Explore: Chess_pieces

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

incorporated into certain chess variants and some unorthodox chess problems, known as fairy chess. Compared to conventional pieces, fairy pieces vary mostly in the

representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface. The inclusion of the chess symbols

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

Dunsany's Chess (and the similar Horde chess): One side has standard chess pieces, and the other side has 32 pawns. Handicap chess (or Chess with odds)

forms are represented by the pieces that would evolve into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook, respectively. Chess was introduced to Persia from

as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following

or chase pieces in a way such that the moves fall in a cycle, preventing the opponent from winning. While this is accepted in Western chess, in xiangqi

is the most common, and is usually required for competition. Chess sets come with pieces in two colors, referred to as white and black, regardless of

the rules for fast chess, correspondence chess, online chess, and Chess960. Besides the basic moves of the pieces, rules also govern the equipment used,