Fairy chess piece for more than just a few piece types. One challenge of producing such a summary is that piece values are dependent upon the size of boards they are played on, and the combination of other pieces on the board. On an 8×8 board, the standard chess pieces (pawn, knight, bishop, rook, and queen) are usually given values of 1, 3, 3, 5, and 9 respectively. When the basic pieces wazir (W), ferz (F), and mann (WF = K), are played with a similar mix of pieces, they are typically valued at around 1, 1.5, and 3 points respectively. Three popular
Fairy chess piece David Parlett used a notation to describe fairy piece movements. The move is specified in the form m={"expression"}, where "m" stands for "move", and the "expression" is composed from the following elements: The following can be added to Parlett's to make it more complete: The format (not including grouping) is: <conditions> <move type> <distance> <direction> <other> On this basis, the traditional chess moves (excluding castling and "en passant" capture) are: Ralph Betza created a classification scheme for fairy chess pieces (including standard chess pieces) in terms of the moves of basic pieces with modifiers. Capital letters stand for basic leap