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2. Fairy chess piece - Wikipedia

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   A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some unorthodox chess problems, known as fairy chess. Compared to conventional pieces, fairy pieces vary mostly in the way they move, but they may also follow ...

3. List of fairy chess pieces - Wikipedia

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   A fairy chess piece is a game piece that is not in regular chess but appears in an alternate version of chess with different rules. Such an alternate version is known as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess.

4. Fairy chess - Wikipedia

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   Fairy chess is the area of chess composition in which there are some changes to the rules of chess. It may involve changes to the board, pieces, or rules to express an idea or theme impossible in orthodox chess. An altered piece used in fairy chess is known as a fairy chess piece. The term fairy chess was introduced by Henry Tate in 1914.

5. Princess (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The princess is a fairy chess piece that can move like a bishop or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a bishop but may do so when moving as a knight. The piece has acquired many names and is frequently called an archbishop, a cardinal, or a dragon; [a] it may also simply be called the bishop+knight compound. The princess ...

6. Category:Fairy chess pieces - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Fairy chess pieces" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *

7. 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).