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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Sep 13, 2018 01:18 PM UTC:

That the Knight is roughly equivalent in power to a Bishop was probably one of the factors that contributed to it being used in Chess. If the Knight were as weak as a Wazir or Ferz, it might have been replaced by a Knightrider, and if it were as powerful as an Amazon, it might have been omitted.