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Alfil

The pil, alfil, alpil, or elephant is a fairy chess piece that can jump two squares diagonally. It first appeared in shatranj. It is used in many historical and regional chess variants. It was used in standard chess before being replaced by the bishop in the 15th and 16th centuries. In modern Spanish, the bishop is still known as the alfil.

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Charlemagne setChess variantsTamerlane chessSanskritChaturanga
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Value

KnightKingCheckmateBare king
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Movement

Xiangqi
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Symbol

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Alfil

Nodes38
Edges37
Triples41
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.052632
Components1

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Alfil

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related to history · 24
Alfil → Also, Arabic, Burma, Burmese, Chanderaki, Chess, China, Henry Davidson, History, However, India, It, Murray, Persia, Persian, Renaissance, Sanskrit, Siam, Tamerlane, Thai
related to External links · 6
Alfil → Fergus Duniho, Hans Bodlaender, Ralph Betza, The Alfil, The Chess Variant Pages, The Chess Variant PagesPiececlopedia
related to Symbol · 5
Alfil → BLACK CHESS ALFIL, Both, Chess Symbols, Unicode, WHITE CHESS ALFIL
related to Movement · 3
Alfil → It, Some, The
related to Value · 2
Alfil → Its, The
is a · 1
Alfil → very old piece

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chess bishop pieces piece squares shatranj name move elephant variants used game original two modern india dabbaba spanish arabic silver

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Alfilis avery old piece0.90text
Alfilrelated to External linksThe Alfil0.60section
Alfilrelated to External linksRalph Betza0.60section
Alfilrelated to External linksThe Chess Variant PagesPiececlopedia0.60section
Alfilrelated to External linksFergus Duniho0.60section
Alfilrelated to External linksHans Bodlaender0.60section
Alfilrelated to External linksThe Chess Variant Pages0.60section
Alfilrelated to historyThe0.60section
Alfilrelated to historyPersian0.60section
Alfilrelated to historyArabic0.60section
Alfilrelated to historyChanderaki0.60section
Alfilrelated to historyTibetan0.60section

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