The pil, alfil, alpil, or elephant is a fairy chess piece that can jump two squares diagonally. It first appeared in shatranj. It is used in many historical...

Operation Bishop (Spanish: Operativo Alfil) was the Argentine addition to the coalition forces from around 42 nations led by the United States in the...

Rukh ("chariot"; from Persian رخ rokh) moves like the rook in chess. Pīl, alfil, aufin, and similar ("elephant"; from Persian پيل pīl; al- is the Arabic...

bishop is still called alfil (from al fil, with the article) in Spanish. Due to the piece's change in movement, the ferz and the alfil are now considered...

of alfil survive in the languages of the two countries where chess was first introduced within Western Europe—Italian (alfiere) and Spanish (alfil). It...

diagonal, but allowing them to "jump" (seen in the fairy chess piece the alfil); and the earliest versions of queens could only move a single square diagonally...

checkmate in several languages. Several languages use the Arabic loanword alfil for the piece called bishop in English; in this context it is a chess-specific...

Orthodox pieces Bishop King Knight Pawn Queen Rook Fairy pieces (List) Alfil Amazon Berolina pawn Camel Dabbaba Empress Ferz Giraffe Grasshopper Mann...

sometimes referred to as Operation Desert Calm[citation needed] Operativo Alfil was the Argentine name for Argentine military activities[citation needed]...

squares in any diagonal direction, jumping over the first square, as the alfil in Iranian shatranj, Ethiopian senterej, Mongolian Tamerlane chess and medieval...