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
Algebraic notation (chess) Philipp Stamma. Stamma used the modern names of the squares, but he used "p" for pawn moves and the original of a piece ("a" through "h") instead of the initial letter of the piece name. This article describes standard algebraic notation (SAN) required by FIDE. Each square of the chessboard is identified by a unique coordinate pair—a letter and a number. The vertical columns of squares, called ', are labeled "a" through "h" from White's left (the ) to right (the ). The horizontal rows of squares, called ', are numbered "1" to "8" starting from White's side of the