Community variant
Crowded Xiangqi (擠迫棋)
A compressed (5 × 9) variant of Chinese Chess invented by Conway after all of his cheap magnetic boards broke in half. Pawns can move sideways at the second-last rank. Generals can fly horizontally in the central rank.
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 `xiangqi` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (a) and piece (c).
- Some pieces have restricted movement regions: mobilityRegionBlackKing is d3 e3 f3 d4 e4 f4 d5 e5 f5.
- Some pieces have restricted movement regions: mobilityRegionBlackFers is d3 e3 f3 d4 e4 f4 d5 e5 f5.
- Some pieces have restricted movement regions: mobilityRegionBlackElephant is *1 *2 *3 *4 *5.
- Soldiers use restricted pawn-like movement until they reach the configured promotion rank.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
# Crowded Xiangqi
# Chinese Chess on half the board (5 × 9 intersections).
[crowdedxiangqi:xiangqi]
maxRank = 5
startFen = rnbakabnr/pcp1p1pcp/9/PCP1P1PCP/RNBAKABNR w - - 0 1
mobilityRegionBlackKing = d3 e3 f3 d4 e4 f4 d5 e5 f5
mobilityRegionBlackFers = d3 e3 f3 d4 e4 f4 d5 e5 f5
mobilityRegionBlackElephant = *1 *2 *3 *4 *5
soldierPromotionRank = 4