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2. Knight (chess) - Wikipedia

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   When moving, the knight can jump over pieces to reach its destination. [a] [b] [4] Knights capture in the same way, replacing the enemy piece on the square and removing it from the board. A knight can have up to eight available moves at once. Knights and pawns are the only pieces that can be moved in the chess starting position. [4]

3. Nightrider (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The nightrider, alternatively spelled knightrider and also known as the knightmare or unicorn (though the latter term sometimes refers to 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 by an altered version of the knight's icon. [1]

4. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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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 of six types: king , queen , rook , bishop , knight , or pawn .

5. Empress (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The empress is one of the most simply described fairy chess pieces and as such has a long history and has gone by many names. It was first used in Turkish Great Chess, a large medieval variant of chess, where it was called the war machine (dabbabah; not to be confused with the piece more commonly referred to as the dabbaba today, which is the (2,0) leaper).

6. Amazon (chess) - Wikipedia

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   An icon for the amazon used in diagrams. The amazon, also known as the queen+knight compound or 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 king (because it cannot castle and does not know when it is under threat via the check rule) and the pawn (because it cannot practice en passant).

7. Checkmate pattern - Wikipedia

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   An enemy pawn or a piece other than a knight is used to restrict the enemy king's movement. It is a type of Anderssen's mate and closely resembles Mayet's mate . The checkmate was named after its implementation by Paul Morphy in 1858 at a game at the Paris opera against Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard; see Opera game .

8. Camel (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The camel or long knight is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. [1] It can jump three squares horizontally and one square vertically or three squares vertically and one square horizontally, regardless of intervening pieces. Therefore, it is a (1,3)-leaper. [1] [2] [3] The piece commonly represented in diagrams as an inverted knight.

9. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

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   Extinction chess – the objective is to capture all of a particular type of piece of the opponent (e.g., both knights, all pawns, or the queen). Crazyhouse – a captured piece can be introduced back to the board by the player who captured it, as a piece of his own. Knight relay chess – pieces defended by a knight may move as a knight ...