Community variant
Soldiers
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 `chess` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: custom piece 1 (k), custom piece 2 (q), custom piece 3 (r), custom piece 4 (b), custom piece 5 (n) and pawn (p).
- custom piece 1 (k) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mKcfF`.
- custom piece 2 (q) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfWcfF`.
- custom piece 3 (r) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfWcfF`.
- custom piece 4 (b) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfWcfF`.
- custom piece 5 (n) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mfWcfF`.
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.
mKcfF
mfWcfF
mfWcfF
mfWcfF
mfWcfF
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[pawn_army:chess]
maxFile = 8
maxRank = 8
# 1. THE HYBRID KING
# 'mK' = Move like a King (1 square in any direction).
# 'cfF' = Capture forward diagonally 1 square (like a pawn).
customPiece1 = k:mKcfF
# 2. THE DISGUISED ARMY
# We overwrite the Queen, Rook, Bishop, and Knight.
# 'mfW' = Move forward 1 square.
# 'cfF' = Capture forward diagonally 1 square.
customPiece2 = q:mfWcfF
customPiece3 = r:mfWcfF
customPiece4 = b:mfWcfF
customPiece5 = n:mfWcfF
# 3. THE STARTING BOARD
# We use the standard setup so the board looks normal.
# Castling is disabled (-) because the Rooks are secretly pawns now and can't castle.
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1