Grasshopper chess
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Grasshopper chess is a chess variant in which pawns can promote to the fairy piece grasshopper. The grasshopper (shown as an inverted queen) moves as a queen but must jump over a piece and land one square past the piece that they jump in order to move or capture.
In some variations, grasshoppers may also be present on the board in the opening position, in addition to the usual pieces. For example, pawns can be moved forward and grasshoppers put along the 2nd and 7th ranks[1] as shown in the diagram. Another possibility is to replace queens with grasshoppers in the initial position,[2] where pawns are not allowed to take two steps on their initial move, but still promote to queens.
References
[edit]- ^ J. Boyer (1951). Les Jeux D'Echecs Non Orthodoxes.
- ^ Pritchard, D. B. (1994). "Grasshopper II". The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. p. 131. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1.
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