Answers.Body: <p>There is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Wikipadia page &quot;Fairy Chess Piece&quot;</a> with a table of popular and well known fairies. You can re-order the table by Betza notation or Parlett notation to get an ordering by move pattern. I think this is the best resource available, given your demands.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: https://hilmar-alquiros.de/A.htm (replace A by wanted letter) is also very helpful, especially considering translation issues.
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Body: <p>While trying to accurately describe the intended movement of the &quot;doubled knight&quot; in <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/33094/how-to-solve-this-puzzle-of-martin-gardner">this chess puzzle</a>, I realized that what I really wanted right at that instant was a &quot;dictionary&quot; that would let me look up the established name for a fairy chess piece based on its movement (or lack thereof).</p>
  <p>Ideally, I'd like to be able to load up a graphical board like in <a href="https://lichess.org/editor/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">lichess's editor</a>, drag-and-drop pieces (including a placeholder for &quot;my mystery fairy piece&quot;) to create a position, and then mark subsets of the squares as &quot;attacked&quot; or &quot;not attacked,&quot; something like this:</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/gmcKs.jpg" alt="" /></p>
  <p>and then the tool would tell me, &quot;Ah, the piece you're referring to is commonly known as a 'Marseillais knight',&quot; or whatever. (Note that I still don't know what my piece's name is.)</p>
  <p>Does such a tool already exist anywhere? I've found glossaries such as <a href="http://www.theproblemist.org/dloads/Glossary.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this excellent one by Stephen Emmerson for the British Chess Problem Society</a>, but nothing that would actually let me look up a piece by &quot;allowed moves,&quot; and certainly I've found nothing interactive.</p>
  <p>(If, as I predict, no such tool exists yet, I'd be interested to hear about difficulties one might encounter in implementing such a tool, and good authoritative sources of fairy-piece names other than Emmerson's.)</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Btw, this other Chess.SE question — [Resources on chess variants](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1519/resources-on-chess-variants) — is certainly relevant to my interests, but on a quick skim, I don't see an answer to my specific question there.
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Title: An online dictionary of fairy chess pieces indexed by move
ThreadText: # An online dictionary of fairy chess pieces indexed by move
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-11-26)
  
  While trying to accurately describe the intended movement of the "doubled knight" in [this chess puzzle](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/33094/how-to-solve-this-puzzle-of-martin-gardner), I realized that what I really wanted right at that instant was a "dictionary" that would let me look up the established name for a fairy chess piece based on its movement (or lack thereof).
  
  Ideally, I'd like to be able to load up a graphical board like in [lichess's editor](https://lichess.org/editor/), drag-and-drop pieces (including a placeholder for "my mystery fairy piece") to create a position, and then mark subsets of the squares as "attacked" or "not attacked," something like this:
  
  ![](https://i.sstatic.net/gmcKs.jpg)
  
  and then the tool would tell me, "Ah, the piece you're referring to is commonly known as a 'Marseillais knight'," or whatever. (Note that I still don't know what my piece's name is.)
  
  Does such a tool already exist anywhere? I've found glossaries such as [this excellent one by Stephen Emmerson for the British Chess Problem Society](http://www.theproblemist.org/dloads/Glossary.pdf), but nothing that would actually let me look up a piece by "allowed moves," and certainly I've found nothing interactive.
  
  (If, as I predict, no such tool exists yet, I'd be interested to hear about difficulties one might encounter in implementing such a tool, and good authoritative sources of fairy-piece names other than Emmerson's.)
  
  **Tags:** software, websites, unorthodox-pieces
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Btw, this other Chess.SE question — [Resources on chess variants](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1519/resources-on-chess-variants) — is certainly relevant to my interests, but on a quick skim, I don't see an answer to my specific question there.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2021-04-15. Score: 1
  
  There is [the Wikipadia page "Fairy Chess Piece"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece) with a table of popular and well known fairies. You can re-order the table by Betza notation or Parlett notation to get an ordering by move pattern. I think this is the best resource available, given your demands.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: https://hilmar-alquiros.de/A.htm (replace A by wanted letter) is also very helpful, especially considering translation issues.  
  
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