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Vao. moves like bishop but must jump when taking.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Oct 22, 2021 06:02 PM UTC in reply to Bn Em from 02:08 PM:

I have moved this discussion to the Vao page.

I assume JL means this one?

Okay, I missed that, because I was looking for an illustration of the piece itself and didn't realize he meant the illustration of the board. The piece in the Bishops's position has four legs and the general shape of a crocodile. So, crocodile may be a fair translation. But my other point still stands. Since the piece that could be translated as crocodile was a Bishop and not a Vao, it doesn't set any precedent or provide a good enough reason for using that name for the Vao.