Community variant
India Chess
Pieces and pawns promote to get king movement...
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 `mansindam` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), 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: rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
- Captured pieces go to the capturer's hand.
Promotion
- Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all squares on rank 8 and the promotion region for Black is all squares on rank 1.
Winning and losing
- A flag/goal-zone win is active for any piece.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[indiacss:mansindam]
maxFile = 7
maxRank = 8
pieceDrops = true
capturesToHand = true
pocketSize = 4
startFen = rnbk3/ppppppp/7/7/7/7/PPPPPPP/RNBK3 w - - 0 1
promotionRegionWhite = *7
promotionRegionBlack = *1
mandatoryPiecePromotion = false
promotionRegionWhite = *8
promotionRegionBlack = *1
flagRegionWhite = *8
flagRegionBlack = *1
immobilityIllegal = false