Community variant

Chess vs Tic-Tac-Toe

Black must align 4 to win. This variant has a massive advantage for Black and can be used as a challenge to beat Fairy-Stockfish

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: Rom142857
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), knight (n), pawn (p) and immobile piece (x).

Drops and hands

Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: immobile piece (x).

Winning and losing

A player can win by connecting 4 pieces horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
Stalemate is scored as a loss for the side to move.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[chessvsttt2:chess]
immobile = x
pieceToCharTable = PNBRQKx
pieceDrops = true
startFen = 8/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] w KQ - 0 1
connectN = 4
connectPieceTypes = x
stalemateValue = loss