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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.
Quatrochess is a chess variant for four players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986. [1] [2] It is played on a square 14×14 board that excludes the four central squares. Each player controls a standard set of sixteen chess pieces, and additionally nine fairy pieces. The game can be played in partnership (two opposing teams of two) or all ...
Terachess, Zanzibar Chess: Combination of Wazir and Dabbaba. See War Machine. Mage (Dragonchess) Dragonchess (3D, 1985) Queen (on middle board), Wazir (on upper or lower boards). 3D movement: can move or capture one or two cells above or below it. Maharaja: n , ~ 1/2: QN: Maharajah and the Sepoys: A royal Amazon, the only piece for White side ...
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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
The princess 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 vizir (not to be confused with the piece more commonly referred to as the wazir today, which is the (1,0) leaper).
At least five people have died after an explosion in an apartment building in The Hague, the Netherlands on Saturday, according to authorities. The blast took place around 6:15 a.m. local time ...
Before the game players choose their armies in a certain way, predefined by tournament rules. This can be done either randomly or secretly by both players. Each player has a choice of 4 armies: [3] the Fabulous FIDEs, which are the standard chess pieces, the Colorbound Clobberers, the Nutty Knights, and the Remarkable Rookies.