Community variant

House on the Hill

Combination of Crazyhouse and King of the Hill. Checkmate the king or get your king to the center, taken pieces become your own to place later.

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: hyulgaeth
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `crazyhouse` 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) and pawn (p).

Drops and hands

Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).

Winning and losing

A flag/goal-zone win is active for piece(s) k.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[house_on_the_hill:crazyhouse]
flagPiece = k
flagRegion = d4 e4 d5 e5