Community variant
Maze Hills
Reach the hills!!
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) and knight (n).
Move rules
- Castling is not allowed.
Promotion
- Promotion choices are both sides: no pieces.
Winning and losing
- A flag/goal-zone win is active for piece(s) k.
- Stalemate is scored as a draw.
- Checkmate is scored as a loss for the side to move.
Draws and adjudication
- The n-move rule is set to 50 moves.
- Position repetition is adjudicated after 3-fold repetition as a draw.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[mzerace:chess]
maxRank = 10
maxFile = 12
; Built-in '*' wall squares (native FEN feature, no custom pieces needed).
; Board is 180°-rotationally symmetric, so both kings sit exactly
; 11 open squares away from the shared goal in the center.
startFen = 1*1*3*2nk/1**1*5*n/1*6*1*1/4*1***3/*2**4**1/1**4**2*/3***1*4/1*1*6*1/N*5*1**1/KN2*3*1*1 w - - 0 1
; --- Win condition: race to the center goal ---
flagPiece = k
flagRegionWhite = f5 f6 g5 g6
flagRegionBlack = f5 f6 g5 g6
flagMove = true
; --- Only Kings + Knights in play ---
promotionPieceTypes =
castling = false
nMoveRule = 50
nFoldRule = 3
nFoldValue = draw
stalemateValue = draw
checkmateValue = loss