Neutral Chess Turned Queen

Usually a grasshopper; the problem’s legend has the final say. Fairy chess adds pieces or rules to chess problems. A grasshopper travels along rows, columns, or diagonals like a queen, but must hop over a piece and land on the next square. It was introduced in 1913 and is commonly drawn as an upside-down queen.

The convention is a useful clue, not a fixed definition. A Unicode discussion in 2015 describes rotated symbols as placeholders whose identities each problem can assign, so this character may stand for another piece when the legend says so.

Read it as notation, not a chat reaction

Fairy-chess problems use compact diagrams and notation for pieces that standard chess does not have. A 2012 Unicode proposal documents figurine-notation examples from printed problem magazines and solutions. When a piece symbol sits beside a square, read them as one notation unit: 🨫a4 associates the fairy-chess piece with square a4.

Outside chess, ask what piece they mean

If this arrives without a chess diagram, the shape alone cannot tell you whether the sender means a grasshopper or another piece defined by a problem. Ask what piece or problem they have in mind when the distinction matters.