What is the only chess piece that can jump over other pieces?
Empress (chess) which powerful pieces can control is decreased, and variants will then often have a greater combination of powerful pieces. Bibliography Empress (chess) An empress is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a rook, but may do so when moving as a knight. The piece has acquired many names and is frequently called chancellor or marshall (or marshal); it may also be called simply the rook+knight compound. Chess moves in this article use C as notation for the empress. The empress can move as a
Fairy chess piece is a piece that moves by jumping over another piece (called a hurdle). The hurdle can be any piece of any color. Unless it can jump over a piece, a hopper cannot move. Note that hoppers generally capture by taking the piece on the destination square, "not" by taking the hurdle (as is the case in checkers). The exceptions are locusts which are pieces that capture by hopping over its victim. They are sometimes considered a type of hopper. There are no hoppers in Western chess. In xiangqi, the cannon captures as a hopper (when not capturing, it is a