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Community variant

Immobile King

Chess but the King can't move at all.
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.
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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 positionRNBQKBNRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPRNBQKBNR
Default starting position

Pieces and movement

  • The piece set used on the board is: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
  • The royal piece king (k) uses custom Betza movement ``.

Move rules

  • Castling is not allowed.

Winning and losing

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

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[immobileking_v1_1:chess]
king = k:
castling = false
stalemateValue = loss