Community variant

TurnedTables

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 `crazyhouse` 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).

Drops and hands

Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: king (k), queen (q), rook (r), bishop (b), knight (n) and pawn (p).
Piece drops are restricted to color-specific board regions. The the drop region for White is all the ranks from 1 to 8 and the drop region for Black is all squares on rank 9.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[crazydoubled:crazyhouse]
variantTemplate = crazyhouse

# 1. Force the engine and UI to recognize drop mechanics
pieceDrops = true

# 2. Add [] right after the board layout to initialize empty pockets in the UI
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/pppppppp/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[] w KQkq - 0 1

# 3. Allow White to drop on all standard ranks
dropRegionWhite = *1 *2 *3 *4 *5 *6 *7 *8

# 4. Restrict Black's drop region to a non-existent rank, locking their pocket
dropRegionBlack = *9