Aanca
Moves one square diagonally followed by moving any number of spaces like a Rook outwards (moving away from where it started). See Gryphon.
History & Origins
A giant eagle mistaken for a Gryphon by Murray (1913). Aanca borrowed from the Persian/Arabic legendary anka, an elephant bird (a giant eagle preying elephants), see Gryphon. A name erroneously applied by some modern chess variant inventors to a piece moving t[WB] in Betza's notation and also called Manticore, creating confusion.
- Symbol
- Aa
- Notation
- FaR
- Value
- 8
- Aliases
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- Aanca Grant Acedrex
- Eagle Metamachy Chess Terachess
- Griffin Chexx Chess
- Griffon Bent Bozos
- Gryphon Gigachess Perfect 12 Chess
Move & Capture
Lame (Leaper)