Chess piece middle game, endings). A for example, is worth half a pawn. In specific circumstances, the values may be quite different: A knight can be more valuable than a queen in a particular decisive attack. Courier Chess, a predecessor of modern chess, used all six chess pieces plus a courier, man (or rath or sage), and jester. Although the symbols for pieces have international standards, the characters implied by pieces' names vary between languages. For example, in many languages, the piece known in English as the "knight" is named a term that translates to "horse". Chess piece A chess piece, or
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