the bishop+nightrider compound), is a fairy chess piece that can move any number of steps as a knight in the same direction. The nightrider is often represented...

variants of fairy chess, N is used for the nightrider, a popular fairy chess piece). The knight has the oldest defined movement of any chess piece. It was...

Look up nightrider in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Night Rider, Nightrider, or variants thereof may refer to: Night Rider (novel), a 1939 novel by...

The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...

Wayne Schmittberger (1987). Wolf Chess: On an 8×10 board, with fairy pieces wolf (empress), fox (princess), nightrider, sergeant (almost a Berolina pawn)...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...

riders in orthodox chess are examples of sliders. Riders can create both pins and skewers. One popular fairy chess rider is the nightrider, which can make...

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The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE , the international chess governing body...

chess pieces are generalized in many ways into fairy chess pieces, such as grasshopper, nightrider, and cannon. Different boards: One can vary board size...

knight. The fox moves and captures as a chess bishop and a chess knight. The nightrider moves and captures as a chess knight extended to make any number of...

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over intervening pieces. Each player begins the...

examples: Almost Chess, Enep, Butterfly Chess, Nightrider chess and Janus Kamil. ChessV code is saved as the extension ".cvc" (ChessV Code). Its syntax...

Checkers chess (1950s) Decimal four-handed chess (1950s) Idle Kings' chess (1950s) Nightrider chess (1950s) Scaci Partonici (1950s) Decimal Rettah chess (1952)...

the dragon, is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight. It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the...

The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining...

The wazir or vazir is a fairy chess piece that may move a single square vertically or horizontally. In notation, it is given the symbol W. In this article...

A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen,...

The dabbaba, also known as the dabaaba or dabbabah, is a fairy chess piece that jumps two squares orthogonally (the directions a rook can move), leaping...

The Dubrovnik chess set is a style of chess pieces influenced by the Staunton chess set. These chessmen are considered to have significant historical...

In chess, a relative value (or point value) is a standard value conventionally assigned to each piece. Piece valuations have no role in the rules of chess...

old chess piece, appearing in some early chess variants, such as Tamerlane chess. It also appears in some modern variants, such as wildebeest chess. The...

see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms used in chess is general, see Glossary of chess; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants...

The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjoining square; it may also perform, in tandem with the rook, a...

The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It may move one square directly forward, it may move two squares directly...

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...

The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. It can jump four squares vertically and one square horizontally or four squares horizontally...

is a fairy chess piece that can jump two squares diagonally. It first appeared in shatranj. It is used in many historical and regional chess variants....

from the nightrider on d3, White plays 2. fxe6e.p.+++. After the en passant capture, three pieces check the black king: the pawn, the nightrider, and the...

The empress is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a rook but may do so when moving...