Community variant

Longhouse

Longer board version of Crazyhouse

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).

Promotion

Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all squares on rank 10 and the promotion region for Black is all squares on rank 1.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[longhouse:crazyhouse]
maxRank = 10  # rows
maxFile = 8  # columns
promotionRegionWhite = *10
promotionRegionBlack = *1
doubleStepRegionWhite = *2
doubleStepRegionBlack = *9
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[] w KQkq - 0 1