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The Piece: Pawn: Snake Tag

Description

The Snake moves and captures as a forward Ferz and moves only as a forward Knight. It promotes to Hydra, a combined (0,1)(1,2)(0,3)-leaper (Wazir, Knight, Threeleaper or Dromedar). It was first introduced by Stuart Spence 2023 in Wequedong and afterward used in many more variants. Currently, those variants are here only in the form of interactive diagrams by HaruN Y.

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