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Alfil. Jumps two diagonally. Arabic for the elephant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Iyad wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 08:04 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
the information is really good, but it is inaccurate about one thing...the
name.
as an arab, 'alfil' must sound like 'been', and the 'al-' part could be
droped, for it stands for 'the' in english, so it's correct form is 'feil'
and in Arabic it's plural form is 'fei-ya-lah' or 'fie-lan' for two.