Community variant
Chessgi
Fairy-Stockfish built-in variant exposed as a casual community variant.
References:
Wikipedia
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 `loop` 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).
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
- Captured pieces go to the capturer's hand.
- Pawn drops on the first rank are allowed.
- Captured promoted pieces stay promoted when they go to hand.
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Fairy-Stockfish rule documentation
[chessgi:loop]
dropLoop = true
firstRankPawnDrops = true