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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 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).
		In fairy chess any other orthodox piece or fairy piece may instead be designated royal, there may be more than one royal piece, or there may no royal pieces at all (in which case the aim of the game must be something other than to deliver checkmate).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fairy_chess_piece (2000 words)

	Chess article - Chess Persian Shah board game square pawns knights bishops rooks queen - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Chess (from the Persian word Shah) is a board game for two players played on a square board divided into eight rows (or ranks) and eight columns (or files) creating 64 individual squares which alternate in color orthogonally (traditionally as white and fl although other colours are sometimes used).
		Chess is not a game of chance; it is based solely on tactics and strategy, and for this reason, it is sometimes known by the sobriquet the "Game of Kings".
		Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art", and teaching chess has been advocated as a way to increase mental prowess.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Chess (1446 words)

	Chess
		Chess is played both recreationally and competitively in clubs[?], tournaments, on-line, and by mail (correspondence chess).
		Chess is played on a square board divided into 64 squares upon which move 16 "white" and 16 "fl" pieces.
		The most popular piece design, the "Staunton" set, was created by Nathaniel Cook[?] in 1849, endorsed by a leading player of the time Howard Staunton, and officially adopted by FIDE in 1924.
	www.fastload.org /ch/Chess.html (932 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.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/glossary.htm (4349 words)

	Chess Guide > Fairy Chess Piece
		Most fairy pieces fall into one of three classes, although it should be noted that some are hybrid pieces (see the Chinese pieces, for example, which move as riders, but capture as hoppers) and others do not fall into this scheme at all:
		A royal piece is one which cannot be allowed to be threatened with capture.
		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)

	Fairies
		Fairy chess is a generic term which was introduced before the First World War to cover all problems which are not directmates.
		Fairy chess is very popular with composers because of the unlimited scope offered for achieving originality.
		Fairy chess enthusiasts classify pieces into three groups: leapers, riders and hoppers (but be warned - some pieces do not fit into any of these categories!).
	www.bcps.knightsfield.co.uk /fairies.html (1993 words)

	Piececlopedia: Locust
		In general, the Locust refers to any Fairy Chess piece that captures an opposing piece by leaping over it: thus, Checkers/Draughts pieces are Locusts.
		To be precise: the Locust moves in horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction until it encountered an unfriendly piece.
		It jumps over that piece and goes to the first square on the line after the piece that it jumped over, which must be empty.
	www.chessvariants.org /piececlopedia.dir/locust.html (221 words)

	Chess with Chinese Pieces
		The use of fairy pieces in endgame studies is much less frequent than their use in direct mate and helpmate problems.
		Orthodox chess, with its fixed initial position and castling rule, is unlikely to be independently invented, as by an extraterrestrial civilization.
		In India the pieces were set up in a fixed position, but then White, and next Black, made several moves in a row, restricted to their side of the board (Murray, p.
	www.silcom.com /~barnowl/chess-clp.htm (4709 words)

	Chess Guide > Chess Pieces
		In chess, each player has one of two equivalent sets of pieces (each a different color) at the beginning of the game.
		Other pieces, not used in conventional chess but used in chess variants or certain kinds of chess problems, are known as fairy pieces.
		Physical chess pieces used to play a game are usually three-dimensional figurines, taller than they are wide (a set of pieces designed for a board with squares two inches wide will typically have a king around 3.75 inches tall).
	www.chess.freegames.eu.com /rules/equipment/pieces.html (232 words)

	Chess Trivia
		Also known as the American Chess Congress, it was the first American chess tournament to determine the national champion.
		It is the earliest evidence of chess among the Greeks.
		A Fairy chess piece that makes continuous knight leaps in a straight line in one direction to move or capture until it is blocked.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/n.html (566 words)

	Chess Trivia
		The police raided a chess tournament in Cleveland in 1973, arrested the tournament director and confiscated the chess sets on charges of allowing gambling (cash prizes to winners) and possession of gambling devices (the chess sets).
		At the chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires in 1939, she was prevented from playing on the German team by a Nazi edit.
		A Fairy chess piece that moves along Queen lines, but when it meets a man of either color along one of these lines, it must hop over that man to the square next beyond.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/g.html (1540 words)

	Jupiter
		The Alfil is a piece of ancient lineage, being the predecessor to the modern Bishop.
		A piece that makes two consecutive moves under the influence of a Doubler may land on a poisonous opposing piece at the end of its first move, but does not suffer poisoning if it moves to a nonpoisonous location by the end of the turn.
		If a piece to which a movement capability could be relayed already has the movement capability in question (as in the case of a Goat leaping orthogonally over a Dervish), the piece is considered to be moving under its own power, and may promote if its move starts or ends within the promotion zone.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Corridor/2164/jupiter/jupiter.html (12757 words)

	Fergus Duniho's Games
		Grotesque Chess belongs to the same family as Capablanca's Chess, Bird's Chess, and Carrera's Chess.
		Eurasian Chess is a synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess, particularly FIDE Chess and Chinese Chess.
		Interdependent Chess is a Shogi-style game played with drops, in which pieces can capture only by borrowing the usual capturing ability of the piece it moves away from.
	www.duniho.com /fergus/games/newest.html (930 words)

	Definition of Knight (chess)
		The knight (♘♞;) (or, colloquially, horse) is a piece in the game of chess, representing a knight (armoured soldier) and often depicted as a horse's head.
		In algebraic notation, the usual modern way of recording chess games, the letter N stands for the knight (K is reserved for the king); in descriptive chess notation, Kt is often used instead.
		In chess problems and endgame studies, the letter S, standing for the German name for the piece, Springer, is often used, N instead being used for the popular fairy chess piece, the nightrider.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Knight_(chess) (854 words)

	Chess Guide > Terminology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see chess problem terminology.
		With the advent of electronic chess clocks, it is often the case that the time remaining is incremented by 1 or 2 seconds per move.
		The player who captures a rook while losing a minor piece is said to have won the exchange, and his opponent is said to have lost the exchange.
	chess.go.ro /strategy-tactics/terminology/index.html (1329 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| Fairy Chess
		Whenever you capture an opponent's piece on your board, you take the piece and hand it to your ally, and he can drop the piece on his board as a legal move.
		If a king is in checkmate, the queen moved to the opponent's baseline may be promoted to king unless the baseline move would put her in check.
		Don't forget reverse chess - where the object is to lose all of your pieces first, and if you can capture a piece, you must capture a piece.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/8855 (469 words)

	: Chess on the Chess Variants Game Courier
		Move a piece by writing its present coordinate, a hyphen, and its destination coordinate.
		To signal to your opponent what piece you moved, and to provide an extra bit of error checking on the move you enter, you may include Game Courier's notation for the piece before the move.
		The inclusion of a piece does not indicate that it is used in the game you are playing.
	play.chessvariants.org /pbm/play.php (1016 words)

	Math Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In chess, it is well known that under normal circumstances, White needs (in addition to his King of course) a Queen, a Rook, 2 Bishops, or a Bishop and Knight to mate a lone Black King.
		Find a legal chess position in which we can conclude that at least one of the players has castled, but we don't know which.
		One piece that works is a King that cannot move diagonally backward.
	www.stetson.edu /~efriedma/mathmagic/0799.html (472 words)

	Piececlopedia: Leo
		The Leo is a fairy chess piece, used with a certain frequency in fairy chess problems.
		For who knows the movement of the cannon from Chinese Chess: the relation between Pao and Rook is the same as the relation between Leo and Queen.
		The only source I have on the subject, Dickins' A Guide to Fairy* Chess, says of the Leo, Vao, and Pao, 'They were introduced by T. Dawson from Chinese Chess*, probably before 1914' (11).
	www.chessvariants.org /piececlopedia.dir/leo.html (202 words)

	Beautiful and Adorable Fairy Figurine. Lovely Fairies. Check it out
		030082 - A fairy lad and lass alight on a pastel blossom to share a sweet kiss and seal their vow of enduring love for all time.
		Seated in the center of a flower, she is nicely detailed from her diaphanous wings to her delicate fingers and toes.
		032186 - A vision of delicate grace, this porcelain fairy's wings are pearlized, as is the butterfly she sweetly observes.
	www.dragons-wizard-fairy-unicorns.yepey.us /fairies-fairy.htm (565 words)

	Giraffe
		piece, used with a certain frequency in fairy chess problems.
		For who knows the movement of the cannon from Chinese Chess: the relation between
		The Leo on d5 can take the bishop on b5, the rook on d1, and the knights on g2 and g8.
	chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net /Leo.htm (87 words)

	John Beasley, 7 St James Road, Harpenden, Herts AL5 4NX, England; 0582-715858; 18 Apr 94.
		This is not really within the intended scope of this document (the "nightrider" is a fairy chess piece which moves along straight lines of squares a knight’s move apart), but like Dawson 1934 it is an interesting example of what is possible on a larger canvas.
		The first part of this article discusses the general theory of "colour-change pieces" (the squares on the board are denoted by various colours and we consider pieces wich change colour systematically with each move) and has no particular relevance to Losing Chess.
		In the case of a line-moving piece, the simplest method is to attack the knight while the White knight is on a square of the same colour, which results in transposition into a winning N v N ending.
	www.pion.ch /Losing/LCLIT3AR.html (18836 words)

	Juraj Lörinc's Chess Composition Microweb
		Participate in the 18th TT Chess Composition Microweb C 10.10.2005, 2 weeks left!
		Thematical examples for 18th TT CCM, fairy series helpmates with neutral units.
		Our 18th thematical tourney is dedicated to series helpmates with fairy elements and more phases.
	jurajlorinc.tripod.com /chess/chess.htm (355 words)

	Fiveleaper Tours
		Just as the knight makes moves of length root-5 that have coordinates {1,2}, a fiveleaper is a type of generalised knight that makes moves of length 5 units, with coordinates either {0,5} or {3,4}.
		I'm not sure when the fiveleaper was first introduced as a fairy chess piece, but T. Dawson gave an analysis of multipattern fixed-distance leapers, of which the fiveleaper is the simplest example, in Chess Amateur August 1925.
		The method of construction is to find sequences of 32 five-leaper steps that, when reflected in the horizontal axis, cover the remaining 32 squares of the board.
	www.ktn.freeuk.com /9f.htm (1429 words)

	Computer Laboratory - Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-277 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This class is general enough to include most aspects of many standard games, including Chess, Shogi, Chinese Chess, Checkers, Draughts, and many variants of Fairy Chess.
		The generator, implemented in Prolog is transparent and publicly available, and generates games using probability distributions for parameters such as piece complexity, types of movement, board size, and locality.
		The generator is illustrated by means of a new game it produced, which is then subjected to a simple strategic analysis.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-277.html (156 words)

	Lopez
		and lands on the first square after the piece it jumps.
		It jumps over that piece and goes to the first square on the line after the piece that it jumped over, which must be empty.
		Piececlopedia: an overview of different (fairy) chess pieces
	chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net /Locust.htm (156 words)

	"Sleepytown: A Southern gothic childhood, with codeine" from Harper's July92
		There was also a silver dollar, an ivory chess piece that had no particular sentimental value but that I thought was pretty, and a lock of my great-grandmother’s hair.
		The good dreams, though sometimes effortless, usually required a bit of coaxing; when the bad ones came-as they frequently did, uninvited, like the evil fairy to the wedding feast-there was no forcing them back.
		He would sit on the bed, hold my hand, and not say much; this uncharacteristic silence disturbed me, as if he were not my great-grandfather at all but some mournful, bewitched old huntsman form a storybook, tongue-tied by the bad fairy, unable to speak.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/8543/ds.htm (3390 words)

	Iran Heritage
		Pilaf: From Persian Pilav (modern Parsi speakers say Pillaw or Polo)
		Serendipity: From its possession by the heroes of the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip
		Tambourine: From Tambour which comes from Persian Tabir (tabl)
	www.iran-heritage.org /interestgroups/persianenglish2.htm (171 words)

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