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2. Alfil - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. List of fairy chess pieces - Wikipedia

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   Also called Burmese Elephant Hsin in sittuyin (Burmese chess), Elephant in some versions of Indian chess, Khon in makruk (Thai chess), and Violent Stag in taikyoku shogi and wa shogi. Sissa: n+.nX, nX.n+: Coherent Chess, Sissa Chess: Moves as a certain number of squares as a Rook followed by exactly the same number of squares as a Bishop. Or ...

4. Shatranj - Wikipedia

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   The initial setup in shatranj was essentially the same as in modern chess; however, the position of the white shah (king), on the right or left side was not fixed. Either the arrangement as in modern chess or as shown in the diagram were possible. In either case, the white and black shāh would be on the same file.

5. Chaturanga - Wikipedia

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   The elephant in Chinese xiangqi has the same move, but is not able to jump over an intervening piece or pawn. The elephant in Korean janggi has the same move, but out ward from an initial orthogonal step, also without the ability to jump over an intervening piece or pawn. One step forward or one step in any diagonal direction.

6. Bishop (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The bishop's predecessor in medieval chess, shatranj (originally chaturanga), was the alfil, meaning "elephant", which could leap two squares along any diagonal, and could jump over an intervening piece. As a consequence, each fil was restricted to eight squares, and no fil could attack another.

7. Xiangqi - Wikipedia

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   Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess.

8. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The table contains names for all the pieces as well as the words for chess, check, and checkmate in several languages. [16] Several languages use the Arabic loanword alfil for the piece called bishop in English; in this context it is a chess-specific term which no longer has its original meaning of "elephant".

9. Charlemagne chessmen - Wikipedia

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   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 ...