The Piece: Squirrel Tag

Description

The Squirrel, a compound piece of Dabbaba, Knight, and Alfil (DAN), is known under several alternative names: Centurion, Castle, or Bear. It jumps to any square on the second perimeter.

Tagged Pages

• Bear Chess. A popular Russian game; bears leap to second perimeter.
• Carrousel Chess. Game with 32 pieces. (16x4, Cells: 64)
• Carrousel Chess. Circular chess using reflecting bishops & sqirrels, not Bs & Ns.
• Courier Chess (modified). Missing description (8x12, Cells: 96)
• Mideast chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board, inspired by ancient Tamerlane chess. (10x10, Cells: 100)
• Quintessential chess. Large chess variants, with some pieces moving with a sequence of knight moves in a zigzag line. (10x10, Cells: 84)
• Renniassance Chess. With 68 pieces on board of 12 by 12. (12x10, Cells: 120)
• Samarcanda. Variant of Mideast Chess with Crooked Bishops. (10x10, Cells: 100)
• Squirrel. Jumps two orthogonally, two diagonally, or like a knight.
• Trophy Hunt. Squirrels and Elephants instead of Kings, Queens and Bishops. (8x8, Cells: 64)
• UC-170-13. Universal Chess version featuring 170 different kind of major pieces and 13 different kind of pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64)

Parents

• Piece - Parent tag for noting a specific type of piece in a game