Community variant

shatranjhouse

shatranj + zh

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 `shatranj` 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).

Move rules

A piece may not move to a square where it would have no legal future movement.

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).
Captured pieces go to the capturer's hand.
Pawn drops on the first rank are allowed.
Pawn drops into the promotion zone are allowed.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[shatranjhouse:shatranj]
startFen = rnbkqbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBKQBNR[] w - - 0 1
pieceDrops = true
capturesToHand = true
firstRankPawnDrops = true
promotionZonePawnDrops = true
immobilityIllegal = true