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Piececlopedia: Saba. Moves one, two, or three squares diagonally and can jump.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝Tony Quintanilla wrote on Tue, Jan 13, 2004 11:27 PM UTC:
I agree. I thought this page was previously removed. In any case, it is removed again!

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Jan 13, 2004 08:10 PM UTC:
Ivan is perfectly right. In his History of Chess, Murrays cites Mr Plowden,
who was British Consul in Abyssinia in 1868 and was saying about the
'Pheels or Bishop' (we write Fils) :
'This piece moves obliquely, like our Bishop, but can only move or cover
three squares, including its own; ...'
The SABA = ALFIL, definitely. Sorry. We got to call otherwise a 3 square
leaper.

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