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Questions about or involving pieces not used in orthodox chess; such as but not limited to the nightrider, archbishop, chancellor, and or amazon. Such pieces are also often referred to as "fairy pieces".
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How many different kinds of fairy leapers/riders can there be?
Just want to put in a partial solution to provide an independent count to validate other solutions.
Note that I take both zero & dummy to be legal units.
A couple of general points:
Take 0 =< p =< q
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Fairy endgame statistics for KDDDDvKN (D=dabbaba; '2,0' leaper)?
Hi welcome to chess stackexchange. If I had a Knight surely I can trade it for one of these Daddaba guys. So a simpler question is whether KDDD can beat K. If the lone K can reach the corner where he …
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16 roses, 16x16 board; maximum double-attacked squares while all 256 squares are attacked at...
Sopel hasn't been around for a couple of years, but his solution is pretty and worth posting.
The pink squares contain the 16 roses. Each rose attacks all the squares whose distance away is sqrt(5), …
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A check given by castling: is it a discovered check or a special case?
OK, so this question is for chess problemists, especially fairy problemists.
First, why does the exact classification of castling horizontal check matter? Clearly it matters whether a move is check or …
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How to solve this puzzle of Martin Gardner?
I guess that can White play 1. Nb1-a3-b5+ or Nb1-c3-b5+ or Nb1-a3-c4+, in order to be in range of the bK but not in range of the bKN.
I suppose we clarify that if the first knight move is a capture, t …
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Is there a Fairy Chess Piece that Combines the Gnurider and Queen?
ANSWER TO MAIN QUESTION
The question can be answered quickly: as far as I can see, there is no flavourful name today for the piece termed "gnurider-queen".
UNDERLYING QUESTION
So: should there be a fl …
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