Editing Chess piece (section)

==Variants==
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[[File:Illustration of Chess Piece Man by Gustav Selenus (1616).jpg|thumb|right|A 1616 illustration of the Mann, a chess piece unique to the Courier Chess variant; the Mann moves like a King, but threatening it does not give check, and it can be captured without loss of the game.]]
[[Chess variant]]s sometimes include new, non-standard, or even old pieces.  For example, [[Courier Chess]], a predecessor of modern chess dating from the 12th century, was played on an 8×12 board and used all six modern chess piece types, plus three additional types of pieces: Courier, [[Mann (chess)|Mann]] (or ''rath'' or ''sage''), and Jester.  Variants of "old" chess might use the old rules for bishops/elephants with the [[alfil]] piece, or old rules for Queens with the [[ferz]].  Many modern variants with unorthodox pieces exist, such as [[Berolina chess]] which uses custom pawns that advance diagonally and capture vertically.