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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess#History

A pawn originally did not have the option of moving two squares on its first move, and promoted only to a queen upon reaching the eighth rank. The queen was originally the fers or farzin, which could move one square diagonally in any direction.

In the Persian and Arabic game the bishop was a pīl (Persian) or fīl (Arabic) (meaning "elephant") which moved two squares diagonally with jump