Community variant

Frontline King Crazyhouse 2

A highly chaotic Crazyhouse variant starting with both Kings fully exposed on e4 and e5. You must immediately drop pocket pieces to survive instant checkmates from turn one.

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: testkahm768
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `crazyhouse` 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) and pawn (p).

Drops and hands

Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: pawn (p), rook (r), knight (n), bishop (b) and queen (q).

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[pocketarmory-2:crazyhouse]
# Kings start completely alone on e1 and e8 (maximum distance).
# All other 15 pieces of both players start directly in their pockets.
startFen = 5k2/8/8/8/8/8/8/5K2[PPPPPPPPRRNBQpppppppprrnbqPPPPPPPPRRNBQpppppppprrnbq] w - - 0 1

# pychessPieces = k,q,r,b,n,p,+p