = d:FD0
customPiece4 = p:mfDcfF
customPiece5 = k:DF
extinctionPieceTypes = k
extinctionPseudoRoyal = true
castlingRookPieces = l
castlingKingPiece = k
promotionPieceTypes = bwld
startFen = lwbdkbwl/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/LWBDKBWL w KQkq - 0 1
promotionRegionWhite = *8 *7
promotionRegionBlack = *1 *2
promotionPawnTypes = p