Fairy chess piece (1,0)-rider which cannot jump). The grasshopper moves along the same lines as a queen, hopping over another piece and landing on the square immediately beyond it. Compound pieces combine the powers of two or more pieces. The archbishop, chancellor, and amazon are three popular compound pieces, combining the powers of minor orthodox chess pieces. When one of the combined pieces is a knight, the compound may be called a "knighted" piece. The archbishop, chancellor, and amazon are the knighted bishop, knighted rook, and knighted queen respectively. When one of the combined pieces is a king, the compound may be called
Fairy chess piece So for example, if white moves a bishop, black can follow by moving the joker as a bishop. A royal piece is one which must not be allowed to be captured. If a royal piece is threatened with capture and cannot avoid capture the next move, then the game is lost (a generalization of checkmate). In orthodox chess, the kings are royal. In fairy chess any other piece may instead be royal, and there may be more than one, or none at all (in which case the winning condition must be some other goal, such as capturing all of the