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Today when attempting to set up the board so that all pieces are in the pocket, I noticed that the stalemate event "not enough material to mate" seems to be triggered even when crazyhouse is selected in the menu to the left.

this all happened because I am unable to use the board editor to create a position and then load it into the crazyhouse variant analysis board. selection of crazyhouse variant causes the pieces to reset to starting position.
Yep, this definitely seems to be a bug. Bug since empty boards in crazyhouse are one of the most rare things ever, I guess nobody has noticed it yet.

A board editor for variants has been suggested, but I think it's technically quite difficult to set up.
Setting up position on zh variant is not difficult when you know the on-hand pieces of both sides.

Goto board editor, setup your on-board pieces. Then remember the on-hand pieces.

For example, I remove all pieces except kings. Here is the normal fen.
4k3/8/8/8/8/8/8/4K3 w - - 0 1

Then add the on-hand pieces by appending a / <WHITE_PIECES blackpieces> like below.

This is the on-hand pieces: White upper case, black lower case.
/QRRBBNNPPPPPPPPqrrbbnnpppppppp

And this is the full zh fen with all pieces (except kings) in the pockets :
Format:
<on-board pieces>/<on-hand pieces> <side> ...

4k3/8/8/8/8/8/8/4K3/QRRBBNNPPPPPPPPqrrbbnnpppppppp w - - 0 1

Copy that full zh fen and goto analysis board, select zh variant, then paste that fen and press enter.

You should see this.
en.lichess.org/analysis/crazyhouse/4k3/8/8/8/8/8/8/4K3/QRRBBNNPPPPPPPPqrrbbnnpppppppp_w_-_-_0_1

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