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H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 06:39 PM UTC:
> ''Bifurcating'' just means splitting into two directions
> to choose after starting in one other original direction.

I thought that in the context of Chess pieces, 'bifurcator' was reserved
for pieces whose path split in reaction to encountering an obstcle
(occupied square) rather than spontanously after a pre-determined distance.
For instance, I would not call the Xiangqi Horse (Mao) a bifurcator.