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  2. Lewis chessmen - Wikipedia

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    Lewis chessmen. The Lewis chessmen ( Scottish Gaelic: Fir-thàilisg Leòdhais [fiɾʲˈhaːlɪʃkʲ loː.ɪʃ]) or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, [1] are a group of distinctive 12th century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on Lewis ...

  3. Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard - Wikipedia

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    The game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard consist of ninety-three game pieces of the Lewis chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Medieval in origin, they were first exhibited in Edinburgh in 1831 but it is unclear how much earlier they had been discovered. The hoard comprised seventy-eight distinctive chess ...

  4. List of fairy chess pieces - Wikipedia

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    Chess.com Colorless piece, doesn't move or capture, nor can be captured. compare with Dummy, Pyramid, Transparent Wall and Zero. Wallaby: 1 , 2 (over friendly pieces) KgQ2 (over friendly pieces), KcjQ2: Edgehog Chess III (P. Aronson) Combination of omni-directional Checker and Grasshopper restricted to 2 squares over friendly pieces. Waran: WA

  5. 2000 A.D. (chess variant) - Wikipedia

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    2000 A.D. (chess variant) The Gorgon —a fearsome creature in Greek mythology and in Parton's 2000 A.D. 2000 A.D. is a chess variant created by V. R. Parton which employs fairy chess pieces on a 10×10 board. [1] [2] Parton published the variant in his 1972 monograph My Game for 2000 A.D. and After .

  6. 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 chess problems. Compared to conventional pieces, fairy pieces vary mostly in the way they move, but they may also follow special rules for capturing ...

  7. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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    A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn . Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color. Additional pieces, usually an extra queen per color, may be provided for ...

  8. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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    The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [3] [4] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton , who endorsed it; [2] the first ...

  9. Rook (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The rook ( / rʊk /; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture an enemy piece on its path; it may participate in castling. Each player starts the game with two rooks, one in each corner on their side of the board. Formerly, the rook (from Persian ...

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