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Chess variant on a wider board with fairy chess piece, the nightrider. It is the extension of the knight: it can continue leaping in the same direction while the touched fields are empty (like e.g. the bishop).

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The number of nightriders is adjustable from one to four.

Otherwise the rules of chess apply, with the following differences:

• Castling: the king moves three squares, and the rook moves two or three squares, depending on the side (see diagram below).
• Pawns can also promote to nightrider. They can promote to knight only if there were knights in the beginning.

Similar variants

• Nightrider Chess
• Nightrider Chess II.

Inventor

The piece: T. R. Dawson, 1925^[wiki]; this particular chess variant: Uray M. János, 2017

External links

• Wikipedia: Nightrider (chess)
• ChessVariants.com: Nightrider