Community variant

Gothamchess

Levy Rosman

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

An extinction rule is active: reaching 1 remaining piece(s) r causes a win for the side to move.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[gothamchess:chess]
variantTemplate = chess

# 1. Keep standard checking, checkmate, and castling fully active
checking = true
castling = true

# 2. Set the extinction trigger count to 1.
# This means losing just ONE rook (down to 1 instead of 0) triggers the game end.
extinctionPieceTypes = r
extinctionPieceCount = 1
extinctionValue = win

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