Fairy Chess Piece
A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some chess problems. Compared to conventional pieces, fairy pieces vary mostly in the way they move, but they may also follow special rules for capturing, promotions, etc. Because of the distributed and uncoordinated nature of unorthodox chess development, the same piece can have different names, and different pieces can have the same name in various contexts. Most are symbolised as inverted or rotated icons of the standard pieces in diagrams, and the meanings of these "wildcards" must be defined in each context separately. Pieces invented for use in chess variants rather than problems sometimes instead have special icons designed for them, but with some exceptions (the princess, empress, and occasionally amazon), many of these are not used beyond the individual games for which they were invented ...
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Chess Piece
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 and Black in chess, white or black, and it can be one of six types: King (chess), king, Queen (chess), queen, Rook (chess), rook, Bishop (chess), bishop, Knight (chess), knight, or Pawn (chess), pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color. Additional pieces, usually an extra queen per color, may be provided for use in Promotion (chess), promotion. Number of pieces Each player begins with sixteen pieces (but see the #Usage of the term piece, subsection below for other usage of the term ''piece''). The pieces that belong to each player are distinguished by color: the lighter colored pieces are referred to as "white" and the player that owns them as "White", whereas the darker colored pieces are referred to as "black" and the player that owns them as "Black". In a standard game, each of the two players begins with the following sixteen ...
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Ferz (chess)
The ferz or fers is a fairy chess piece that may move one square diagonally.Piececlopedia: Ferz
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'' It was used in orthodox chess before being replaced by the

queen

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History and nomenclature

The ferz is a very old piece, appearing in

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Giraffe (chess)
The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move.Piececlopedia: Giraffe
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Hans Bodlaender

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'' It can jump four squares vertically and one square horizontally or four squares horizontally and one square vertically, regardless of intervening pieces; thus, it is a (1,4)- leaper.

Movement

History

According to

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Tripper
Tripper may refer to: Film and television * Jack Tripper, a main character in the American sitcoms ''Three's Company'' and ''Three's a Crowd'' * Tripper Harrison, the character portrayed by Bill Murray in the film '' Meatballs'' * ''The Tripper'', a 2006 film Music * ''Tripper'' (Efterklang album), 2004 * ''Tripper'' (Fruit Bats album), 2011 * ''Tripper'' (Hella album), 2011 Other uses * A train stop safety device in railway signaling * Tripper (chess) A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some chess problems. Compared to conventional pieces, fa ...