Community variant

Woke chess

Chess variant where pieces alternate when they move (chennis). Idea by Hailstorm

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: Rom142857
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), knight (n) and pawn (p).
custom piece 1 (c) is a custom piece with Betza movement `K`.
The royal piece king (k) uses custom Betza movement ``.

Promotion

Promotions are available in the configured promotion zones. The the promotion region for White is all the ranks from 1 to 8 and the promotion region for Black is all the ranks from 1 to 8.
The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p), rook (r) and queen (q).
Promotion choices are both sides: no pieces.
Fixed promotion mappings: p promotes to s, r promotes to b and q promotes to c.
Piece promotion is mandatory where promotion is legal.
Promoted pieces can demote according to the configured promotion mapping.

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.

Custom piece 1 (C) movement

K

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[wokechesstest:chess]
startFen= rn+rqk+rnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RN+RQK+RNR w
customPiece1 = c:K
king = k:
shogiPawn = s
promotionRegionWhite = *1 *2 *3 *4 *5 *6 *7 *8
promotionRegionBlack = *1 *2 *3 *4 *5 *6 *7 *8
mandatoryPiecePromotion = true
pieceDemotion = true
pawnTypes = psbrqc
promotionPawnTypes = prq
promotedPieceType = p:s r:b q:c
promotionPieceTypes = -