Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Apr 12, 2020 02:07 PM UTC:
As to the Alfil: the move was changed without changing the name.
You have that backwards. As Chess evolved the elephant was enhanced from leaping diagonally to sliding diagonally. It was at a later point that the English name (and maybe other languages) was changed to bishop while other languages, such as Spanish and Russian retained the existing name.
You have that backwards. As Chess evolved the elephant was enhanced from leaping diagonally to sliding diagonally. It was at a later point that the English name (and maybe other languages) was changed to bishop while other languages, such as Spanish and Russian retained the existing name.