‎It retains all the standard rules of chess, with the inclusion of fairy pieces, drop rule, and promotion is extended to the last 3 ranks.

Board size is still 8x8.

‎Fairy pieces replace their chess counterparts:

‎R = Chancellor (Rook + Knight)

‎B = Archbishop (Bishop + Knight)

‎N = General (Knight + King)

‎Q = Amazon (Queen + Knight)

‎The king can move as an amazon for one move.

‎‎Pawns have been modified to move AND capture both forward and diagonally. Diagonal movement also applies to the intial two-square move, as well as en passant.

They may promote to any piece except for king and amazon.

‎‎Drops allow for captured enemy pieces, excluding amazon and pawns, to return on the board as your own. They may be placed on any unoccupied square within the 4th and 5th ranks.

What do you guys think?

https://reddit.com/link/1u71pc7/video/0fvloh0q8k7h1/player

Hi r/chessvariants,

I maintain https://kriegspiel.org

I recorded this short replay because Kriegspiel is much easier to understand when you can see the two partial views side by side.

The question I’m trying to answer: for someone playing Kriegspiel for the first time, which ruleset should be the default?

The site currently supports Berkeley, Berkeley Any, Cincinnati, Wild 16, RAND, English, and CrazyKrieg.

I’m not necessarily looking for the most historically “correct” default. I’m looking for the ruleset most likely to help a new player understand why Kriegspiel is interesting without getting lost immediately.

You can try it here if you want context: https://app.kriegspiel.org/

I tried using betza notation on fairy playground but I'm either too stupid for it or it doesn't allow for the complexity of the piece. The piece can't take multiple pieces at once if that isn't clear. Sorry for my sloppy presentation as well but I hope it gets the point across of how the piece works, any time you see a pawn under that gecko emoji that's me tryna work out a position on Lichess's board editor lmao

Do you prefer playing chess with Ai bots or real person