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Wizard (chess)
A fairy chess piece is a game piece that is not in regular chess but appears in an alternate version of chess with different rules. Such an alternate version is known as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following table shows some chess pieces, game pieces of fairy chess, unorthodox chess, from fairy chess problems and chess variants (including chess variants#Chess-related historical and regional games, historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces. The columns "BCPS", "Parlett" and "Betza's funny notation, Betza" contain the notation describing how each piece moves. Italicised names are pieces that are found under other names elsewhere in the table. The notation systems are explained Fairy chess piece, in this page. #0–9, 0–9 – #A, A – #B, B – #C, C – #D, D – #E, E – #F, F – #G, G – #H, H – #I, I – #J, J – #K, K – #L, L – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 unorthodox chess problems, known as fairy chess. Compared to conventional pieces, fairy pieces vary mostly in Rules of chess#Movement, 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 (chess), princess, empress (chess), empress, and occasionally a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
