- 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...
- 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...
- 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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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...
- 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...
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pieces Orthodox pieces Bishop King
Knight Pawn
Queen Rook
Fairy pieces Alfil Amazon Berolina pawn
Camel Dabbaba Empress Ferz
Giraffe Gr****hopper 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...
