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Piececlopedia: Giraffe

Historical notes

In several variants of chess, pieces with the name Giraffe appear. By chess problem composers, the name denotes a piece that makes a kind of strechted knights jump.

Movement

The giraffe has a kind of `stretched' knights-move: it makes a 1,4-jump, i.e, it jumps to a square that is either four squares horizontally and one square vertically away, or to that is four squares vertically and one square horizontally away.

It jumps, i.e., the giraffe can move regardless whether passed squares are occupied by other pieces or not.

Movement diagram

Information taken from FIDE Album 1989-1991 (a book with a selection of chess problems.)

This is an item in the Piececlopedia: an overview of different (fairy) chess pieces.

Written by Hans Bodlaender.

WWW page created: November 23, 1998.

For author and/or inventor information on this item see: this item's information page.
Created on: November 23, 1998. Last modified on: August 23, 2004.

Piececlopedia: Giraffe

Historical notes

Movement

Movement diagram

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