Community variant

Less power chess

Chess but piece become weak version fairy piece expect pawn and king.

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: Oeoeoeiei
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), pawn (p), Elephant (e), Ferz (f), Wazir (w), ADK (i) and Commonder (c).
ADK (i) is a custom piece with Betza movement `ADK`.

Move rules

Facing generals/kings on the same open file are illegal, as in Xiangqi.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: Commonder (c).

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.

ADK (I) movement

ADK

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[lesspowerchess:chess]

customPiece1 = i:ADK

fers = f

alfil = e

wazir = w

commoner = c

castlingRookPieces = w


startFen = wefikfew/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/WEFIKFEW w KQkq - 0 1

flyingGeneral = true
promotionPieceTypes = c