Welcome to the top 10 forgotten chess pieces! We visit several historic chess variants.
Chess has had a long evolution, and the pieces that we are used to today did not just arrive fully formed as we know them.
Many varied and exotic pieces have battled it out on chess boards all across time and space.
This list is a list of my favourites, ordered from weakest to strongest.
10. Elephant / Al-fil
9. Ferz / Advisor / Minister
8. Jester / Wazir / Schleich
7. The Man
6. Lion
5. Centaur / Princess / Archbishop
4. Unicornio
3. Empress / Chancellor
2. Aanca
1. Amazon
Some chess variants featured in this video:
Shatranj
Grande Acedrex
Capablanca Chess
Here are two very old games of Shatranj, featuring the Elephant and the Ferz, that I have covered in the past:
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1:47 Shatranj is an alternative term for Chess in Arabic, Sindhi , Persian and in Urdu. Old laws or Mughal Chess does not mean that Shatranj شطرنج is a variant of Chess , but just an Alternative word for chess , in the said above languages. So Shataranj is an other word for Chess. If some one disagree he may see Eng,ish Arabic , English Persian etc. dictionaries.
1:47 Shatranj is an alternative term for Chess in Arabic, Sindhi , Persian and in Urdu. Old laws or Mughal Chess does not mean that Shatranj شطرنج is a variant of Chess , but just an Alternative word for chess , in the said above languages. So Shataranj is an other word for Chess. If some one disagree he may see Eng,ish Arabic , English Persian etc. dictionaries.
Centaur is قنطور in Arabic, Sindhi, Persian Pushtu etc. 7:52
2:54 Please note Shataranj is an other word for chess, the same error is repeated.
2:34 Wazeer is just an other word for Queen. We do not consider Wazeer وزير as any piece other than the queen. So Wazeer may be translated in English as Minister the Queen is called as Wazeer in Arabic , Persian , Sindhi. Pushtu and Urdu.
Please clarify these things in an other video.