Community variant

Antihouse

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: Orca
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant inherits its base rules from `giveaway` 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) and pawn (p).

Move rules

Castling is not allowed.

Drops and hands

Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
Captured pieces go to the capturer's hand.

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.

Commoner movement

K

move capture move or capture initial only hopper target

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[aaantihouse:giveaway]
variantTemplate = giveaway

# 1. Enable Antihouse drop and hand capture mechanics
pieceDrops = true
capturesToHand = true
pocketSize = 100
castling = false

# 2. Standard 8x8 setup
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1