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Piececlopedia: Zebra
Historical notes
The zebra is a fairly well known fairy chess piece, and has appeared in
chess variants under different names.
In Mideast Chess,
it is called the courtier.
Movement
The zebra is a (2,3)-jumper, i.e., it moves (with or without taking)
three squares horizontally and two vertically, or two squares horizontally and
three vertically.
It `jumps', i.e., it can move regardless
whether the intervening squares are occupied or not.
Movement diagram
In the diagram below, the zebra can move to all the squares marked with
a black circle.
This is an item in the Piececlopedia: an overview of
different (fairy) chess pieces.
Written by Ben Good.
WWW page created: January 11, 1999.
Last modified: Monday, December 22, 2008
