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Chancellor. Moves like rook or as knight.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
John Ayer wrote on Wed, Aug 4, 2010 01:58 AM UTC:
Shatranj al-Kabir is the name of several Eastern variants of chess; you can read about them in Murray's History of Chess, Chapter XVI. I don't see any form with a rook+knight combination earlier than about 1800.