Community variant
Dwarf and Elf Chess
10x8 with Dwarf as a Camel Rook compound and Elf as a Bishop King compound
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
- The variant supports Chess960-style castling.
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), custom piece 2 (e) and custom piece 1 (d).
- custom piece 1 (d) is a custom piece with Betza movement `RC`.
- custom piece 2 (e) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BWF`.
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.
RC
BWF
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[elfdwarfchess:chess]
# pychessPieces = k,q,r,b,n,p,d,e
maxFile = 10
maxRank = 8
chess960 = true
customPiece1 = d:RC
customPiece2 = e:BWF
startFen = rdnbqkbner/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RDNBQKBNER w KQkq - 0 1