Knight (chess) king); in descriptive chess notation, "Kt" is sometimes used instead, mainly in older literature. In chess problems and endgame studies, the letter "S", standing for the German name for the piece, "Springer", is often used (and in some variants of fairy chess "N" is used for the popular fairy chess piece, the nightrider). Even among sets of the standard Staunton pattern, the style of the pieces varies. The knights vary considerably. Here are some examples. The knight, along with the king and the rook, has the oldest defined movement of any chess piece, its movement being unchanged since the invention
Fairy chess piece from e4 to f5 (first the ferz move) then g5, h4, h3, g2, f2, e3, and back to e4, effectively passing a turn, and could also start from e4 to f4 (first the wazir move) then g5, g6, f7, e7, d6, d5, and back to e4. Example: The standard chess pawn can be described as mfWcfF (ignoring the initial double move). There is no standard order of the components and modifiers. In fact, Betza often plays with the order to create somehow pronounceable piece names and artistic word play. Betza does not use the small letter i. It is used