Community variant
S-Chess Hippocentaur
S-Chess with Centaurs and Leopards.
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.
Generated rule overview
This variant inherits its base rules from `seirawan` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), Centaur (g) and Leopard (j).
- Leopard (j) is a custom piece with Betza movement `F2N`.
- Centaur (g) is a custom piece with Betza movement `KN`.
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: Centaur (g) and Leopard (j).
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: Centaur (g), Leopard (j), 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.
F2N
KN
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[musketeerchesscentaur:seirawan]
customPiece1 = j:F2N
customPiece2 = g:KN
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[GJgj] w KQBCDFGkqbcdfg - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = gjnbrq