Community variant
Xiangqi placement
Xiangqi but placement rule
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 `xiangqi` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (a) and piece (c).
Move rules
- Dropping piece(s) acrnb is mandatory when possible.
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: piece (a), rook (r), piece (c), knight (n) and bishop (b).
- Piece drops are restricted to color-specific board regions. The the drop region for White is all the ranks from 1 to 3 and the drop region for Black is all the ranks from 10 to 8.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[xiangqiplacement2:xiangqi]
capturesToHand = false
pieceDrops = true
mustDrop = true
mustDropType = acrnb
dropChecks = true
dropRegionWhite = *1 *2 *3
dropRegionBlack = *10 *9 *8
startFen = 4k4/9/9/p1p1p1p1p/9/9/P1P1P1P1P/9/9/4K4[AARRCCNNBBaarrccnnbb] w - - 0 1