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Gnu. (Updated!) Compound of Knight (1-2 leaper) and Camel (1-3) leaper.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, May 4, 2003 10:25 AM UTC:
Further to my previous remarks, this piece is called a Gnu in Mark Hedden's Ganymede Chess and Io Chess. Unlike its components it can lose the move - it can return to a square in 3 moves or move to an adjacent one in 2. It is a stronger move-loser than the Bison, which takes 5 moves to return. Is it true that the Knight-Zebra combination (which cannot lose the move because it always changes square colour) is called the Gazelle, and are there names for any other combined leapers?