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The names sometimes changed even more when chess eventually reached Europe, but eventually started to refer to the modern bishop rather than the alfil. Although alfil is still the name of the bishop in Spanish and some other European languages, its former name alfil began to be used in chess problems in English to refer exclusively to the ...
Pīl, alfil, aufin, and similar ("elephant"; from Persian پيل pīl; al- is the Arabic for "the") moves exactly two squares diagonally, jumping over the square between. Each pīl could reach only one-eighth of the squares on the board, and because their circuits were disjoint, they could never capture one another.
The queen is still called ferz in Russian and Ukrainian and the bishop is still called alfil (from al fil, with the article) in Spanish. Due to the piece's change in movement, the ferz and the alfil are now considered non-standard chess pieces. As those who created modern chess did in the 15th century, modern chess enthusiasts still often ...
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The Turkish Chess Federation (Turkish: Türkiye Satranç Federasyonu, TSF) is the governing chess organization within Turkey. The TSF was founded in 1954, and became a member of the FIDE in 1962. The federation was integrated into the General Directorate of Youth and Sports in 1991, gaining its official nationwide recognition. [ 1 ]
English: Alfil can only reach one-eighth of the squares on the chessboard. The eight alfils (shown by inverted bishops) can only move on squares of one color (either red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet, or magenta).
Chess with different armies (or Betza's Chess [1] or Equal Armies [2]) is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1979. Two sides use different sets of fairy pieces . There are several armies of equal strength to choose from, including the standard FIDE army.