Fairy chess

Types of fairy chess problems

• New stipulations: Probably the most-used alterations are new stipulations about mate instead of a direct mate stipulation. A lot of them were invented and some became established. Selfmates and helpmates are nowadays often considered to be orthodox stipulations. Among others are: reflexmates, various types of seriesmovers or recently very popular helpselfmates.
• New conditions: Encompassing all changes of rules including rules for captures, checks, checkmates, general movement abilities, etc. Many were invented; some became established: Circe chess, Madrasi chess, Andernach chess, monochromatic chess, patrol chess, Einstein chess and numerous others.
• New chess pieces: Conventional chess pieces are generalized in many ways. See main article Fairy chess pieces.
• Different boards: One can vary board size from 8×8 to other sizes or use different geometries: cylinder, anchor ring or torus and others.

Fairy chess literature

• The Problemist Fairy Supplement
• Fairy Chess Review
• Feenschach, edited by W. Karsch