Community variant

Hoppel-poppel vs chess

Hoppel-poppel army vs standard chess army. In the standard piece set piece at the bottom is how the piece moves, at the top is how it captures.

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: e-pluszak
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), knibis (x) and biskni (y).

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are White: knibis (x), biskni (y), rook (r) and queen (q) and Black: bishop (b), knight (n), rook (r) and queen (q).

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[hoppelpoppelvschess:chess]
pieceToCharTable = PNBRQXY............Kpxy.qrnb...........k
knibis = x
biskni = y
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RXYQKYXR w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypesWhite = xyrq
promotionPieceTypesBlack = bnrq