Community variant

SuperKnights Setup

pieces are normal but combined with knights.pawns get no upgrades and can only promote to normal knights and the knights is nightrider

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: aaaaaaapiazy
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: archbishop (b), custom piece 2 (n), pawn (p), amazon (a), chancellor (c) and custom piece 1 (g).
custom piece 1 (g) is a custom piece with Betza movement `iKN`.
custom piece 2 (n) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NN`.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: custom piece 2 (n).

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 (G) movement

iKN

Custom piece 2 (N) movement

NN

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[custom8x8hyperchess_v7:chess]
# Define custom piece movement using Betza notation:
# g = Royal Centaur (K = King step, N = Knight leap, i = Royal status)
# n = Nightrider (NN = repeating Knight leaps)
customPiece1 = g:iKN
customPiece2 = n:NN

amazon = a
archbishop = b
chancellor = c

pieceToCharTable = . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A B C G N P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a b c g n p

promotionPieceTypes = n

startFen = cnbagnbc/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/CNBAGNBC w - - 0 1