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The Piececlopedia is intended as a scholarly reference concerning the history and naming conventions of pieces used in Chess variants. But it is not a set of standards concerning what you must call pieces in newly invented games.

Piececlopedia: Non-stop Equihopper

Historical notes

The non-stop equihopper is a variant of the Equihopper. Both the standard equihopper and its non-stop variant are fairy chess pieces that are regularly used in fairy chess problems. For instance, in 1999, a tournament to design fairy chess problems that use an equihopper or non-stop equihopper was held in Probleemblad, the magazine of the Dutch organization of chess problem composers.

The equihopper was invented in the first half of the 20th century, by G. Leathem.

Movement

The non-stop equihopper moves along lines in any direction, but must jump, and the distance before the hurdle (the piece that is jumped across) must be equal to the distance after the hurdle.

Movement diagram








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The non-stop equihopper can move to the squares marked with a black circle, and take the pawn on a3. Note that the non-stop equihopper can also move in directions that are not orthogonal or diagonal: e.g., in the diagram, it can jump across the king on b3 to c5.

This is an item in the Piececlopedia: an overview of different (fairy) chess pieces. 
Written by Hans Bodlaender. 
WWW page created: June 24, 2000.