Community variant

Muskeeter chess (leopard cannon default)

chess with muskeeter piece rule.

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: Oeoeoeiei
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `seirawan` 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), knight (n), pawn (p), cannon (c) and leopard (l).
leopard (l) is a custom piece with Betza movement `nAFN`.
cannon (c) is a custom piece with Betza movement `lrNDK`.

Drops and hands

Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: cannon (c) and leopard (l).

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: leopard (l), cannon (c), knight (n), bishop (b), rook (r) and queen (q).

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.

leopard (L) movement

nAFN

cannon (C) movement

lrNDK

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[musketeerchess_v2:seirawan]
customPiece1 = l:nAFN
customPiece2 = c:lrNDK
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[CLcl] w KQBCDFGkqbcdfg - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = lcnbrq