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Buffalo. Triple compound leaper.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2005 01:02 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
The Buffalo goes back to the enhanced Knight in Cavalry Chess (also known as Magician's Chess) designed by Frank Maus in 1921.

Jared McComb wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2006 03:48 AM UTC:
Is it just my computer or is the diagram a little squooshed?

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2006 02:19 PM UTC:
squooshed

Charles Gilman wrote on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 08:23 AM UTC:
It baffles me why that happened. The diagram was fine before, and I'm sure that I didn't change that part of the HTML. Any ideas for fixing it are welcome.

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 08:23 AM UTC:
I have found the error and sent a further update to correct it. Hopefully this will appear soon.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 04:11 PM UTC:
good work Charles, diagram still not right though, hopefully soon huh

dan davis wrote on Mon, May 19, 2008 04:53 PM UTC:
Wouldn't it be more straightforward to simply describe the Buffalo as a
piece than can, from the middle of a 7 x 7 board, get to every square that
a Queen cannot? In that sense it is the 3-perimeter analogue to the Knight
which can do the same thing from the middle of a 5 x 5 board.


Dan Davis
ddavis5499@comcast.net

📝Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, May 30, 2009 07:28 AM UTC:
As the page's author I authorise editors to remove references to Power Chaturanga, a variant which has been dropped from its page.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 9 08:36 PM UTC:

I replaced the old AI image, which was done with Stable Diffusion and is pictured below, with a new one made with Google Image FX.

buffalo

I also removed the reference to Power Chaturanga, per Charles Gilman's request.


Jörg Knappen wrote on Wed, Apr 9 09:56 PM UTC:

Found an issue with the checkmating applet: Clicking through there it looks as if the Buffalo was missing. Opening the piece overview, there is a broken graphics symbol for both black and white buffalo.


H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Apr 10 06:49 AM UTC in reply to Jörg Knappen from Wed Apr 9 09:56 PM:

The try it link tries to use the image wildebeest3.png, which doesn't seem to exist anywhere. Bizarre thing is that this is in the page source of the bison.html page, as part of the link to the Applet, even if I suffix this page with ?nocache=true. But when I connect to the server with ftp to edit the page, the 3 is not there at all.


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