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  Fairy chess piece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems.
In shatranj, a forerunner to chess, the pieces later replaced by the bishop and queen were also leapers: the alfil was a (2,2) leaper (moving exactly two squares diagonally in any direction), and the fers a (1,1) leaper (that is, it can move one square diagonally in any direction).
There are three riders in orthodox chess: the rook can move an unlimited number of (1,0) cells and is therefore a (1,0) rider; the bishop is a (1,1) rider; and the queen is a (1,1) or (1,0) rider.
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 Rules of chess - Chess rules for playing chess
Each chess piece has a defined starting point or square with the dark chess pieces aligned on one side of the board and the light pieces on the other.
Remember, as per the chess rules, the queen is always on her own color while the king is always on the opposite color.
Neither of the chess pieces involved, your king or rook that is being castled, have been moved during the chess game.
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 IBM Research | Deep Blue | Overview
The form of chess notation by using a combination of letters and numbers - a to h and 1 to 8 - which denote the 64 squares on a board.
Chess does not have referees or umpires, it has Arbiters for the enforcement of the rules, and Directors for the organisation of tournaments (a distinction recognized in America).
The blocking of a pawn or pawns by a piece or pieces.
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 Chess Guide > Fairy Chess Piece
A leaper is a piece which moves a fixed distance and which can jump over any pieces between its departure and destination squares.
In shatranj, a forerunner to chess, the pieces which were later replaced by the bishop and queen were also leapers: the alfil was a (2,2) leaper (moving exactly two squares diagonally in any direction), and the fers a (1,1) leaper (that is, it can move one square diagonally in any direction).
The most common Chinese pieces are the leo, pao and vao (each of which are drevied from the Chinese cannon) and the mao (derived from the horse).
www.chess.freegames.eu.com /variants/fairy_chess_piece.html   (1595 words)

  
 Chess Glossary
An active piece is more likely to have a positive influence in the outcome of a game than an inactive piece (a cramped, blocked, or undeveloped piece).
The movement of a minor or major piece from the departure cell to the arrival cell and to capture a enemy piece in the process.
A piece 'en prise' is often the result of a blunder.
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 Chess Pieces - ChessBaron Chess
The chess pieces are highly glossed and note the knights little cheeky smile for a slight touch of humour in a classy set of chess pieces.
The wood is chidar and the dark pieces are ebonised (the process to cause the wood to darken and appear as an ebony wood piece).
Some of the higher end of the chess sets section could easily belong in the luxury chess pieces part, they are triple weighted chess pieces with excellence of design and craftmanship.
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 Illustrated rules of chess
The piece that is jumped over is further not affected by the knight: as usual, a knight takes a piece of the opponent by moving to the square that contains that piece.
The king does not move over a square that is attacked by an enemy piece during the castling move, i.e., when castling, there may not be an enemy piece that can move (in case of pawns: by diagonal movement) to a square that is moved over by the king.
The king does not move to a square that is attacked by an enemy piece during the castling move, i.e., you may not castle and end the move with the king in check.
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 Chess piece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In chess each player has one of two sets of pieces (each a different color) the beginning of the game.
Physical chess pieces used to play a are usually three-dimensional figurines taller than they wide (a set of pieces designed for board with squares two inches wide will have a king around 3.75 inches tall).
Some small magnetic sets designed to be have pieces more like those used in Shogi and Xiangqi - each piece being a similar token with a symbol drawn on it show which piece it is.
www.freeglossary.com /Chess_piece   (487 words)

  
 John Greschak - Connections between Music and Chess
This is a 60-minute piece for two players performing at a chessboard controller for samplers and synthesizers (16 modules) with additional live musicians on piano, turntables/electronics, guitars and saxophones.
The piece was performed on July 2, 1987 by the performance-duo consisting of Wolfgang von Stuermer and Dietrich Eichmann (under the name FIQ (Fraktion Illegaler Quomponisten)) with guests Christoph Grund, Uwe Kremp and Reimar Volker at the festival Belluard/Bollwerk in Fribourg, Switzerland.
For example, in chess, a person who creates puzzles and problems to be solved is called a composer, and two different sequences of moves that lead from one given position to another are said to be related by transposition.
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 Egyptian Chess Piece Set
Our Egyptian Chess piece set includes 32 pieces and each piece is meticulously hand painted and is casted in poly resin.
Height of the chess pieces range from 2" to 3" in height and each piece is weighted, made from durable Alabastrite.
This is the chess pieces only, we have many different chess boards available seperately on sale to choose from.
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 TheChessPiece Online Chess Store sells chess sets, chess pieces, electronic computer chess and other chess supplies; ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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