For this Assignment I designed a chess piece along with a signature move. My professor like it so I thought it would be nice to share what it looked like on my blog.
I called it, The Meditation Move: My Chess piece would be in the shop of a Buddha, see below

From the open position, the Buddha moves two spaces to the center of the board. Once there he remains as a blocker. Making a continuous square, left, right, up, down while never leaving the center. Buddha can capture any piece next to him. Its power is that of Protector. It does not leave the center, it remains in Meditation mode until it is capture either by king, queen, or rook.