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  2. Wazir (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The wazir is a very old piece, appearing in some very early chess variants, such as Tamerlane chess. The wazir also appears in some historical large shogi variants, such as in dai shogi under the name angry boar (嗔猪 shinchō). The general in xiangqi moves like a wazir but may not leave its palace or end its turn in check.

  3. Wazir - Wikipedia

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    Wazir (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves one space in an orthogonal direction; Wazir, a 2016 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar; Wazir (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Waziristan, Pakistan; Wazir (Khogyani clan), a tribe in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

  4. List of fairy chess pieces - Wikipedia

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    Moves like non-leaping King+Dabbaba, captures like non-leaping Wazir+Dabbaba; on lower board. 3D movement: Can move or capture on any non-leaping Wazir pattern above or below. Elephant (Chinese) 2X: nA: Dai shogi, Shōgi, Xiangqi: A (2,2)-leaper but cannot jump over an intervening piece. In xianqi the Elephant is restricted to its half of the ...

  5. Fairy chess piece - Wikipedia

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    The king of standard chess combines the ferz and wazir, ignoring restrictions on check and checkmate and ignoring castling. ... Problemesis (in French and English ...

  6. Quatrochess - Wikipedia

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    The chancellor moves as a chess rook and knight. The archbishop moves as a chess bishop and knight. The mann moves as a chess king, but has no royal power. The wazir moves one step orthogonally in any direction. The ferz moves one step diagonally in any direction. The camel leaps in a (1,3) pattern like an elongated knight's move. It jumps over ...

  7. Wazir (film) - Wikipedia

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    Based on an original story by Chopra, Wazir follows the story of a suspended Anti-Terrorism Squad officer who befriends a chess player who is a wheelchair user. The idea of the film came to Chopra in the 1990s and he started writing it in English with Joshi over a period of four years starting in 2000.

  8. 20 Hollywood stars who've never won an Oscar

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    The Oscars are on Sunday, March 2. Edward Norton and Cynthia Erivo are two of this year's nominees who've never won an Oscar before. Norton received his fourth nomination for best actor in a ...

  9. 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.