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Fairy Chess


A variation of chess involving a change in the form of the board, the rules of play, or the pieces used. For example, the normal rules of chess can be used but with a cylindrical or Möbius strip connection of the edges.

A graph formed by the possible moves of fairy chess pieces known as leapers may be termed a leaper graph. Such graphs generalize the knight graph.


See also

Chess, Leaper Graph

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References

Kraitchik, M. "Fairy Chess." §12.2 in Mathematical Recreations. New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 276-279, 1942.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Fairy Chess." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FairyChess.html

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