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
3D Great Shatranj. A simple approach to 3D chess. (6x(6x6), Cells: 216) (1)- 4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. (10x10, Cells: 100) (1)
Champagne Chess. Chess on a 12x8 board with ferfils and dragons added. (1)- 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)
- Great Shatranj. Great Shatranj. (10x8, Cells: 80) (1)
- Hannibal Chess. Chess with added Modern Elephants (ferz-alfil compound) on 10x8 board. (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)
- Mir Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
- Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
- Perfect 12. 36 pieces per player on 12 by 12 board. (12x12, Cells: 144) (1)
- Synochess. Asymmetric west vs east variant where the western chess army plays against a Chinese and Korean-inspired army. (1)
- Teramachy. A chess variant between Metamachy and Terachess. (1)
- UC-170-13. Universal Chess version featuring 170 different kind of major pieces and 13 different kind of pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
- Universal Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) (1)
Parents
- Piece - Parent tag for noting a specific type of piece in a game