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
Wazir (chess) Wazir (chess) A wazir (or vizir) is a fairy chess piece that moves like a rook, but can go only one square. In notation, it is given the symbol W. In this article, the wazir is represented by an inverted rook. The wazir is a very old piece, appearing in some very early chess variants, such as Tamerlane chess. The general in xiangqi moves like a wazir, but has additional restrictions involving check and where it can move. It also appears in some historical large shogi variants, such as dai shogi, under the name "angry boar" (嗔猪 "shinchō"). The name