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The pawn has the power of a wazir, but only forward and for movement; the power of a ferz, but only forward and for capturing; the power of a rook with a limited range of 2 squares, but only forward, without capturing, and on its first move; the power to be replaced by a more powerful piece, but only upon reaching its last rank; and the power ...
Either one square diagonal followed by an orthogonal slide outwards or an orthogonal slide followed by one square diagonal outwards. More powerful than the Gryphon. (Note that a Cavalier is a Knight in French). Centaur ~ 1/2, 1 : KN
The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck.It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces.
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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).
The wazir by itself is not much more powerful than a pawn, but as an additional power to other pieces, it is worth about half a knight.. Three wazirs and a king can force checkmate against a bare king and two wazirs and a king can force stalemate against a bare king, but not easily.
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).
The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess.It may move to any adjoining square; it may also perform, in tandem with the rook, a special move called castling.