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New chess pieces!

Any idea of some cool new chess piece which could be insert in an army on the chessboard?
The Lance - moves like a rook, but ONLY forwards, never sideways; once it reaches the back rank, it may return to any unoccupied tile on the first rank, in the very same turn (even when it had captured an enemy piece right before that)
#2, I think you will like shogi. :) It has the same piece, word for word, but with a promotion mechanic instead of teleportation.
My idea is *cough, cough* slightly based on its Shogi counterpart. :)

I experimented with some Chess variants of my own in the past, which had pieces implemented from all over the place ...
I remember there was some chess variant in ZoG that had an "emperor" instead of a king; the emperor could teleport anywhere on that board, as long as the target square was guarded by a piece of the same color, and not attacked by an opposing piece, even capturing.
That fairy chess list on wiki is nifty. Want to try a game where the knights and bishops are replaced by princesses and knightriders now.

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