Community variant

Harbranj

Harbranj — A hybrid between Chess and Shatranj invented by A. M. DeWitt. Full rules: chessvariants.com

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: Videocatter
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), rook (r), knight (n), pawn (p), custom piece 1 (e) and custom piece 2 (g).
custom piece 1 (e) is a custom piece with Betza movement `FA`.
custom piece 2 (g) is a custom piece with Betza movement `BWD`.

Move rules

Castling is not allowed.
Pawn double-step moves are disabled.

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are both sides: custom piece 2 (g), rook (r), custom piece 1 (e) and knight (n).

Winning and losing

Stalemate is scored as a loss for the side to move.

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.

Custom piece 1 (E) movement

FA

Custom piece 2 (G) movement

BWD

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[harbranj7:chess]
startFen = rnegkenr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNEGKENR w - - 0 1
pieceToCharTable = P:P N:N R:R Q:Q K:K E:B G:Q p:p n:n r:r q:q k:k e:b g:q
doubleStep = false
castling = false
stalemateValue = loss
customPiece1 = e:FA
customPiece2 = g:BWD
promotionPieceTypes = gren