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(Note: This commment those not belong to a page?) Very interesting because it really seems that that was the purpose of the 'inventor' of chess. Rook, Alfil and Knight to be like the three types of pieces that complemented each other... Historically the first record we have of this (0,2) piece is the Camel in a Decimal chess of Baghdad supremacie era... and also comes convergent to John Ayer theories! It seems logical. We are just missing the proofs. :)
What is the first use of this piece, now known as the Dabbaba? The piece that leaps 2 spaces vertically or horizontally? My conjecture is that this is the original Rook. The reason is that this piece fits naturally with the Gaja and Asva of Chaturanga, which leap to any space in the 2nd square perimeter. It also has the missing binding of the complete board of the Asva, 1/2 of the Mantri, and 1/8 of the Gaja.
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