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.

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. Hans Ree
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language. Boris Spassky
1995
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.” Marcel Duchamp
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well. Magnus Carlsen
2017
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010

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