ALFIL

Arabic for elephant. Also a Bishop in Spanish. A (2,2) leaper. Found in shatranj and replaced in chess, in Europe, by the bishop around 1500.

I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess. Nigel Short
2016
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it. Vladimir Akopian
2012
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized! Mahir Mamedov
2014
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow. Garry Kasparov
2014

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