Community variant
Wazir King
Chess, but the King cannot move diagonaly
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 `chess` 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).
- The royal piece king (k) uses custom Betza movement `W`.
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.
W
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[wazirking:chess]
king = k:W