Community variant

Microchess

Chess variant on a 4x5 board. There is no queen, and only a single pawn.

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: absalom29
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `gardner` 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), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).

Fairy-Stockfish rules

# Microchess
# https://greenchess.net/rules.php?v=microchess
[microchess:gardner]
maxRank = 5
maxFile = d
startFen = rbnk/p3/4/3P/RBNK w - - 0 1