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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So basically the unicorno is a queen in steroids
Thanks mam found it really informative.. and had a good glimpse of history.. would seek to see more of your contents
People say that Americans are bad at chess until they see them saccing 2 rooks to checkmate bin laden
I've always wanted to play chess with new pieces, is there anywhere I can play something like what you played?
cheese
No ONE piece should have all that power
They really liked horses huh
Hey I love this new pieces
I like how this game started from one leap moves and arrived to pieces able to cover half the board by themselves
I don’t know what was more effed up that joke or me laughing
The Amazon isn't the only piece that can mate the king with no help, The archbishop does aswell!