Community variant
Makruk House
Hybrid variant of makruk and crazyhouse
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.
Generated rule overview
This variant inherits its base rules from `makruk` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), rook (r), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (m) and piece (s).
Move rules
- A piece may not move to a square where it would have no legal future movement.
Drops and hands
- Pieces in hand can be dropped back onto the board. Droppable pieces are: rook (r), knight (n), pawn (p), piece (m) and piece (s).
- Captured pieces go to the capturer's hand.
- Pawn drops on the first rank are allowed.
- Pawn drops into the promotion zone are allowed.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[makhouse:makruk]
startFen = rnsmksnr/8/pppppppp/8/8/PPPPPPPP/8/RNSKMSNR[] w - - 0 1
pieceDrops = true
capturesToHand = true
firstRankPawnDrops = true
promotionZonePawnDrops = true
immobilityIllegal = true