Community variant
Mini Makruk House
A compact 5×6 fusion of Makruk and Crazyhouse. Capture pieces to add them to your pocket, then drop them back onto the board to create fresh tactical opportunities.
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 `makruk` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (m) and piece (s).
Move rules
- Castling is not allowed.
- Pawn double-step moves are disabled.
- A piece may not move to a square where it would have no legal future movement.
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: king (k), rook (r), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (m) and piece (s).
- Captured pieces go to the capturer's hand.
- Pawn drops on the first rank are allowed.
- Pawn drops into the promotion zone are allowed.
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 2.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[mnimakhouse:makruk]
maxRank = 6
maxFile = 5
startFen = rnskm/ppppp/5/5/PPPPP/RNSKM[] w - - 0 1
castling = false
doubleStep = false
pieceDrops = true
capturesToHand = true
firstRankPawnDrops = true
promotionZonePawnDrops = true
immobilityIllegal = true
promotionRegionWhite = *5
promotionRegionBlack = *2