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Nightrider. (Updated!) Makes a Knight leap, and can make additional leaps in the same direction.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jeremy Good wrote on Sun, May 24, 2015 03:33 PM UTC:
My Oxford Companion to Chess by Kenneth Whyld and David Hooper informs me of the following:

nightrider a LINE-PIECE invented by W.S. Andrews in 1907 and first used in FAIRY PROBLEMS in 1925 by DAWSON, who named it (perhaps after Nightrider Street, adjacent to the place where he attended Problemists' meetings)...