Community variant

New Zealand vs Chess

New Zealand army vs standard chess army. In the standard piece set piece at the bottom is how the piece moves, at the top is how it captures.

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: e-pluszak
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), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n), pawn (p), rook-knight (x) and kni-rook (y).

Promotion

The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
Promotion choices are White: bishop (b), knight (n), rook (r) and queen (q) and Black: rook-knight (x), kni-rook (y), bishop (b) and queen (q).

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[nzvschess:chess]
pieceToCharTable = PNBRQXY............Kpnbrqxy............k
rookni = x
kniroo = y
promotionPieceTypesWhite = bnrq
promotionPieceTypesBlack = xybq
castlingRookPieces = rx
startFen = xybqkbyx/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1