Community variant

Falcon vs Orda

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: Videocatter
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `ordamirror` and overrides the settings shown below.

Board and setup

Default starting position

Pieces and movement

The piece set used on the board is: king (k), pawn (p), horse archer (a), falcon (f), kheshig (h) and lancer (l).
falcon (f) is a custom piece with Betza movement `QNAD`.

Winning and losing

Stalemate is scored as a loss for the side to move.

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.

falcon (F) movement

QNAD

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[falcon-against_orda:ordamirror]
# 1. Custom Eagle piece setup (Amazon + Alibaba = Queen + Knight + Alfil + Dabbaba)
customPiece1 = f:QNAD

# 2. Defeat condition for Black: game ends when the Eagle 'f' is mated
extinctionPieceTypes = f
extinctionPseudoRoyal = true

# 3. Stalemate condition: stalemated player loses (non-stalemated wins)
stalemateValue = loss

# 4. Final balanced FEN-position
# Keshik and Noble swapped on White's flanks for better defensive symmetry.
startFen = 2lf1l2/1pppppp1/1pppppp1/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/LAH1KHAL w - - 0 1