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H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Nov 3, 2022 11:26 AM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 11:04 AM:

This is what I expected. Stockfish uses bitboards, and the standard algortithms for bitboards are very much specialized for sliding along diagonals and orthogonals. Fast algorithms for check detection also often assume that moves are reversible which is also not true for bent riders.