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...
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Operation Bishop (Spanish: Operativo Alfil) was the Argentine addition to the coalition forces from around 42 nations led by the United States in the...
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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...
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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...
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of alfil survive in the languages of the two countries where chess was first introduced within Western Europe—Italian (alfiere) and Spanish (alfil). It...
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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...
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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...
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Orthodox pieces Bishop King Knight Pawn Queen Rook Fairy pieces (List) Alfil Amazon Berolina pawn Camel Dabbaba Empress Ferz Giraffe Grasshopper Mann...
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sometimes referred to as Operation Desert Calm[citation needed] Operativo Alfil was the Argentine name for Argentine military activities[citation needed]...
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squares in any diagonal direction, jumping over the first square, as the alfil in Iranian shatranj, Ethiopian senterej, Mongolian Tamerlane chess and medieval...
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