Community variant

the seeker

adds a new piece called the "seeker"

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: Meogamer2
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `chess` 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), custom piece 1 (b) and pawn (p).
custom piece 1 (b) is a custom piece with Betza movement `ZAND`.

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 (B) movement

ZAND

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[morestuff:chess]

customPiece1 = b:ZAND

maxFile = 7

maxRank = 8

startFen = rbbqkbb/ppppppp/7/7/7/7/PPPPPPP/RBBQKBB w