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Upside-down chess: The white and black pieces are switched so that White's pieces are on the 8th rank, with pawns on the 7th rank, one step away from promotion. The starting position looks like a standard chess starting position, but from the other player's perspective.
Under US Chess Federation rules and in casual play, an upside-down rook may designate a queen. [ 9 ] [ 11 ] [ note 1 ] However, according to FIDE arbiter guidelines, such a move is treated as a legal promotion to a rook (not an illegal move, which would incur a time penalty).
The defeated king is turned upside-down and left as an obstacle for the remaining players. It cannot be captured or removed from the board. In some descriptions of the game, the winner is the first player to checkmate twice, or to checkmate a player who has already checkmated another.
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The nightrider is worth about 5 pawns, similar to the rook.It can control up to 12 squares on an 8×8 board as opposed to the rook's 14. It is stronger than the rook in the opening and middlegame, as it can more easily maneuver around pieces than the rook, but the rook is stronger in the endgame.
The Berolina pawn (also known as Berlin pawn, [1] anti-pawn, or simply Berolina) is a popular [2] fairy chess piece based on the pawn.It may move one vacant square diagonally forward, it may move two vacant squares forward along a diagonal on its first move, and it may capture one square vertically forward.
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Using an upside-down Rook, sideways pawn etc is an illegal move and will be penalised by the arbiter. The correct procedure is to stop the clocks and call the arbiter to provide the required piece. See FIDE rules of chess, articles 6.12 and 7.4.