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Piececlopedia: Giraffe
Historical notes
In several variants of chess, pieces with the name Giraffe appear. By
chess problem composers, the name denotes a piece that makes a kind of
strechted knights jump.
Movement
The giraffe has a kind of `stretched' knights-move: it makes a 1,4-jump,
i.e, it jumps to a square that is either four squares horizontally and
one square vertically away, or to that is four squares vertically and
one square horizontally away.
It jumps, i.e., the giraffe can move regardless whether passed squares
are occupied by other pieces or not.
Movement diagram
Information taken from FIDE Album 1989-1991 (a book with a selection of
chess problems.)
This is an item in the Piececlopedia: an overview of
different (fairy) chess pieces.
Written by Hans Bodlaender.
WWW page created: November 23, 1998.
Last modified: Monday, December 22, 2008
