Community variant

go between chess

Chess with chu shogi go between.

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: weisima
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), Go between (g) and Drunk elephant (d).
Go between (g) is a custom piece with Betza movement `fbW`.
Drunk elephant (d) is a custom piece with Betza movement `FlrfW`.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: Go between (g) and pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: Drunk elephant (d), knight (n), bishop (b), rook (r) and queen (q).

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.

Go between (G) movement

fbW

Drunk elephant (D) movement

FlrfW

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[gobetweenchess:chess]
customPiece1 = g:fbW
customPiece2 = d:FlrfW
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/2g2g2/8/8/2G2G2/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = dnbrq
promotionPawnTypes = gp