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"Tam Lin" is a traditional Scottish Border ballad cataloged as Child Ballad 39. The narrative centers on a mortal man captured by the Queen of Fairies and his rescue by a woman named Janet at Carterhaugh. According to the legend, Janet must hold onto Tam Lin as he transforms into various animals on...

The purple-crowned fairy is a small hummingbird species found in tropical regions of Mexico and northern Peru. It’s distinguished by the iridescent violet plumage on the male's head—a rare trait among hummingbirds. This bird is of interest to ornithologists studying neotropical hummingbird diversity...

Gliński's Hexagonal Chess is a chess variant invented by Polish journalist Władysław Gliński and first publicly presented around 1949. It is played on a large hexagonal board of 91 hex cells using three colors, with each player commanding an enlarged set of pieces including an extra bishop. The geom...

Circe chess is a fairy chess variant in which a captured piece is normally reborn on the square where that type of piece began the game, provided the destination square is vacant. The rebirth rule changes the meaning of captures, checks, and exchanges, because removing a piece can also return it to...

The black-eared fairy (Heliothryx margarita) is a hummingbird species endemic to the Amazon rainforest of South America. It’s notable for possessing distinctive dark markings around its ears, a feature that distinguishes it from other hummingbirds. Primarily found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela,...

Pelham Puppets' Fairy Godmother is a wooden string-controlled marionette representing the magical helper from the Cinderella story. It was produced in England as part of the company's range of characters drawn from traditional fairy tales and children's entertainment. The figure was made for puppet...

Take and Make Chess is a chess variant that changes the usual consequence of a capture. When a piece captures an opposing piece, the capturing piece must immediately make a non-capturing move using the movement abilities of the piece it has just taken. The rule creates a second tactical decision aft...

Extinction Chess is a chess variant attributed to R. Wayne Schmittberger that replaces checkmate with a piece-extinction objective. A player wins by capturing every opposing piece of at least one chosen type, such as all of the opponent's pawns, bishops, rooks, or queens, rather than by attacking th...

Abby Cadabby is a Muppet puppet character introduced on the educational television program "Sesame Street" in 2006. Designed as a three-year-old fairy-in-training, she is distinguished by her pink attire, butterfly wings, and a magic wand that frequently malfunctions, producing unintended results. T...

Knightmare Chess is a chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games that adds a hand of cards to the standard board, pieces, and rules. Players use the cards to alter legal moves, introduce unusual attacks, or change the position during play, creating tactical situations that ordinary chess does no...

Baroque Chess, also known as Ultima, is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott in 1962 and played on a standard 8×8 chessboard. Unlike orthodox chess, all pieces capture through special methods rather than by displacement: the Pincer traps enemy pieces between itself and an ally,...

Anti-Circe is a fairy-chess condition that changes the result of a capture. Instead of the captured unit being reborn, the capturing unit is removed from the capture square and immediately returned to its own starting, or game-array, square. The condition is used in chess problems and variant play,...

Alice Chess is a chess variant invented by V. R. Parton in 1953 and named after Lewis Carroll's *Through the Looking-Glass*. The game is played using two separate chessboards, designated Board A and Board B. A piece completes its standard move on one board, but upon finishing, it is immediately tran...

Ralph Betza's Almost Chess is a variant where the traditional queens are replaced by different, specialized fairy pieces to alter game balance.

Pocket Knight Chess is a chess variant in which each player begins with an additional knight held in reserve outside the board. Instead of making an ordinary move, a player may place this pocket knight on an eligible empty square, after which it behaves like a normal knight. The reserve piece introd...

Dragonchess is a three-dimensional fantasy chess variant created by Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, and published in 1985. The game is played on three vertically stacked 12x8 boards that represent the sky, the earth, and the underworld. It features an expanded roster of unique piec...

Rhombic Chess is a chess variant invented by Tony Paletta in 1980. It is played on a rhombus-shaped board based on hexagonal geometry, so the relationships between lines, diagonals, and movement paths differ from those in orthodox chess. The variant is of interest to players who study alternate boar...

Extinction chess is a chess variant associated with chess writer R. Wayne Schmittberger. Instead of winning by checkmate, a player wins by capturing every remaining opposing piece of any one type, such as all pawns, rooks, bishops, knights, or queens. The king is not necessarily treated as uniquely...

Rococo is a chess variant derived from Baroque Chess, designed by Peter Aronson and David Howe around 2002, with pieces that capture by surrounding, leaping over, or displacing opponents.

Chancellor Chess is a chess variant introduced by Ben Foster in 1887. It is played on a 9×9 board with an additional file and rank, and each side is given a Chancellor piece that combines the movement capabilities of a rook and a knight. The variant belongs to a family of late-19th-century expanded...

Andernach chess is a fairy-chess condition in which a non-king piece changes color immediately after making a capture. The captured piece is removed normally, while the capturing piece remains on the destination square and is thereafter controlled by the opposite side. Non-capturing moves follow ord...

Infinite Chess is a family of theoretical chess variants played on a board that extends without bound, rather than on the standard eight-by-eight board. The pieces retain chess-like movement and capture concepts, but the unbounded geometry changes questions about checkmate, strategy, and whether a p...

Hostage Chess is a chess variant created by John Leslie in 1997. When a piece is captured, it does not simply leave the game: it becomes a hostage that may later be returned to the board when the appropriate opposing captured piece is offered in exchange. This ransom mechanism adds a second layer of...

Ultima, also called Baroque Chess, is a chess variant created by Robert Abbott in 1962. It is played on a conventional chessboard, but its pieces use specialized capture rules rather than the ordinary methods of chess. The game emphasizes immobilization, displacement, and positional interaction, so...

Wildebeest Chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987. It uses an 11 by 10 board rather than the standard 8 by 8 board and adds nonstandard pieces, including the camel and the wildebeest. The wildebeest is a distinctive leaping piece that can capture the opposing king under t...

Knightmate is a chess variant created by Bruce Zimov in 1972 and also known as Mate the Knight. It exchanges the royal role of the orthodox king with a knight: a royal knight begins on the king's usual square, while non-royal pieces that move like kings begin on the usual knight squares. Players win...

Modern Shatranj is a contemporary revival of ancient Persian chess, retaining historical weak pawns and the slow counselor piece while updating certain rules for modern play.

A chess variant where a capturing piece temporarily acquires the movement type of the captured piece, adding combinatorial tactical options to every exchange.

Pocket Mutation Chess is a chess variant created by Mike Nelson. Captured pieces are not simply removed from play: they are held in a pocket and can later be returned to the board. When reintroduced, those pieces mutate into upgraded or specialized fairy-chess pieces, so the variant combines capture...