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Casual play recommended, variant is solved, no draws exist. Also called "Bauernkloppe" or "Pawn Brawl" the variant is usally used in education to teach zugzwang and pawn structures, despite being solved it is suprisingly competitve and complicated. The Rules: There are only pawns on the board, first to reach backrank wins, if you cant move you loose.
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
SchachLinus
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 positionPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Default starting position

Pieces and movement

  • The piece set used on the board is: pawn (p).

Move rules

  • Check restrictions are disabled; kings/royal pieces may be capturable depending on the variant goal.

Winning and losing

  • A flag/goal-zone win is active for any piece.
  • Stalemate is scored as a loss for the side to move.

Fairy-Stockfish rules

[prussianpawns:chess]

startFen = 8/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/8 w - - 0 1

checking = false
king = -

stalemateValue = loss

flagPiece = *
flagRegionWhite = *8
flagRegionBlack = *1