Community variant

Mythic Chess

Mythic Chess, 10 x 8 board with additional unicorn (knight camel compound) and dragon (knight bishop compound)

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: tea_drunk
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), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), custom piece 1 (d) and custom piece 2 (u).
custom piece 1 (d) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BN`.
custom piece 2 (u) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NC`.

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 (D) movement

BN

Custom piece 2 (U) movement

NC

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[mythicchess:chess]

# pychessPieces = k,q,r,b,n,p,d,u

maxFile = 10
maxRank = 8

customPiece1 = D:BN
customPiece2 = U:NC

startFen = rnbdkqubnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBDKQUBNR w - - 0 1