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Btw, Adrian mentioned to me awhile back that when he developed his Templar, he was unaware of the FAD. Just as well. What better place to quote his musings on the subject than here? (From commentary he made during our first game of Templar Chess:)

I got your e-mail about the Templar and you are correct about the piece. I did not know about Betza's piece but I actually considered giving the Templar the Alfil jump. I decided against it because combining the Ferz and Alfil moves for one piece seemed less intuitive to me. And I also wanted the Templar to be worth about the same as a Rook--and Zillions already gives the Templar a higher point value than the Rook without the diagonal leap.

Thanks for filling in some of the blanks for me, George.