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Not as bad as the elephant, but not that useful either.

It controls sixteen squares on a standard chessboard. It jumps two squares like the elephant, but vertically and horizontally. It is colourbound, and only ever controls eight squares of a standard board. The elephant jumps two squares diagonally. This piece is also used in Chaturanga, replacing the bishop. At least it isn't colourbound, like the ferz. The wazir moves like the rook, but one square at a time. If the rook was dad, then this piece would be great-grandad. There are other better fairy pieces to learn about.Īnother slow piece. Imagine how slow the game was then! In fact, you could experience the slowness by clicking the above link, but I suggest you not to, and finish reading this blog first. In ancient Chaturanga, this piece replaced the queen. This piece can only move one square diagonally, making it even worse, colourbound. They might think a pawn shield is good for their queen, but no! Put your grasshopper on the board, and its suicide instead! This powerful piece can take your opponents by surprise. Then, instead of capturing it or something, it leaps over it, landing directly behind it (one square from where the other piece is). It can be its own pieces or its opponent's. It looks for any piece it can move towards as if it was a queen. This piece can take your opponents by surprise! It can do effective forks, since it can use different distances. Moves like a knight and a camel combined. A pretty interesting piece, but not much usage. It jumps like a knight, but in a 4x2 diagonal instead of a 3x2 diagonal. For a bit of information, the man moves like the king but is non-royal (can be captured like a normal piece and cannot be checked or mated). Keep in mind that knights are somewhat useful in the endgame as well. In king and pawn endgames, this can be useful for stopping passed pawns, since it can move one step. Being just a man, it isn't prone to any checks, captures or checkmates. The general is a combination of the man and the knight. Can be useful in closed positions with lots of pawns, just like the chancellor. Despite having a bishop's powers, it is not colourbound, so this makes the archibishop much easier to use. With the bishop's underside, it looks a little awkward, so I wish made this piece a little more elegant.

This piece combines the knight and the bishop.

Once it jumps over the pawn walls, it can invade the opponent territory with its ranged rook powers.

When the position is closed, with lots of pawns still on the board, the chancellor comes in handy, since it has knight powers. When the position is open, the queen is very useful.

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The queen is a rook and bishop, making it full range. This piece combines the ranged rook with a leaping knight. That period of time was called the Mad Queen. All other pieces at that time resembled today's ches s. This piece was in standard chess during the 13~15 centuries, replacing the queen. This piece can checkmate an opponent king on its own and is known as the most powerful piece in chess history. This piece combines the already powerful queen with the leaping knight, making it even more powerful. There are fairy pawns as well, and since they can only move forwards like a standard pawn, I will compare it to the standard pawn only. I expect you all know the chess pieces and how they move, right? You would know all about the othordox pieces like the knight and the rook, but how about the unothordox ones like the xiangqi horse or the all powerful amazon? In this blog, I will list all the fairy pieces (chess pieces not in the standard game, aka unothordox) on and give a description of them.

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