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Grasshopper (chess)

Index Grasshopper (chess)

The grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along ranks, files, and diagonals (as an ordinary queen) but only by hopping over another piece at any distance to the square immediately closest. [1]

13 relations: Charles Masson Fox, Chess problem, Dover Publications, Fairy chess piece, Grasshopper, Grasshopper chess, Hans L. Bodlaender, Janggi, Nenad Petrović (chess composer), The Chess Variant Pages, Thomas Rayner Dawson, Valerian Onițiu, Xiangqi.

Charles Masson Fox

Charles Masson Fox (9 November 1866 – 11 October 1935) was a Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the gay history of Edwardian England.

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Chess problem

A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche.

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Fairy chess piece

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some chess problems.

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Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are insects of the suborder Caelifera within the order Orthoptera, which includes crickets and their allies in the other suborder Ensifera.

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Grasshopper chess

Grasshopper chess is a chess variant, in which the pawns are allowed to promote to a fairy piece, the grasshopper.

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Hans L. Bodlaender

Hans Leo Bodlaender (born April 21, 1960), retrieved 2012-02-18.

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Janggi

Janggi (including romanizations changgi and jangki), sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular in Korea.

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Nenad Petrović (chess composer)

Nenad Petrović, (September 7, 1907 in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) – November 9, 1989 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) was a Croatian chess problemist.

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The Chess Variant Pages

The Chess Variant Pages is a popular non-commercial Internet website devoted to chess variants.

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Thomas Rayner Dawson

Thomas Rayner Dawson (28 November 1889 – 16 December 1951) was an English chess problemist and is acknowledged as "the father of Fairy Chess".

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Valerian Onițiu

Valerian Oniţiu (also Valeriu Oniţiu) (April 8, 1872, Sibiu, Romania – 31 December 1948, Timişoara) was a Romanian chess problemist.

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Xiangqi

Xiangqi, also called Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(chess)

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