🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 01:04 AM UTC:
Apology accepted. Following up on Michael Nelson's comment, the earliest
game I've found with an Archer in it is Spanish Chess, which dates back
to 1739. I used the list of Fairy Chess pieces on this site to find the
names of games that use an Archer, then looked them up in Pritchard's
Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. In Spanish Chess, Archers move forward
like Rooks and backwards like Bishops. The Archer was also used more
recently in a commercial game called Fantasy Chess, made by Little Soldier
Games in 1975. This Archer moved up to four squares in any direction.
