Chess Pieces: Chess Sets, Fairy Chess Pieces, Knight, Pawn, Queen, Rook, Bishop, King, Lewis Chessmen, Chess Piece Relative Value by Source Wikipedia (Paperback / softback, 2011) for sale online

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Please te that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Chess sets, Fairy chess pieces, Knight, Pawn, Queen, Rook, Bishop, King, Lewis chessmen, Chess piece relative value, Staunton chess set, Nightrider, Grasshopper, Hippogonal. Excerpt: A fairy chess piece or urthodox chess piece is a piece analogous to a chess piece. It is t used in conventional chess, but is used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. These pieces vary in the way they move and possibly in additional properties. Because of the distributed and uncoordinated nature of urthodox chess development, often the same piece is referred to by different names or the same name is used for different pieces in various contexts (chess problems, various chess variants). Most (but t all) usual fairy chess pieces fall into one of three classes, although it should be ted that some are hybrid pieces (see the Chinese pieces, for example, which can move without capture as riders yet can only capture as hoppers). It is easy to create a new type of piece by simply combining the movement powers of two or more different pieces. Obviously the number of possible such pieces and the properties they may have are limited only by human imagination. A specialized solving program, WinChloe, recognizes more than 1200 different fairy pieces. An (m, n)-leaper is a piece that moves by a fixed type of vector between its start square and its arrival square. One of the coordinates of the vector 'start square - arrival square' must have an absolute value equal to m and the other one an absolute value equal to n. A leaper moves in the same way whether or t it captures, the taken unit being on the arrival square. For instance, the knight is the (1,2)-leaper. The leaper's move cant be blocked; it leaps over any intervening pieces, like the knight in standard chess. In shatranj, a forerunner to chess, the pieces later re...