Community variant

Pemba

Created by Jean-Louis Cazaux. Pemba is filling the holes of the Shako's lineup. https://www.chessvariants.com/invention/pemba

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: gbtami
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `shako` 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), archer (a), cannon (c), elephant (e), machine (m), camel (l) and giraffe (g).
camel (l) is a custom piece with Betza movement `C`.
giraffe (g) is a custom piece with Betza movement `Z`.
archer (a) is a custom piece with Betza movement `mBcpB`.
machine (m) is a custom piece with Betza movement `WD`.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), cannon (c), elephant (e), camel (l), giraffe (g), archer (a) and machine (m).

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.

camel (L) movement

C

giraffe (G) movement

Z

archer (A) movement

mBcpB

machine (M) movement

WD

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[pemba:shako]
# Created by Jean-Louis Cazaux
# https://www.chessvariants.com/invention/pemba
maxRank = 10
maxFile = 10

# camel
customPiece1 = l:C

# giraffe
customPiece2 = g:Z

# archer
customPiece3 = a:mBcpB

# machine
customPiece4 = m:WD

promotionPieceTypes = qrbncelgam
startFen = clagmmgalc/ernbqkbnre/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/ERNBQKBNRE/CLAGMMGALC w KQkq - 0 1