Community variant
Screen Chess
Similar to Placement Chess, but players have to place all their pieces anywhere on their own half of the board before moving any of them.
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 `placement` 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) and pawn (p).
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
- Drops of pawn (p) are restricted on files that already contain 1 such piece(s).
- Piece drops are restricted to color-specific board regions. The the drop region for White is all the ranks from 1 to 4 and the drop region for Black is all the ranks from 8 to 5.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[screen:placement]
dropNoDoubled = p
startFen = 8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8[KQRRBBNNPPPPPPPPkqrrbbnnpppppppp] w - - 0 1
dropRegionWhite = *1 *2 *3 *4
dropRegionBlack = *8 *7 *6 *5