Community variant
Check-Shogi
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
This is a curated Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant. Gameplay uses Fairy-Stockfish's canonical built-in definition.
The documentation block below mirrors the relevant built-in settings for the generated overview and movement diagrams.
Generated rule overview
This variant inherits its base rules from `shogi` 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 (l), piece (s) and piece (g).
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (l), piece (s) and piece (g).
- Captured pieces go to the capturer's hand.
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p), piece (l), knight (n), piece (s), bishop (b) and rook (r).
Winning and losing
- The game tracks checks as a win condition, as in Three-check style variants.
Fairy-Stockfish rule documentation
[checkshogi:shogi]
checkCounting = true