Community variant

Mini Capablanca

Capablanca chess on a regular 8x8 chess board. The Archbishop and Chancellor replace the two knights. All else is as in Chess.

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: sagig72
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `fairy` 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), pawn (p), piece (a) and piece (c).

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: piece (a), piece (c), rook (r) and queen (q).

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[mini_capablanca:fairy]
variantTemplate = fairy
pieceToCharTable = PNBRQ..AC...........Kpnbrq..ac...........k
promotionPieceTypes = acrq
startFen = rabqkbcr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RABQKBCR w KQkq - 0 1