A Guide on How to Use "Restricted Crazyhouse", a (unintended) Crazyhouse Feature

Hi!

@TimeVeteran had an idea to make forums explaining bugs and exploits, so i'll make one.

He made a forum explaining Double Royals and more, and it used another bug called Restricted Crazyhouse, which this forum is about.

How it works.

If there is a dead piece in a player's crazyhouse bank, the player can't drop a piece of this type onto the board.

In this crazyhouse bank, it seems like red has 7 wazirs. However, since there is also a dead blue wazir, red actually can't drop any of them. However, they can drop a ferz, because there is no dead ferz in the bank. This can be very useful in many gimmicks, and rawly used also gave me an acception. This also allows a cool tactic:

In this position, a trade of ferzes in not a fair trade. Why? Because red will be able to use their ferz in the bank, however yellow not.

Setting this up is easy, however remember to use a colored dead piece, not a grey one cause grey one prohibits checkmating.

Thanks for reading!

Short but sweet, useful guide.

Try to make the games name, a little more catchy,

Very useful!

What exactly does it mean that a grey piece prohibits checkmating?

Well, it's a really weird bug that you can't be checkmated or stalemated (however win by n-check and atomic are possible), it's used here https://variants.world/posts/1846

The dead grey piece in the crazyhouse bank seems really useful too, as one can make it so that the king can be checked to progress N-check, but the royal cannot be captured

Capturing the royal is still possible if regicide is enabled... ...not saying uncapturables are impossible, you can make them making a piece promotedFrom like 'g5':1, and since the 1 isn't a string cause it isn't in brackets, and with crazyhouse this piece is uncapturable, even if it's a regicide royal, however if there's atomic they still can be captured via explosion, however they won't drop to the bank (somthing will drop, but it's gonna be a blank space)

Also promotedFrom 'x' or 'X' or 'Θ' restricts dropping without using intruders

Don't forget the semi-checky mechanic from Exploring The Ocean