Giraffe (chess)

An icon for the giraffe used in diagrams

The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move.[1] 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.[1]

  1. ^ a b Piececlopedia: Giraffe by Hans Bodlaender, The Chess Variant Pages