Community variant

SuperWhite

Yes

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: King_Keeg
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), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), Archibishop (a) and Chancellor (h).
Archibishop (a) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NB`.
Chancellor (h) is a custom piece with Betza movement `RN`.

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.

Archibishop (A) movement

NB

Chancellor (H) movement

RN

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[superwhitechess:chess]
# 1. Define White's upgraded Knight as an Archbishop ('a'): combines Knight and Bishop ('NB')
customPiece1 = a:NB

# 2. Define White's upgraded Rook as a Chancellor ('h'): combines Rook and Knight ('RN')
customPiece2 = h:RN

# 3. Allow both standard Rooks ('r') and Chancellors ('h') to participate in castling
castlingRookPieces = rh

# 4. Asymmetric starting position with castling enabled (KQkq)
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/HABQKBAH w KQkq - 0 1