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Now that makes sense. You have to turn 45 degrees twice, but not in the same direction.
I think case 2 of the movement rule makes the idea behind the alfil's inclusion clear, though I agree that as written it shouldn't be included. Assuming the author's intent is correctly displayed by the diagram, how does the following sound. Remove case 2 and insert "(possibly zero squares)" after "and slides like a rook"; is this better? Then perhaps state explicitly that this allows the alfil and dabbabah moves.
How could it move to the Alfil square?
Stiles' Wolf is doubly bent rider, two-path to some but not all its squares.
I have been thinking further about pieces of this kind. It occurs to me that the Wolf can be seen as a compound of two weaker pieces - a 'samewise' Wolf that always makes two left or two right turns, and a 'contrariwise' Wolf that always makes one of each. The first shares the Rook's destinations but by a less direct route, the second those of the Zephyr (Elephant then Rook) but with two turns instead of one. As the 45° nature of the turn does not automatically confine the piece to a single plane in 3d, I suggest specifying that constraint so that the Wolf matches the Fox in still having the same two components (again with more pairs of opposites than just left/right). It could exist in parallel with a Wolverine, whose turns are always neither the same nor opposite, and with left-threaded and right-threaded components, and a Jackal, with 1:1:1 rather than the Wolf's 1:1:0 steps topping and tailing the Rook section. The forward-only versions would still have two components.
I have now included this piece in a subvariant of my 4 Linepiece Fusion
This resolves the anomaly of it being in the Piececlopedia but not qualifying. In the process I have also thrown in some names for compounds of this kind of piece.
This page violates the Piececlopedia guidelines and so should be removed. The Piececlopedia is reserved for pieces that have previously appeared in games or fairy chess problems.
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