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Alfil. Jumps two diagonally. Arabic for the elephant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Feb 6 07:09 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 06:40 PM:

I have also concluded the same thing in my research for my most recent book. The modern Elephant's move was first proposed by Albers in his Courier-Spiel in 1821. As far as I am concerned I had used that Elephant, under that name, in Shako and Tamerlane II (first version) since 1990. In my mind, I wanted to include the moves of the ancestors of the Queen and Bishop into that piece. Then I gave the Elephant the move of the Ferz and the Alfil.