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White Elephant Chess. Four variants pitting the white Elephant army against black with the normal FIDE array. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Peter Aronson wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 06:01 PM UTC:
A fWA? Interesting piece. It covers more ground than the fWF Elephant, but on the other hand is somewhat awkward. One of the Sanskrit words for elephant (and the Elephant piece) is <i>Hasty</i>, which is of course coincidently identical to the English word hasty. Well, to move hastily is to move quickly but awkwardly, so I would dub the fWA the Hasty Elephant or simply Hasty.