Community variant

Touchdown

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 `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) and pawn (p).

Move rules

Castling is allowed.

Winning and losing

A flag/goal-zone win is active for any piece.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[endzoned:chess]
variantTemplate = chess

# 1. Standard rules
checking = true
castling = true

# 2. Capture-the-flag win rule using Fairy-Stockfish's exact syntax
# This checks for ANY piece (*) reaching the respective home back rank of the opponent.
flagPiece = *
flagRegionWhite = *8
flagRegionBlack = *1

# 3. Standard starting FEN
startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1