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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 .
The ferz is a very old piece, appearing in chaturanga and shatranj, the ancestors of all chess variants; it also featured in games such as Tamerlane chess. The ferz was a standard chess piece until the modern moves of queen and bishop were developed around the 15th century, with the ferz being replaced by the former.
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
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The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. [1] It can jump four squares vertically and one square horizontally or four squares horizontally and one square vertically, regardless of intervening pieces; thus, it is a (1,4)- leaper .
The Clonard chess piece is an historic bone or ivory playing piece depicting a queen seated on a throne, found in a bog in Clonard, Co. Meath, Ireland, some time before 1817. The piece dates from the late twelfth century AD and is now in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
An icon for the amazon used in diagrams. The amazon, also known as the queen+knight compound or the dragon, is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight.It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the king (because it cannot castle and does not know when it is under threat via the check rule) and the pawn (because it cannot practice en passant).
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