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Even today, the word for the bishop piece is alfil in Spanish, alfiere in Italian, fil in Turkish, fīl in Persian and Arabic, and слон ("elephant") in Russian. As chess spread from Iran northward to Russia, and westward into eastern Europe, south to Italy, and finally westward, it mostly retained the original name and look of the piece as ...
Antique Indian elephant chess piece representing the king. The pil, alfil, alpil, or elephant is a fairy chess piece that can jump two squares diagonally. It first appeared in shatranj. It is used in many historical and regional chess variants. It was used in standard chess before being replaced by the bishop in the 15th and 16th centuries.
A fairy chess piece is a game piece that is not in regular chess but appears in an alternate version of chess with different rules. Such an alternate version is known as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess.
The movement patterns for Queens and Bishops also changed, with the earliest rules restricting elephants to just two squares along a diagonal, but allowing them to "jump" (seen in the fairy chess piece the alfil); and the earliest versions of queens could only move a single square diagonally (the fairy chess piece Ferz). The modern bishop's ...
Queen. The legend regarding the set states that these chessmen were given as a gift to Charlemagne by Caliph Harun al-Rashid, [3] who was an avid chess player. The fact that the set displays elephants instead of bishops and chariots instead of rooks denotes a form of the Perso-Arabic game known as Shatranj, itself coming from the original Indian Chaturanga (which compound word means the 'Four ...
Mantri (minister); also known as Senapati (general): moves one step diagonally in any direction, like the fers in shatranj. Ratha (chariot) (also known as Śakaṭa) moves the same as a rook in chess: horizontally or vertically, through any number of unoccupied squares. Gaja (elephant) (also known as Hasti). Three different moves are described ...
The Russian Chess Federation’s executive director, Alexander Tkachyov, told state news agency Tass on Wednesday that officials were “deeply disappointed” by the incident. “We are waiting ...
The elephant of Yūsuf al-Bāhilī, known as the Chessman of Charlemagne [1] or Eléphant de Charlemagne, [2] is an ivory sculpture, possibly part of a chess set and probably carved in Sindh in the 9th century AD. It has been in Paris since at least the 16th century.