giraffe (chess)

{{short description|Fairy chess piece}}

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The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move.[http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/giraffe.html Piececlopedia: Giraffe] by Hans Bodlaender, The Chess Variant Pages It can jump four squares vertically and one square horizontally or four squares horizontally and one square vertically, regardless of intervening pieces; thus, it is a (1,4)-leaper.{{cite book |last=Dickins |first=Anthony |authorlink= |title=A Guide to Fairy Chess |publisher=Dover Publications Inc |location=New York |year=1971 |origyear=Corrected repub. of 1969 2nd ed., The Q Press, Richmond, Surrey, England |pages=8, 11 |isbn=0-486-22687-5}}

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