Knight (chess) of chaturanga in India around the 6th century. Similar pieces are found in almost all games of the chess family. The "ma" of xiangqi and janggi are slightly more restricted; conceptually, the piece is considered to pass through the adjacent orthogonal square, which must be unoccupied, rather than "jumping". Another related piece is the "keima" of shogi, which moves like a knight but may only move two squares forward followed by one square sideways, restricting its movement to two possible squares. Unicode defines two codepoints for knight: ♘ U+2658 White Chess Knight (HTML ♘) ♞ U+265E Black Chess Knight (HTML
Virtual Chess 64 Virtual Chess 64 Virtual Chess 64 is a chess simulation game for the Nintendo 64. It was released in 1998. The game features no true "completion" in the form of a goal or a score, so one could theoretically play an endless number of matches. When a piece is captured, a short animated cutscene plays back depicting the battle, as in 1988's "Battle Chess". "Virtual Chess 64" came with a basic text and visual tutorial written for beginners and novices about how to play chess. In the third section the tutorial continues explaining how to play using simple chess positions