Community variant
Harbranj
Harbranj - A hybrid between Chess and Shatranj invented by A. M. DeWitt. Full rules: chessvariants.com
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
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), general (q), rook (r), elephant (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
- elephant (b) is a custom piece with Betza movement `FA`.
- general (q) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BWD`.
Move rules
- Castling is not allowed.
- Pawn double-step moves are disabled.
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: general (q), rook (r), elephant (b) and knight (n).
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.
FA
BWD
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[harbranj:chess]
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1
doubleStep = false
castling = false
stalemateValue = loss
customPiece1 = b:FA
customPiece2 = q:BWD
promotionPieceTypes = qrbn