But you can't have 2 kings royal in variants, also, how will the king on the 2nd rank castle?
For the first part, that is just a limitation of the editor which can eventually be removed. For the second, the King being able to castle is not a necessary rule for making a good variant.


I don't think I've shared this idea with the community yet, but I came up with an idea for a chess variant a while back called Double Royalty Chess. The position looks like this:
Both kings are royal in this variant, but otherwise, it plays like standard chess. The pawns on d3 and e3 can only move one square on their first turn, as well as their subsequent turns. Also, this position breaks Stockfish. Stockfish ended up hanging a queen once in a game from this position. It had actually realized it hung a queen on the next move, and ended up getting checkmated, despite only considering one king royal.