What single word can be a piece in chess and in draughts and a playing card?
"(1,0)-rider which cannot jump). The grasshopper moves along the same lines as a queen, hopping over another piece and landing on the square immediately beyond it. Compound pieces combine the powers of two or more pieces. The archbishop, chancellor, and amazon are three popular compound pieces, combining the powers of minor orthodox chess pieces. When one of the combined pieces is a knight, the compound may be called a ""knighted"" piece. The archbishop, chancellor, and amazon are the knighted bishop, knighted rook, and knighted queen respectively. When one of the combined pieces is a king, the compound may be called"
"languages, castling is known by a derivative from the same root as the English word ""rook"" (e.g. ""rochieren, rochada, enroque""), while the local adjectives meaning ""long"" and ""short"" (or ""big"" and ""small"") are used in those countries to refer to queenside and kingside castling, respectively. Castling Castling is a move in the game of chess involving a player's king and either of the player's original rooks. It is the only move in chess in which a player moves two pieces in the same move, and it is the only move aside from the knight's move where a piece can be"
"Chess piece A chess piece, or chessman, is any of the six different movable objects used on a chessboard to play the game of chess. Each player begins with a total of sixteen pieces. The pieces that belong to each player are distinguished by color. The lighter colored pieces are referred to as ""white,"" and the player that owns them, ""White"". The darker colored pieces are referred to as ""black"", and the player that owns them, ""Black"". The word ""piece"" has three meanings, depending on the context. The context should make the intended meaning clear . In the first context,"
"Game piece (hieroglyph) The ancient Egyptian Game piece (hieroglyph), also a Token, or the general term for any ""gaming-gambling"" piece, Draughtsman is an ancient hieroglyph. Gaming pieces were certainly required in predynastic times, as the cultural creation of games and entertainment has a long history in most cultures. An ivory-piece lion is known from the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt; the set contains three lions, and three dog tokens of ivory. The ""Senet game"" is recorded as the oldest boardgame in history, for which tokens are used. The basic word for 'Game piece' or 'draughtsman' is """"ab"""". By implication, people"
"pieces wins the game. Murray includes it in the section called Clearance Games which includes the game Solitaire which it does resemble in many ways except that Solitaire is played by only one person. The game is also known to be spelled as one word, Leapfrog. Murray never stated that the moves are limited to orthogonal directions. The game might still work with diagonal moves. A rectangular board with 15 to 18 squares in length on each side is used. The pieces in the traditional variant are undifferentiated. In Murray's variant, the pieces have different colors with different point values."
"middle game, endings). A for example, is worth half a pawn. In specific circumstances, the values may be quite different: A knight can be more valuable than a queen in a particular decisive attack. Courier Chess, a predecessor of modern chess, used all six chess pieces plus a courier, man (or rath or sage), and jester. Although the symbols for pieces have international standards, the characters implied by pieces' names vary between languages. For example, in many languages, the piece known in English as the ""knight"" is named a term that translates to ""horse"". Chess piece A chess piece, or"
"Draughts Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque. The name derives from the verb to draw or to move. The most popular forms are English draughts, also called American checkers, played on an 8×8 checkerboard; Russian draughts, also played on an 8×8, and international draughts, played on a 10×10 board. There are many other variants played on 8×8 boards. Canadian checkers and Singaporean/Malaysian checkers (also locally known as ""dum"") are"
"player takes the remaining cards and changes the word (for example, BLOW can become SLOW, and SLOW can become SLOT, etc.). The first player to lose all their cards wins. The best starting English word is WARE, providing for at least 23 common English words to be played next. A sample of the worst starting words are ALSO, ECHO, EXAM, GURU, IDOL, KEYS, OBEY, and TAXI. There are no common English words that can be played from those. Scrabble Slam! is a card game sold in two different editions. One edition includes 55 cards and can be played by 2-4"
"draw pile. The player with the most points at the end of eight rounds wins.[1] Allowable words Edit Players should decide on an English dictionary to be used during the game. An allowable word must appear as an entry in that dictionary or as one of the listed inflected forms of an entry word. Words must also use at least two cards. The makers of Quiddler have established several restrictions on the words used in a game. No proper nouns may be used. Capitalized adjectives, such as Iraqi and Scottish, may be used. Prefixes and suffixes by themselves are not"
"game which makes the game more dynamic, and resembles Chess. In Italian, Damone means ""big king"", Dama means ""king"", and Pedine means ""checker man"". In the standard game, the player who captures all their opponent's pieces is the winner. Alternatively, stalemating the enemy's pieces by not allowing them to move is a win for a player. In some other variants, it is enough only for a player to capture all their opponent's Damones to win the game. A standard 8 x 8 draughts board is used. In the standard game, each player has 1 Damone, 2 Damas, and 5 Pedines."
"Leaves (card suit) Leaves are one of the four suits in German-suited decks of playing cards. They correspond to Spades in a French deck. The leaf symbol originates from the Sword symbol of the Latin card decks. As its name suggests, the leaf is represented by a stylized green leaf. The left half is lighter than the right half; it can sometimes be yellow. veins are visible and there is usually a petiole. There may also be smaller leaves. They are usually known in German as Laub (""foliage""), but also as Gras (""grass""), Blatt (""leaf"") or Grün (""green""). Cards are"
"finish with a draw. However, not all positions that could result from imperfect play have been analysed. English draughts English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English; see spelling differences), also called American checkers or straight checkers, is a form of the strategy board game draughts. It is played on an 8×8 chequered board with 12 pieces per side. The pieces move and capture diagonally forward, until they reach the opposite end of the board, when they are crowned and can thereafter move and capture both backward and forward. As in all forms of draughts, English draughts is played by"
"new word. Play then alternates back to player one. Play continues, with each player building at least one NEW word on their turn and having the option of capturing opponents' words by making ""play-ons."" When the stacks are gone, play ends and players count their points. Players receive one point per letter on their side of the table. The player with the most points wins that round. The game can be played in multiple rounds. Play on Words includes not only single letter cards, but word combo cards, ""flip"" cards (allowing players to choose a letter), and wild cards (for"
"The dealer lays out half of the 80 card deck in 8 stacks on the table top. Player one builds one word (2 letters or more) from the available letters and places it on his or her side of the table. Player two then flips over any cards needed to replenish the stacks to 8 available letters showing. Player two builds one word AND has the option of using any available letters to capture the opponent's word by ""playing on"" that word. A ""play-on"" consists of either adding to a word—or—adding to AND rearranging the letters to make a completely"
"a specific card game. In a single deck, there is exactly one card of any given rank in any given suit. A deck may include special cards that belong to no suit, often called jokers. Various languages have different terminology for suits such as colors, signs, or seeds. Modern Western playing cards are generally divided into two or three general suit-systems. The older Latin suits are subdivided into the Italian and Spanish suit-systems. The younger Germanic suits are subdivided into the German and Swiss suit-systems. The French suits are a derivative of the German suits but are generally considered a"
"able to lose all 13 tricks, its value is equivalent to attempting to win 12 tricks. The suit order and no trumps have the same status order as in Bridge. In Robert W Service's poem ""The Shooting of Dan McGrew"", Dan McGrew is playing Solo in the back of the bar. His bid is ""Spread Misère"". Presumably that is the same bid as Misère Ouverte. Solo whist Solo Whist, sometimes known as simply Solo, is a trick-taking card game whose direct ancestor is the 17th-century Spanish game Ombre, based on the English Whist. Its major distinctive feature is that one"
"that the latter has used a word that is not an allowable word. If the word is an allowable word, the challenging player must subtract from his score the number of points in the word. If it is not, the challenged player must subtract from his score the number of points in the word. The challenged player may not re-arrange his cards to form other words.Before play begins, all the cards are shuffled. A game of Quiddler consists of eight rounds beginning with a three-card hand and ending with a ten-card hand. While there is a single-player variation, the regular"
"English draughts English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English; see spelling differences), also called American checkers or straight checkers, is a form of the strategy board game draughts. It is played on an 8×8 chequered board with 12 pieces per side. The pieces move and capture diagonally forward, until they reach the opposite end of the board, when they are crowned and can thereafter move and capture both backward and forward. As in all forms of draughts, English draughts is played by two opponents, alternating turns on opposite sides of the board. The pieces are traditionally black, red, or"
"long as these conditions are met, a tile may be placed anywhere on the board, even if not all of the other tiles a new tile is connected to form new words. A major difference in how the game plays in contrast with Scrabble is that words do not need to be isolated. For example, in the play pictured above, with the bold letter う being played, in addition to つうか (either 通過 for ""passing"", or 通貨 for ""currency""), つう (通, connoisseur) and うか (羽化, eclosion) qualify as words. The horizontal words that qualify in this play are ふつう (普通,"
"In this position from an actual game, the only move to draw is 124.Rf8! White actually played 124.Rd8?? and lost after 124...Re3, with the winning threat of 125...Bh3+ 126.Kg1 Re1# . Bibliography Draw (chess) In chess, a draw is the result of a game ending in a tie. Usually, in tournaments a draw is worth a half point to each player, while a win is worth one point to the victor and none to the loser. For the most part, a draw occurs when it appears that neither side will win. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including"
"in strategy (a hook is a letter that can be played at the start or end of a word already on the board and as part of the same move in a new word in the cross direction). Certain high scoring words, such as words with doubled Z's (e.g. FUZZ, JAZZ, DAZZLE) that are impossible to make in ""Scrabble"" without using blanks, can be played. The word KNICKKNACK, with 4 K's, is impossible to play in ""Scrabble"" because there is only 1 K and only 2 blanks - but it is possible to play this word in ""Super Scrabble"". With"
"3 move openings of tournament play. The number of possible positions in English draughts is 500,995,484,682,338,672,639 and it has a game-tree complexity of approximately 10. By comparison, chess is estimated to have between 10 and 10 legal positions. When draughts is generalized so that it can be played on an ""n""×""n"" board, the problem of determining if the first player has a win in a given position is EXPTIME-complete. The July 2007 announcement by Chinook's team stating that the game had been solved must be understood in the sense that, with perfect play on both sides, the game will always"
"because he has lost all of his pieces, or because no legal move remains, has lost. The game is a draw when it is theoretically impossible (i.e. with perfect play) to capture any of the opponent's pieces. A misere game, as with other competitions, is known, where the object is to lose all one's pieces. Although Czech draughts is itself a regional variant of the draughts game, the version played in the Slovak Republic is slightly different in that each player begins with only two ranks of men, and that the huffing rule is enforced: if a piece that must"
"game set includes four plastic display racks and four decks of 96 cards. Each card has either one letter or a blank on it. Each deck has 5 each of A, S, blank; 3 each of B, H, P, W, Y; 2 each of J, Q, V, X, Z; and 4 each of all the other letters. Each display rack can hold up to twelve cards, with a point value assigned to each card position: 5-10-15-15-10-5-5-10-15-15-10-5. The cards are used to spell out each player's secret word face-down on one of the racks. For words less than 12 letters, blank"
"single drawing), Connections (where the previous word must be somehow incorporated into the current drawing), and 5 Strokes (where the artist has just five pen strokes to express his/her subject). In addition to the game's predefined rooms, players may create custom rooms where they tailor the game settings and choose from all of the available word lists. Players can also enter social, non-competitive rooms to chat and draw without playing the game. In most circumstances, the rules forbid players from writing letters or words in the puzzle, using various forms of code to spell out the words, etc. Established iSketch"
"Fork (chess) In chess, a fork is a tactic whereby a single piece makes two or more direct attacks simultaneously. Most commonly two pieces are threatened, which is also sometimes called a """". The attacker usually aims to gain by one of the opponent's pieces. The defender often finds it difficult to counter two or more threats in a single move. The attacking piece is called the ""forking"" piece; the pieces attacked are said to be ""forked"". A piece that is defended can still be said to be forked if the forking piece has a lower value. Besides attacking pieces,"
"and cut and folded into other shapes. The game does tend to fall into structural conventions, of which the following is a good example: A card consists (usually) of a title, a picture and a description of its effect. The title should uniquely identify the card. The picture can be as simple as a stick figure, or as complex as the player likes. The description, or rule, is the part that affects the game. It can award or deny points, cause a player to miss a turn, change the direction of play, or do anything the player can think of."
"a player before his turn can pick up the blank and replace it by the letter that it represents. For example, if the word STRETTa is on the board (with a blank A), the player may pick up the blank and replace it with an actual A. However, he cannot replace it with an E, I, or O to produce STRETTE, STRETTI, or STRETTO. Solitaire Scrabble follows the same rules and word acceptability as normal Scrabble, but there is only one player. Solitaire Scrabble can be played against a clock, trying to get the most points in a certain length"
"such as née, though the deck contains no such letters. Players must also decide for themselves if they will allow shortened word forms such as ad (for advertisement) and math. A player may challenge any other player if he feels that the latter has used a word that is not an allowable word. If the word is an allowable word, the challenging player must subtract from his score the number of points in the word. If it is not, the challenged player must subtract from his score the number of points in the word. The challenged player may not re-arrange"
"one of the pieces in hand on either the king's or the rook's square, but he may not place both pieces in hand in the same turn. Pawns may promote to a hawk or an elephant in this game (in addition to the normal chess pieces). When notating games in algebraic notation, the letter E is used for the Elephant and H for the Hawk. If the player places one of the two pieces on the board, it is written after a slash. For example, 1. Nc3/E means that the player moved his knight from b1 to c3 and placed"
"to different cards. There is no limit on the Lesson cards in a player's deck: a player may have as many different types as they prefer. Some cards have keywords in addition to their card type. These keywords allow other cards to refer to a specific type of card. The ""Wizard"" or ""Witch"" designation on Character cards is an example of a keyword, as is the ""Healing"" designation on some other cards. Other common keywords include designations representing each of the four Hogwarts houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Some cards (including all Characters) have the keyword ""Unique"", which indicates"
"would allow the sequence lawyer-pickle-jar, because a lawyer could be in a pickle (in a manner of speaking) and a pickle can fit in a jar, but the alternate rules would not allow this because a lawyer cannot fit in a jar. In a Pickle (card game) In a Pickle is a card and word game for two to six players. It was published by Gamewright in 2004. ""In a Pickle"" contains 320 cards, each displaying a noun. To start the game, each player is dealt five cards, and four cards are placed face up in the shape of a"
"playing pieces may be termed checkers, draughts, stones, men, counters, pawns, discs, pips, chips, or nips. The objective is for players to remove (""bear off"") all their checkers from the board before their opponent can do the same. In the most often-played variants the checkers are scattered at first; as the game progresses they may be blocked or hit by the opponent. As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points. Each side of the board has a"