Open ckoshka opened 3 years ago
The rules for 1. and 4. can already be configured, 2. and 3. are a bit more problematic.
Since your variant is similar to standard chess, let's start by inheriting the rules from it:
[tabularasa:chess]
Then, you want to change the starting position as well as enable and enforce piece drops, so you set:
startFen = 8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8[KQRRBBNNPPPPPPPPkqrrbbnnpppppppp] w - - 0 1
pieceDrops = true
mustDrop = true
In order to prohibit checks by piece drops, you can add
dropChecks = false
Currently there unfortunately is no option to disallow piece drops that attack a piece. In order to achieve that a player loses if he does not have a legal move, you would currently need to set stalemate to be a loss, which would then however also apply to the later game phase. If you want to generally restrict the regions for piece drops, you can use whiteDropRegion
/blackDropRegion
for that.
I've been reading through the wiki and variants.ini but I'm still lost about implement a variant like this (I don't really have a name for it but I guess a cool nice name would be Tabula Rasa chess):
I don't want to be a freeloader and ask the community for a full variant config file, but I'd really appreciate it if someone pointed me in the right direction!