The Knightrider

A Nightrider, alternately spelled Knightrider or Unicorn, is a fairy chess piece invented by the father of fairy chess, the brilliant chess composer T.R. Dawson in 1925. This piece makes any number of knight moves in one direction, without deviating from the trajectory.

The game uses a 9x9 board and each player has 36 pieces at his / her disposal:
1 Sorcerer (King)
4 Ghosts
4 Shields
6 Nightriders/Unicorns
6 Twilight Reapers (Marshal or Chancellor - knight + rook)
6 Sowers of Chaos (Archbishop - knight + bishop)
9 Pawns

Please have fun while moving amidst the white and black squares of this tested puzzle to uncover this fairy piece. :)

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