Community variant

Four musketeers

4 owerpowered pieces&king vs full army.

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 `chess` 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), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), amazon (a), chancellor (c) and arcbishop (m).
arcbishop (m) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BN`.
chancellor (c) is a custom piece with Betza movement `RN`.
amazon (a) is a custom piece with Betza movement `QN`.

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.

arcbishop (M) movement

BN

chancellor (C) movement

RN

amazon (A) movement

QN

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[four___musketeers_:chess]
customPiece1 = m:BN
customPiece2 = c:RN
customPiece3 = a:QN

startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/8/1CMAKM2 w - - 0 1