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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 have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess Siegbert Tarrasch
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’! Boris Spassky
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. Rudolf Spielmann
Despite the ugliness of his decline, Bobby Fischer deserves to be remembered for the great things he did for chess and for his immortal games. Garry Kasparov
2004
Chess…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level. Dr. Chad Witherspoon
2014

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