Giraffe (chess)

White giraffe
Black giraffe
Icons for the giraffe used in diagrams

The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. It can jump four squares vertically and one square horizontally or four squares horizontally and one square vertically, regardless of intervening pieces; thus, it is a (1,4)-leaper.

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