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A fairy chess or Chinese chess piece. A (2,2) leaper, but it cannot jump over an intervening piece, like the mao. In Chinese Chess, the elephant is restricted to its half of the board.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
” Chess is most certainly not my life.” Tony Miles
Man has no chance to win against the modern computer. And, by and large, a confrontation between two individuals is more interesting. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess. Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons. Veselin Topalov
2014

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