Exchange (chess) to as a "recapture". Commonly, the word "exchange" is used when the pieces exchanged are of the same type or of about equal value, which is an "even exchange". According to chess tactics, a bishop and a knight are usually of about equal value. If the values of the pieces exchanged are not equal, then the player who captures the higher value of piece(s) can be said to be "up the exchange" or "wins the exchange", while the opponent who captures the lower value of piece(s) is "down the exchange" or "loses the exchange". Exchanges occur very frequently in chess,
Madrasi chess on g2). In addition to Madrasi RI, another variant is Isardam ("Madrasi" spelled backwards), in which only moves that do not lead to a Madrasi paralysis are legal. Madrasi chess Madrasi chess is a chess variant invented in 1979 by Abdul Jabbar Karwatkar. The game uses the conventional rules of chess with the addition that when a piece is attacked by a piece of the same type but opposite colour (for example, a black queen attacking a white queen) it is paralysed and becomes unable to move, capture or give check. Most of the time, two like pieces attack each