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In the description of the pieces it says ...
The 'Shikari' Master of the wilderness. Combines Knight and Alfil (AN).
However, if you look at the Zillions zrf file for this game, done by Peter Aronson, the 'Shikari' moves like a Knight and Dabbaba, the graphic for it is in the style of a 'knight dabbaba' too.
Anyone have info on this, it's interesting because, if this piece is actually a 'knight alfil' combination, it appears to have come just before 'Outback Chess' which has a knight alfil piece, but only days before amazingly, going by webpage date created. They have both come out about the same time.
They both seem to be the earliest use of this piece in a game, the Knight Alfil was mentioned by J.P. Jelliss, in his 'Theory of Moves', 4 January 2001. He called it a 'Hospitaler'
The piece has been around for awhile, the earliest info i have on it is ...
Knight-Fers and Knight-Alfil tours were first given by Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli, born circa 880, died 946 ad. They are reproduced in numerical form in H.J.R.Murray's 'A History of Chess' 1913, p.336.