Author doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The knight is a knight because its L-shaped movement represents a flanking maneuver, which cavalry is good at.
Most of them seemed pretty reasonable, but yeah the knight bit was a bit off odd.
> From the very beginning of chaturanga, this piece—originally called asva, Sanskrit for “horse”—has firmly maintained its equine association. Of course, this is likely because it is the only piece that is able to jump over the heads of the other pieces.
Of course, the common battle tactic of flanking via leaping your horse over the other side’s lines. A very real and widespread thing that occurred in every culture that had chess.
bee_rider|2 years ago
> From the very beginning of chaturanga, this piece—originally called asva, Sanskrit for “horse”—has firmly maintained its equine association. Of course, this is likely because it is the only piece that is able to jump over the heads of the other pieces.
Of course, the common battle tactic of flanking via leaping your horse over the other side’s lines. A very real and widespread thing that occurred in every culture that had chess.
stewbrew|2 years ago