Fairy chess piece that combines the power of the rook and the knight, i.e. it can move as either the rook or the knight:

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Chess variants

• Capablanca's Chess
• Gothic Chess
• Almost Chess
• Sort of Almost Chess
• Chigorin Chess
• Perfect Chess

Value

Its value is near the value of the queen, maybe a little bit less powerful than that. This is however game-dependent, and position-dependent. See also: Value of pieces.

Basic checkmate

Sufficient mating material in its own (with king).

Pieces	Result	Moves (?) – 8x8	Moves (?) – 10x8
	Win	10 – 5.6	11 – 6.4
	Win	11 – 6.7	13 – 7.8
	Win	16 – 9.9	19 – 11.4

See also: Basic endgames with fairy chess pieces.

Similar pieces

• Archbishop
• Superqueen

External links

• Wikipedia: Empress (chess)
• ChessVariants.com: The Rook-Knight Compound
• ChessVariants.com: Endgame statistics with fantasy pieces