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George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 05:31 PM UTC:
People bandy about ''leapers.'' There are seven leapers, the smallest
category of piece-type: Dabbabah, Alfil, Knight, Camel, Zebra, and two
lesser-lights Trebouchet(0,3) and Tripper(3,3). Now Charles Gilman names
certain longer-range leapers, and I know a dozen more by Gilman's naming.
Whimsically I use up to a dozen of such leapers at ProblemThemes-1 & -2 year
2007. But can anyone really make a case for utility of any other than the
above in their CV? Omit Trebouchet and Tripper, practically useless too,
we have only five left.  Are not  Dabbabah and Alfil pretty obsolete now
that we have Queen running over their squares?  So, really practical ''leapers''
amounts to set of {Knight, Camel, Zebra}.

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