Piececlopedia: Zebra

Historical notes

The Zebra is a fairly well known fairy chess piece, and has appeared in chess variants under different names. In Mideast Chess, for example, it is called the Courtier.

Movement

The Zebra is a (3,2)-leaper, i.e., it moves (with or without taking) three squares horizontally and two vertically, or two squares horizontally and three vertically. Like a Knight in chess, it jumps — it can move regardless whether the intervening squares are occupied or not.