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Griffon. Historic piece that steps one space diagonally then slides like a Rook.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 13 11:25 AM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 04:19 AM:

What is worse, it is a non-sensical name for a piece with this move. Hippos means horse in Greek, which in orthodox Chess participates under the name Knight, but in most other languages is referred to by their word for horse.

A hippogriff is a mythical beast that like the griffon, chimera, and manticore is composed of the body parts of different animals. In one of the Harry Potter books, Harry and Hermione ride on a hippogriff. Here is a Hippogriff page on the Harry Potter Wiki, which shows images of it from a Harry Potter movie.