Community variant
Maharajah and the Sepoys
Remake the original so pawns can move to the 8th rank
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 is defined directly from a Fairy-Stockfish rule block. The text below is generated from the available configuration and may omit details that are only implicit in piece movement notation.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p) and amazon (m).
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: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: pawn (p).
- Pawn promotion is mandatory when a pawn reaches the last rank/required zone.
Winning and losing
- An extinction rule is active: reaching 0 remaining piece(s) m causes a loss for the side to move.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[maharajah_and_the_sepoys]
pawn = p
knight = n
bishop = b
rook = r
queen = q
king = k
amazon = m
pieceToCharTable = PNBRQ.............MKpnbrq.............mk
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/8/4M3 w kq - 0 1
# Pawns promote to pawns on the last rank
promotionPieceTypes = p
promotionRegionWhite = *8
promotionRegionBlack = *1
mandatoryPawnPromotion = true
# Maharajah is the only piece whose extinction matters
extinctionValue = loss
extinctionPieceTypes = m
extinctionPseudoRoyal = true