A fairy chesspiece, also named courier that moves like a knight but has a longer range. It is a type of leaper. While the knight moves 1×2 squares, a zebra moves 2x 3 squares.
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Quotes of the Day
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky