Wazir

Quick meaning: Wazir is a noun meaning (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves one square orthogonally.

Meaning

(chess) A fairy chess piece that moves one square orthogonally.

Example Sentences

The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town."

Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.

Word Forms

• wazirs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nawab, minister, secretary, wazirship, viziership, vizirship.

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