Community variant

Sword Dance

Also known as Jianwu or 剑舞. *Note: If you think the colour of the board and the colours of pieces are not in harmony to each other, please ping me (Dan-kyu_System) on Pychess Discord server with your .svg files for the board and pieces.

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: The_SPToan60
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `shogi` and overrides the settings shown below.

Board and setup

Default starting position

Pieces and movement

The piece set used on the board is: Cultivator (k), Xuanjian (n), Feijian (p), Lingjian (f) and Zhongjian (l).
The royal piece Cultivator (k) uses custom Betza movement `F`.
Lingjian (f) is a custom piece with Betza movement `F`.
Xuanjian (n) is a custom piece with Betza movement `nN`.
Zhongjian (l) is a custom piece with Betza movement `D`.
Feijian (p) is a custom piece with Betza movement `fW`.

Move rules

A piece may not move to a square where it would have no legal future movement.

Drops and hands

Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: Xuanjian (n), Feijian (p), Lingjian (f) and Zhongjian (l).
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.
The pieces that can promote are: Feijian (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: Lingjian (f).

Winning and losing

Stalemate is scored as a loss for the side to move.

Draws and adjudication

Perpetual check is illegal.

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.

Lingjian (F) movement

F

Xuanjian (N) movement

nN

Zhongjian (L) movement

D

Feijian (P) movement

fW

Cultivator (K) movement

F

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[jianwu6:shogi]

maxFile = 7
maxRank = 8

king = k:F
customPiece1 = f:F
customPiece2 = n:nN
customPiece3 = l:D
customPiece4 = p:fW

promotionPawnTypes = p
promotionPieceTypes = f
promotionRegionWhite = *8
promotionRegionBlack = *1

stalemateValue = loss
perpetualCheckIllegal = true
immobilityIllegal = true

capturesToHand = true
pieceDrops = true

startFen = lnfkfnl/7/ppppppp/7/7/PPPPPPP/7/LNFKFNL[] w - - 0 1