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Let's run through Jelliss. Under 'B' Bifurcating piece, Winther later develops many more of these after 2003. Jeliss' include Moose, bifurcating Grasshopper. T. R. Dawson's Grasshopper (1912) moves Queenlike and jumps to the next square, capturing or not: the jump is mandatory, and obviously own piece there would be illegal. Now Moose's same modality turns it 45 degrees: two possibilities essentially. To elucidate, from the opening at Queen spot on 8x8, as first move of game, Grasshopper may move over Pawn d1-b3, d1-d3, or d1-f3; whereas Moose instead may move d1-c3 or d1-e3. Neat. Thus Moose, unlike template Grasshopper, is multi-path, that is two-path, to its very closest squares (only); and original Grasshopper is stricty single-path to all its destinations. Jeliss has three more bifurcators, Asp, Eagle, and Sparrow we shall visit. And Winther has 30 or so more of these bifurcation pieces.