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The Piececlopedia is intended as a scholarly reference concerning the history and naming conventions of pieces used in Chess variants. But it is not a set of standards concerning what you must call pieces in newly invented games.

Piececlopedia: Ubi-Ubi

Historical notes

The ubi-ubi is a less well-known fairy chess problem piece. The only game I know of that uses this piece is Ubi-Ubi Chess, game considered unsuccessful by its inventors. Ubi-ubi means 'everywhere' in Latin.

Movement

The ubi-ubi makes an arbitrary finite number of knight moves in a single turn as desired. It must stop when it captures an opponent's piece.

The ubi-ubi is a powerful piece; on an empty board it can, of course, reach every square on the board.

This is an item in the Piececlopedia: an overview of different (fairy) chess pieces.

Written by Ben Good.

WWW page created: January 15, 1999.