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Bent Riders. A discussion of pieces, like the Gryphon, that take a step then move as riders.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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.