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Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Feb 13, 2024 06:10 PM UTC:

210. Dumbbell (Strongman). This is yet another potential piece for my Clue mashup variant. As I've said, I intend to include eight weapons in that game, including the six classics, the Poison (since it appears in the most Clue variants), and one other. This is one of the candidates for that last.

The Dumbbell simply moves one space orthogonally, like a Wazir. If there's an enemy piece there, that piece is pushed back one space. If this pushes the piece off the board or into a piece on the Dumbbell's own side, then the enemy piece is captured. If it pushes the piece into a piece on its own side, then the far piece is captured. (mW[dD-bucW][cD-ubcW])*

In a game with more than two players (as Clue Chess will be), if the pushed piece goes into a piece owned by neither the Dumbbell's player nor the player of the pushed piece, then that third piece is also pushed back, and the process begins anew.

Since the form is fairly simple and self-explanatory, the model fore the piece came out unusually well.

*I am very unsure that I got this XBetza right, especially the last bit. @H.G., help me out here... also, I'm somewhat sure that your "checking for the edge of the board" isn't yet implemented, so I'm presuming that that part of the move just has to be omitted.


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