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Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Dec 31, 2020 10:41 PM UTC:

I tried (in the quoted 12x12 diagram of my last post in this thread) to have the diagonal-content pieces not diagonally hitting (i.e. even by X-ray) anything of equal or greater value in the enemy camp in the setup - I also did not want two diagonal-content pieces doubled on a diagonal that would lead to anything in the enemy camp, even an enemy pawn. Looking back, I don't think it's possible to satisfy all my wishes, e.g. for rook-content AND diagonal-content pieces, in a setup if the board is only 12x10. However, 12x12 has the possible drawback that it may take a while in a game for the two armies to come into significant contact with one another. The Knights and Judges (Centaurs) in particular will get off to a slow start (true no matter where they may have been placed in a 12x12 setup with all pawns on third ranks).

On my Chess Federation of Canada Discussion Board blog entry that covers Sac Chess, I mentioned the ideas of NBW and NRF pieces sometime before 2019, but I'm sure both were conceived of long before that. I called the former a 'Freemason'(F) and the latter a 'Ship'(H) [with RF being what I called a Sailor, in Sac Chess].

I think I've since encountered two or more different piece types that someone called a Freemason, and a Ship in another case, on this present chessvariants.com website (even Missionary was used for something else). It's very hard to come up with a name that someone hasn't used already for a piece type. There is a variant called Templar Chess on this site where a different piece type is called a Templar, for example. I haven't yet checked too hard to see if anyone has used 'Heroine' already.


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