• 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...
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    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...
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  • Night Rider (redirect from Nightrider)
    Look up nightrider in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Night Rider, Nightrider, or variants thereof may refer to: Night Rider (novel), a 1939 novel by...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Wayne Schmittberger (1987). Wolf Chess: On an 8×10 board, with fairy pieces wolf (empress), fox (princess), nightrider, sergeant (almost a Berolina pawn)...
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  • 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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  • Retrieved 2021-02-23. "The Chess Variant Pages: Bishop-Nightrider compound". "The Chess Variant Pages: Typhoon (Revised)". "Ganymede Chess". "J. P. Jelliss, Theory...
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  • chess pieces are generalized in many ways into fairy chess pieces, such as grasshopper, nightrider, and cannon. Different boards: One can vary board size...
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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...
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    examples: Almost Chess, Enep, Butterfly Chess, Nightrider chess and Janus Kamil. ChessV code is saved as the extension ".cvc" (ChessV Code). Its syntax...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Checkers chess (1950s) Decimal four-handed chess (1950s) Idle Kings' chess (1950s) Nightrider chess (1950s) Scaci Partonici (1950s) Decimal Rettah chess (1952)...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining...
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    The Dubrovnik chess set is a style of chess pieces influenced by the Staunton chess set. These chessmen are considered to have significant historical...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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,...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    The princess is a fairy chess piece that can move like a bishop or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a bishop but may do so when...
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    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...
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  • Ferz (redirect from Ferz (chess))
    ferz or fers is a fairy chess piece that may move one square diagonally. It was used in orthodox chess and in Shatranj form of chess before being replaced...
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    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...
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    chess (also called Schultz's chess, one-way chess, and meso chess) is a chess variant invented by Karl Schultz in 1943, employing the two fairy chess...
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