Community variant

Manchu v2

Manchu+ but more balanced

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: Timur
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), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (a), piece (c) and custom piece 1 (m).
custom piece 1 (m) is a custom piece with Betza movement `RNmRcpR`.

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

RNmRcpR

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[manchuv2:xiangqi]

# Manchu = Rook + Knight + Cannon
customPiece1 = m:RNmRcpR

# Starting position
startFen = m1bakab1r/9/9/p1p1p1p1p/9/9/P1P1P1P2/1C5C1/9/RNBAK1BNR w - - 0 1