Community variant

Small dabbaba

Small dabbaba replace queen.small dabbaba move 2 square orthogonally. Cannot jump.

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: Le_kw
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

Pieces and movement

The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p) and Small dabbaba (s).
Small dabbaba (s) is a custom piece with Betza movement `nD`.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: Small dabbaba (s), rook (r), knight (n) and bishop (b).

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.

Small dabbaba (S) movement

nD

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[smalldabbaba_:chess]
customPiece1 = s:nD
startFen = rnbskbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBSKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = srnb