Summary[]
Chess pieces are the pieces in Chess, a game for smart people. Being the members of their King's army, they also have an assortment of powers to help them.
Standard Chess Piece Physiology[]
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics - All pieces have superhuman strength, stamina, and speed
- Martial Arts and Weapon Mastery - All pieces are soldiers, and should be trained in physical combat.
- Acrobatics - All pieces have impressive mobility.
- Large Size (Type 1) - All pieces are a similar size to rooks, which represent a siege tower
- Transformation - Pawns can promote to any piece.
- Limited Precognition and Causality Manipulation - Pieces can see if a move will cause the King to be captured, and are unable to undergo that move.
- BFR/Existance Erasure (when capturing pieces, they are removed from the board)
Fairy Chess Piece Physiology[]
The abilities of Chess Pieces in various variants of Chess.
- All previous abilities
- Acausality (Type 1) - In Fischer Random Chess, the starting position of the pieces are randomized.
- Limited BFR - Pieces can be put in the pocket in Pocket Mutation Chess.
- Teleportation - Pieces in the pocket can be placed in any free square when taken out.
- Fusionism - Pieces can fuse, combining their moves, in Super X Chess.
- Time Manipulation - Able to move, ignoring turns, in Kung Fu Chess and move through timelines in 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel
- Accelerated Development and Statistics Amplification - Able to take progressively more turns in Progressive Chess.
- Body Puppetry - Can move an opponent's pawn in Avalanche Chess
- Power Absorption - Takes abilities from pieces it eats in Absorption Chess and PlunderChess
- Explosion Manipulation, Self-Destruction and Radiation Manipulation - Causes a 3x3 explosion when captured in Atomic Chess
- Immortality (Type 4) - When captured, pieces are reborn in their starting squares in Circe Chess
- Power Bestowal - Pieces defended by knights are given the knight's abilities in Knight Relay Chess.
- Dimensional Travel - In 3-D Chess, 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, Parallel Worlds Chess, Alice Chess
- Resistance to: Explosion Manipulation, Radiation Manipulation - Pawns are able to tank atomic explosions.