Community variant
Gardener minichess
Classic Gardner Minichess played on a compact 5×5 board. Small board, fast games, and pure tactical chess.
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 `chess` 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).
Move rules
- Castling is not allowed.
- Pawn double-step moves are enabled.
Promotion
- Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all squares on rank 5 and the promotion region for Black is all squares on rank 1.
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b) and knight (n).
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[gardner1:chess]
maxRank = 5
maxFile = 5
startFen = rbnqk/ppppp/5/PPPPP/RBNQK w KQkq - 0 1
castling = false
doubleStep = true
promotionRegionWhite = *5
promotionRegionBlack = *1
promotionPieceTypes = qrbn