Fairy chess piece
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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 unortho
Fragment of a chessboard and chess pieces from 17th-century Russia. This may once have been a "standard" form of chess in a particular area.
Chancellor Chess Piece
Archbishop Chess Piece
Great chess
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Great chess or Large chess is a family of large board historical chess variants which were played in the Middle East and Central Asia. Great chess includes variants played on larger chessboards like T
12th century Iranian shatranj set from Nishapur.
Left to right: the faras (knight), zurafa (giraffe), pil (elephant), and tali'a (picket)
Timur The Conqueror, the eponym of the game