Community variant

Maharajah and the Sepoys

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: Timur
Visibility: public
Status: active

Generated rule overview

This variant is defined directly from a Fairy-Stockfish rule block. The text below is generated from the available configuration and may omit details that are only implicit in piece movement notation.

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), pawn (p) and amazon (m).

Winning and losing

An extinction rule is active: reaching 0 remaining piece(s) m causes a loss for the side to move.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

# Maharajah and the Sepoys
[maharajah]

pawn = p
knight = n
bishop = b
rook = r
queen = q
king = k
amazon = m

pieceToCharTable = PNBRQ.............MKpnbrq.............mk

startFen = rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/8/4M3 w kq - 0 1

extinctionValue = loss
extinctionPieceTypes = m
extinctionPseudoRoyal = true