Community variant

Zealot

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), pawn (p) and Zealot (z).
Zealot (z) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NC`.

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.

Zealot (Z) movement

NC

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[zealotchess4:chess]
knight = -
customPiece1 = z:NC
pieceValueMg = z:500
pieceValueEg = z:450
startFen = rzbqkbzr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RZBQKBZR w KQkq - 0 1