What 🨮 means
It marks a neutral nightrider, not a standard knight. Fairy chess means chess problems with added pieces or rules. A nightrider repeats the knight's two-square-and-one-square jump in one direction. It can leap over pieces between its landing squares, but a piece on a landing square blocks it; it can capture an opponent there. Neutral means either side may move or capture it.
The chess-problem composer W. S. Andrews invented the nightrider in 1907. Thomas Rayner Dawson first used and named it in fairy-chess problems in 1925. The turned-knight form marks the neutral version of this piece.
Specialist notation for fairy-chess problems.
Do not treat it as a standard knight: it makes repeated knight jumps along one line.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🨮 show as a box?
A font or app without a glyph for this character shows a box or replacement mark. A font that supports the Chess Symbols block can display it.
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How to type or find 🨮
- Also called
- nightrider
- Search it as
- neutral nightrider · fairy chess · fairy-chess notation · turned knight · neutral knight · chess problem
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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