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Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 03:23 AM UTC:
The British Chess Variants Society's <a href='http://www.bcvs.ukf.net/gvcm.htm#S'>All the King's Men</a> page has an entry for <b>Ski Pieces</b> which defined as: <blockquote> <b>SKI PIECE</b> Any line rider modified by omitting the first cell in its ride, i.e. it begins with a little ski-jump. Hence <b>ski-queen</b>, <b>ski-rook</b>, <b>ski-bishop</b> [G.P.Jelliss <i>The Problemist</i> 1973] also <b>ski-nightrider</b>. </blockquote> So pieces that must move at least two, but are <strong>not</strong> blocked by adjacent pieces seem to exist. (Actually, there is also the Boojum piece that moves like a Queen, leaping the first square in my game of <a href='../41.dir/snark-hunt.html'>Snark Hunt</a>.)