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John Ayer's 'orthogonal leapers' are presumably the piece now called a Dabbaba as that was the extra piece in Shatranj Kamil, to 'complete' a family with the diagonal Elephant and oblique Knight. However the Elephant and Knight of present-day Xiang Qi are steppers - they need to pass through a square adjacent to both start and destination. Would the Dabbaba of the intermediate game have been a stepper rather than a leaper? is ther any evidence of Xiang Qi ever having leaping pieces?