Amazon (chess) Amazon (chess) An amazon (also known as a queen+knight compound) is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight (or, equivalently, like a rook, bishop, or knight). It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces (not including pawns, nor the royal powers of a king). It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a queen, but may do so when moving as a knight. In diagrams in this article, the amazon is represented by an inverted rook. Chess moves in this article use A as notation for the amazon. The
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