Fairy chess piece a "crowned" piece. The crowned knight combines the knight with the king's moves. The dragon king of shogi is a crowned rook (rook + king). Marine pieces are compound pieces consisting of a rider (for ordinary moves) and a locust (for captures) in the same directions. Marine pieces have names alluding to the sea and its myths, e.g., nereide (marine bishop), mermaid (marine queen), or poseidon (marine king). Some classes of pieces come from a certain game, and will have common characteristics. Examples are the pieces from xiangqi, a Chinese game similar to chess. The most common are the "leo",
Chess Crusade but there is one little twist to this game. With every chess piece you takeover, the game cuts into an animated clip where one piece devours another piece in a creative yet funny way. This gives the game a meaning and a reason for the consumer to keep playing the game. Chess Crusade Chess Crusade is a video game of the board game genre developed in 2008 by British studio Slam Games. "Chess Crusade" follows the game of chess featuring animations between chess pieces, as these medieval themed characters confront each other on the chess board. As the pieces move