Community variant

Radagast Chess

10x8 chess with wizard (camel bishop compound) and mushroom (1 or 2 squares in any direction with jump, ie any square a king could get to with two moves). In honor of Radagast the Brown

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

The variant supports Chess960-style castling.

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 (w) and custom piece 2 (m).
custom piece 1 (w) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BC`.
custom piece 2 (m) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NWFAD`.

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 (W) movement

BC

Custom piece 2 (M) movement

NWFAD

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[radagastchess:chess]

# pychessPieces = k,q,r,b,n,p,m,w

maxFile = 10
maxRank = 8

chess960 = true

customPiece1 = w:BC
customPiece2 = m:NWFAD

startFen = rnbmqkwbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBMQKWBNR w KQkq - 0 1