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A Glossary of Basic Chess Variant Terms. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, May 8, 2020 07:35 PM UTC:

I at first thought a line piece was the same thing as a rider, but the definition for pass-through square suggests that the Xiangqi elephant is a line piece. But then what about the Xiangqi horse, which doesn't move in a line? What is the origin of the term line piece, and what is it supposed to mean exactly?