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A few miscellaneous entries from the Chess Variant Pages Piece names capricorn - a hook mover moving on diagonal lines. Occurs in several large shogi variants hook mover - a hook mover on horizontal and vertical lines. Occurs in several large shogi variants querquisite - a piece that has the moves of the piece on its current file in the FIDE starting position. Synonym: oddyseus (see A. Sibahi: Querquisite Chess, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSquerquisiteche ) Piece terms divergent piece - A piece with different capturing and non-capturing moves. Synonym: Sniper Source: A. J. Winkelspecht: Divergent Chess http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/contest/divergentchess.html hook mover - a piece that can optionally turn 90 degrees and move on. It can capture on its final square only. From large shogi variants. igui capture - restricted rifle capture of lion movers, capture on a adjacent square without moving lion mover - a piece that can do two moves in one turn, including the possibilities to capture two pieces in one turn, to pass the turn, or to capture one piece and then return to its starting square. Lion movement can be unrestricted (as in the lion of Chu Shogi) or restricted to certain directions (as in the soaring eagle or the horned falcon of Chu Shogi) planar piece - a kind of lame hook mover, a piece that can optionally turn 90 degrees and move on as long as the rectangle spanned by the two legs of its move is free from any other piece, friend or foo. It can capture only on its destination square. source: Gavin Smith: Prince http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/prince.html