Community variant
S chess mythical creature
Each player get kirin and phoenix. (Both move like chu shogi.) The kirin move like compound of dabbaba and ferz. (Or fers.) And phoenix move like compound of afil and wazir.
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 `seirawan` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), Kirin (i) and Phoenix (o).
- Kirin (i) is a custom piece with Betza movement `DF`.
- Phoenix (o) is a custom piece with Betza movement `AW`.
- Lion (l) is a custom piece with Betza movement `KADN`.
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: Kirin (i) and Phoenix (o).
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: knight (n), bishop (b), rook (r), queen (q), Kirin (i) and Phoenix (o).
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.
DF
AW
KADN
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[schessmythicalcreature_2:seirawan]
customPiece1 = i:DF
customPiece2 = o:AW
customPiece3 = l:KADN
gold = g
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[IOio] w KQBCDFGkqbcdfg - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = nbrqio