Community variant
Potent Knight Chess
Knights are enhanced with a non-capturing diagonal step, allowing a pair to force mate.
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 is defined directly from a Fairy-Stockfish rule block. The text below is generated from the available configuration and may omit details that are only implicit in piece movement notation.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: King (k), Queen (q), Rook (r), Bishop (b), Knight (n) and Pawn (p).
- Knight (n) is a custom piece with Betza movement `NmF`.
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: Pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: Knight (n), Bishop (b), Rook (r) and Queen (q).
Piece movement
These diagrams show custom pieces and known Fairy-Stockfish built-in fairy pieces from White's perspective on a compact preview board. Some special moves, especially hoppers and game-state-dependent moves, can still depend on blockers or game state.
NmF
move
capture
move or capture
initial only
hopper target
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[potent-knight]
pawn = p
customPiece1 = n:NmF
bishop = b
rook = r
queen = q
king = k
promotionPieceTypes = nbrq