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alfils

alfils is the plural of alfil.

Meaning of alfil

Noun

alfil (plural alfils)

  1. A fairy chess piece that moves two squares diagonally, leaping over any intermediary pieces.
    • In problems with unorthodox pieces the convention is usually followed that they have appeared by promotion of pawns, though this is not sufficient in some cases (e.g. alfils and equihoppers may not be able to get to the required square from the promotion rank). […] The earliest known example of a...2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, pages 9, 10

Questions about alfils

What is alfils the plural of?
Alfils is the plural of alfil.

Words near alfils in the dictionary

  1. alfilaria
  2. alfilarias
  3. alfileria
  4. alfilerilla
  5. alfilerillo
  6. alfils
  7. alfimeprase
  8. alfin
  9. alfins
  10. alfione
  11. Alfirk

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