Community variant

Manchu Mirror

A variant of Manchu where both players get 2 Manchus as opposed to one side.

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: Eventlesstew
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `xiangqi` 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), bishop (b), pawn (p), piece (a) and custom piece 1 (m).
Piece m is a custom piece with Betza movement `RcpRnN`.

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.

Custom piece 1 (M) movement RcpRnN

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[manchu_mirror:xiangqi]
pieceToCharTable = PNBR.A........M......Kpnbr.a........m......k
customPiece1 = m:RcpRnN
startFen = m1bakab1m/9/9/p1p1p1p1p/9/9/P1P1P1P1P/9/9/M1BAKAB1M w - - 0 1