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The ferz or fers is a fairy chess piece that may move one square diagonally. It was used in orthodox chess and in Shatranj form of chess before being replaced...

squares diagonally (onto a same-colored square) for its first move. The fers changed into the queen over time. The first surviving mention of this piece...

the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each square...

The queen was originally the fers or farzin, which could move one square diagonally in any direction. In European chess it became able to leap two squares...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

shatranj around the 7th century. In shatranj, a pawn can be promoted only to a fers (equivalent to chaturanga's mantri). As chaturanga and shatranj spread to...

of unorthodox chess, from fairy chess problems and chess variants (including historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces. The columns...

in any diagonal direction (as fers in shatranj). Sin (Burmese: ဆင်, "elephant", analogous to the bishop in Western chess) 2 pieces per player. It can move...

standard chess army, each side controls a chancellor, archbishop, mann, wazir, fers, two camels, and two giraffes. By George Dekle Sr. Three-Man Chess: Three...

Shāh ("king" in Persian) moves like the king in chess. Ferz (Wazir) ("counselor"; also spelled fers; Arabic firz, from Persian فرزين farzīn) moves exactly...

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...

diagonally in any direction, like the fers in shatranj. Ratha (chariot) (also known as Shakata) moves the same as a rook in chess: horizontally or vertically,...

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...

queen. The baras (ᠪᠠᠷᠰ or ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠰ, tiger; Persian: fers) moves like a promoted rook in shogi: like a chess rook or one square diagonally. It was called half-power...

using backgammon pieces, thereby each piece was called a "fers", the same name as the chess queen, as the move of the two pieces was the same at the time)...

Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a turn-based strategy chess-like video game developed by Hammerfall Publishing for Microsoft Windows, iOS and Android, set...

Championship Manager, a popular football management simulation game Chessmaster, a chess computer program series C minor, abbreviated Cm, a minor scale or chord...

Common Celtic. The game is often compared to or identified with chess, though chess was unknown in Europe until the 12th century. The Old Irish form...

designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed as the centerpiece of the 1889...

Company, a London digital film special effects company Chess Federation of Canada, Canada's national chess organization Citizens for Conservation Compass Family...