Community variant
Squire v2
Squire Chess is a fast, tactical chess variant played with only Kings and Pawns. Advance your foot soldiers across the board to earn their Knighthood, trap the enemy King, and win by checkmate or stalemate.
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 `chess` and overrides the settings shown below.
Board and setup
Pieces and movement
- The piece set used on the board is: king (k), pawn (p) and knight (n).
Promotion
- The pieces that can promote are: pawn (p).
- Promotion choices are both sides: knight (n).
Winning and losing
- Stalemate is scored as a loss for the side to move.
Fairy-Stockfish rules
[squirev2:chess]
startFen = 4k3/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/4K3 w - - 0 1
promotionPieceTypes = n
stalemateValue = loss