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Joe Joyce wrote on Tue, Aug 28, 2007 12:44 AM UTC:
Sam, that is very nice, and looks like a fairly exhaustive list of 1 and 2 square movers. Good job. 

Everyone seems to look at the knights in this context, because they are special pieces here, being the only inclusive compound piece in the group, rather than an 'atom', as are the other 4 pieces, and thus hit more squares.   So the 8-square knights are broken into 2 4-square parts, more closely matching the other 'atoms'. What leaped to mind when I was looking at your backwards and forwards knight components was adding a dabbabah move in the opposite direction. Then I thought that adding east-west dabbabah moves to the narrow knight and north-south ones to the wide knight would be nice. And round it off with forward dabbabah jumps for the barc, and backward ones for the crab, making them sort of star-shaped pieces.

I like the stuff you and Jeremy are doing enough to ask you if you'd be willing to move a copy of TSRP and your works to the CVwiki, and put together a revised and updated work where we could all get our fingers into the pie. You both have added to the original, and additionally, others who have or wish to do stuff can add original material or links to relevant material. The wiki is an ideal spot for this sort of thing. What do you say?

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