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Cardinal. Moves as bishop or as knight.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Tony Paletta wrote on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 04:02 AM UTC:
Yes. King and 'Cardinal' can mate lone King: On an 8x8 board the
checkmate takes 17 or fewer moves.

See http://www.chessvariants.com/misc.dir/endgames.html

(Analysis by Dave McCooey, who refers to the B+N as a 'Pegasus'.)