NIGHTRIDER

A fairy chess piece, a rider, that can make several knight-leaps in the same direction and so attack 12 squares (4×3). On a diagram, it is represented by an inverted knight. The fairy piece has been invented in 1925 by the British founder of the fairy chess T. R. Dawson.

T.R. Dawson- British Chess Magazine 1925. Mate in 5, (Nightrider on c6).

The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task. Nigel Short
2016
” Chess is most certainly not my life.” Tony Miles
I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques. Nigel Short
2016
Carlsen simply plays chess well. It seems to me that in such cases people are inclined to look for some supernatural explanation, although the simplest explanation is also the most appropriate: the guy simply plays chess well. Alexander Grischuk
2014
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree

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