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Chancellor. Fairy Chess name for Rook+Knight compound.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Garth Wallace wrote on Tue, Oct 7, 2014 10:13 PM UTC:
This page says the piece first appears in a Shatranj Al-Kabir possibly from the 14th century. That name has been used a lot. Does anyone know where that claim is from? Is there a particular manuscript it's found in?