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A fairy chess piece (often in shortened form fairy piece) or unorthodox chess piece (or in shortened form unorthodox piece) is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. These pieces vary in movement abilities and possible additional properties.
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Some fairy pieces | |
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Archbishop (knight + bishop compound) | |
Chancellor (knight + rook compound) | |
Grasshopper (shown as an upside-down queen) | |
Nightrider or unicorn (shown as an upside-down knight) | |
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Due to distributed and uncoordinated nature of unorthodox chess development, often the same piece is referred to by different names or the same name is used for different pieces in various contexts (chess problems, various chess variants).