The Piece: Modern Elephant Tag

Description

The compound of Ferz and Alfil occurs in many recent Chess Variants and is named Modern Elephant or simply Elephant in many of them. Other names for this piece include Fearful, Ferfil, Falafel, or Archer.

Tagged Pages

• Courier Chess (modified). Missing description (8x12, Cells: 96) (1)
• Courier-Spiel. 19th century variant of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) (1)
• Enhanced Courier Chess. Courier Chess with the weaker pieces enhanced. (1)
• Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
• Maasai Chess. Large CV with 48 pieces per side, of 20 types including both regular and rapid Pawns. (1)
• Metamachy. Large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces. (1)
• Perfect 12. 36 pieces per player on 12 by 12 board. (12x12, Cells: 144) (1)
• Shako. Cannons and elephants are added in variant on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (1)
• Teramachy. A chess variant between Metamachy and Terachess. (1)

Parents

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