Grasshopper chess

Grasshopper chess is a chess variant in which pawns may promote to a fairy piece called the grasshopper, usually drawn as an inverted queen. The grasshopper moves along the same lines as a queen but can only move or capture by jumping over another piece and landing on the square immediately beyond it. In some versions grasshoppers also stand on the board at the start, for example placed along the second and seventh ranks with the pawns moved forward, or in place of the queens, in which case pawns may not take two steps on their first move but still promote to queens.