Janus Chess Korchnoi, Péter Lékó and Artur Yusupov. Korchnoi said: "I like playing Janus Chess because one can show more creativity than in normal chess." Chess engines that play Janus Chess: Janus Chess Janus Chess is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Werner Schöndorf from Bildstock, Germany. It is played on a 10×8 board and features a fairy chess piece, the "janus", with the combined moves of a bishop and a knight. The janus piece is named after the Roman god Janus because this god was usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. The usual set of chess pieces
Evolution of the horse horse", "Orohippus" was not a true horse and did not live in the mountains. It resembled "Eohippus" in size, but had a slimmer body, an elongated head, slimmer forelimbs, and longer hind legs, all of which are characteristics of a good jumper. Although "Orohippus" was still pad-footed, the vestigial outer toes of "Eohippus" were not present in "Orohippus"; there were four toes on each fore leg, and three on each hind leg. The most dramatic change between "Eohippus" and "Orohippus" was in the teeth: the first of the premolar teeth were dwarfed, the last premolar shifted in shape and function