Grasshopper chess

Grasshopper chess is a chess variant, in which the pawns are allowed to promote to a fairy piece, the grasshopper. The grasshopper (shown as an inverted queen) must hop over other pieces in order to move or capture.

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Grasshopper chess. Second and seventh ranks are occupied with grasshoppers.

In some variations grasshoppers may also be present on the board in the opening position, in addition to the usual pieces. For example, pawns can be moved forward and grasshoppers put along the second and seventh ranks[1] as shown on the diagram at right. Another possibility is to replace queens with grasshoppers in initial position, while pawns can still be promoted to queens.[2]

References

J. Boyer (1951). Les Jeux D'Echecs Non Orthodoxes.
Pritchard, D. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1.

External links

Grasshopper chess by Hans Bodlaender, The Chess Variant Pages

Chess variants (list)

Orthodox rules

Different starting position	Chess960 Displacement chess Transcendental chess
Different number of pieces	Dunsany's chess Handicap
Unorthodox board	Balbo's game Circular chess Cross chess Cylinder chess Double chess Grid chess Hexagonal chess Infinite chess Los Alamos chess Masonic chess Millennium 3D chess Minichess Rhombic chess Spherical chess Three-dimensional chess Triangular chess Trappist-1

Unorthodox
rules with
traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Andernach chess Atomic chess Beirut chess Checkless chess Circe chess Crazyhouse Cubic chess Dynamo chess Extinction chess Hostage chess Knight relay chess Legan chess Losing chess Madrasi chess Monochromatic chess Patrol chess PlunderChess Portal chess Progressive chess Three-check chess Way of the Knight
Multimove variants	Avalanche chess Kung-Fu Chess Marseillais chess Monster chess Progressive chess
Elements of chance	Dark chess Dice chess Knightmare Chess Kriegspiel Penultima
Unorthodox rules on an unorthodox board	Alice chess Apocalypse Chad Chessence Congo Diplomat chess Dragonfly Jeson Mor Parallel worlds chess Rollerball

Unorthodox
rules using
non-traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Baroque Berolina Chakra Chess with different armies Duell Falcon–hunter chess Grasshopper chess Pocket mutation chess
Empress and/or Princess (other pieces: Hawk, Leopard, Unicorn, Fortress, Spider etc)	Almost chess Capablanca chess Capablanca random chess Embassy chess Grand chess Janus Chess Maharajah and the Sepoys Modern chess Seirawan chess
Unorthodox boards	Chesquerque Chess on a really big board Dragonchess Gess Omega Chess Stratomic Dekle's triangular chess 2000 A.D. Wildebeest chess Wolf chess
Multiplayer	Bosworth Bughouse chess Business chess Djambi Enochian chess Forchess Fortress chess Four-player chess Quatrochess Three-man chess Three-player chess Tri-chess

Inspired games

Chess-related
games

Historical	Chaturaji Courier chess Grant Acedrex Shatranj Short assize Tamerlane chess
Regional	Banqi Game of the Three Kingdoms Hiashatar Janggi Jungle Ouk-Khmer Makruk Manchu chess Senterej Shatar Shogi Sittuyin Xiangqi

Software

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