Strongest Fairy chess piece in History EVER

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LordLythronax

Hello everyone,I just wanted to know what is your opinion on the strongest fairy chess piece in history that EVER EXISTED ON THE BOARD. In my opinion it the Immobilizer/Basilisk, which appears in Dragon chess . The immobilzer moves as a Standard chess Queen. At the end of its move, any enemy piece that is on a square adjacent to the immobilizer is frozen in place, and can not move away until the immobilizer moves away or is captured. The coordinator can never move to an occupied square, and can not capture pieces. A piece that is immobilized can, however, 'commit suicide,' which means it is removed from the board, at the cost of one turn. If two immobilizers move next to each other, they are both frozen until the end of the game or until one is captured.

TheSmartestBird69
LordLythronax wrote:

Hello everyone,I just wanted to know what is your opinion on the strongest fairy chess piece in history that EVER EXISTED ON THE BOARD. In my opinion it the Immobilizer/Basilisk, which appears in Dragon chess . The immobilzer moves as a Standard chess Queen. At the end of its move, any enemy piece that is on a square adjacent to the immobilizer is frozen in place, and can not move away until the immobilizer moves away or is captured. The coordinator can never move to an occupied square, and can not capture pieces. A piece that is immobilized can, however, 'commit suicide,' which means it is removed from the board, at the cost of one turn. If two immobilizers move next to each other, they are both frozen until the end of the game or until one is captured.

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HGMuller

In the historic Japanese game 'Tenjiku Shogi' there participates a piece called 'Fire Demon'. It moved as a Bishop, or along a rank like a Rook (although modern players have changed this to a move along a file). And it could make up to 3 King steps in independently chosen directions (but only when the path to the final destination is empty). What makes it so strong is that it not only captures the piece it lands on, but also all enemy pieces adjacent to its destination. And this also works passively: when a piece lands next to an enemy Fire Demon it just disappears.

This is obviously a lot more dangerous than an immobilizer: the latter only paralyzes enemies while it is there, the Fire Demon removes them forever. In fact the Fire Demon beats almost any combination of ordinary material. It would probably have no difficulty massacring about 5 Amazons.

Another good candidate is the 'Emperor' from Maka Dai Dai Shogi (where it only appears as a promoted King) or Tai Shogi (where it is present from the start), two other historic Japanese chess variants. The Emperor can teleport to any square on the board, also for capturing. The only exception is capturing the opponent's royal piece: this is only allowed if that royal piece is unprotected. (Normally you would of course also not use it to capture protected non-royal pieces, as it is not only way too valuable for that, but in fact your own royal piece.)