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Manticore. Moves one space orthogonally, then slides outward as a Bishop.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 14, 2021 11:23 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:54 PM:

Strongly hoping that you will not continue in perpetuating a mistake with Aanca. Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum.

What mistake? Betza did not say that the piece was known by this name historically. Here is what he wrote:

Not described there is a piece which makes a one step Rook move and then continues outwards as a Bishop. For lack of a name, I'll call it the Aanca (13th century Spanish for "Gryphon").

Calling this a mistake is like calling it a mistake for me to name a piece in one of my games a Cavalier, because that is actually the French word for the Knight.