ChessPiece

The game of WesternChess has six types of ChessPieces:

• the ChessPawn
• the ChessKnight
• the ChessKing
• the ChessBishop
• the ChessRook?
• the ChessQueen

As such, these are the only ChessPieces with which many people are familiar. However, ChessersPlayers may also recognize

• the NormalChecker and
• the KingChecker?

as legitimate ChessPieces.

There are many, many other kinds of ChessPieces. Wondrous many, in fact. See http://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/index.html for a slew of examples.