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Alibaba. Jumps two orthogonally or diagonally.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Nov 28, 2004 09:35 AM UTC:

The Alibaba appears as a promotee in my Courier variants, where Pawns are
promoted to compounds of the (simple) array pieces
(http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/n_europe.html), and under the name
Sail in Ken Franklin's Leap Chess
(http://www.chessvariants.org/44.dir/leap-chess.html). Another place where
it could occur is in a Fusion Timur's Chess along with the Bishop, Gnu,
Marshal, Prince, Waffle, and many less familiar pieces. Picket+Elephant
could be marked by the ability to leap two intermediate pieces, one for
each component, and given a name along the same lines as Alibaba:
Alitalia!