Thank you very much for your comments. I will reply to them in reverse order.
I carelessly misread Murray's "One attempt, recorded c. A.D. 850, gives the Elephant a leap over a non-diagonal adjacent square into the one beyond ..." as an (AD) compound, instead of one piece replacing another.
There are a "zillion" reasons for including a few bits of code on this page. A full explanation requires a second Comment.
FEN code can be a great time saver - simply pasting rn1ke1nrpppebppp3pp22PP3PPPEBPPPRN1KE1NR into Diagram Designer and replacing the letter "B" with "Y" brings up an "Abstract 1" chess font which I would be quite happy to play a game with. Unfortunately, the elephant symbols strongly indicate a chess piece that makes diagonal moves only. Not a problem for me, as I have years of practice with elephants moving in eight directions (twelve in Opulent Lemurian Shatranj). But I decided that my readers might prefer the "Alfaerie 1" font with a drawing of an elephant. And that created a new problem for me, as the "Y = Crowned Bishop" symbol looks like an oddly shaped King to my eyes. With my not particularly keen eyesight, I have this perception difficulty with the "Crowned Bishop" symbol in every font except Abstract 1. So I did the best I could with the HTML coding for this page.
Thank you very much for your comments. I will reply to them in reverse order.
I carelessly misread Murray's "One attempt, recorded c. A.D. 850, gives the Elephant a leap over a non-diagonal adjacent square into the one beyond ..." as an (AD) compound, instead of one piece replacing another.
There are a "zillion" reasons for including a few bits of code on this page. A full explanation requires a second Comment.
FEN code can be a great time saver - simply pasting rn1ke1nrpppebppp3pp22PP3PPPEBPPPRN1KE1NR into Diagram Designer and replacing the letter "B" with "Y" brings up an "Abstract 1" chess font which I would be quite happy to play a game with. Unfortunately, the elephant symbols strongly indicate a chess piece that makes diagonal moves only. Not a problem for me, as I have years of practice with elephants moving in eight directions (twelve in Opulent Lemurian Shatranj). But I decided that my readers might prefer the "Alfaerie 1" font with a drawing of an elephant. And that created a new problem for me, as the "Y = Crowned Bishop" symbol looks like an oddly shaped King to my eyes. With my not particularly keen eyesight, I have this perception difficulty with the "Crowned Bishop" symbol in every font except Abstract 1. So I did the best I could with the HTML coding for this page.