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HaruN Y wrote on Sun, Jan 5 05:44 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Fri Jan 3 02:19 AM:

With alternative terminologies (probably not a good idea):
# Chess-based Pieces
## Chess Pieces
Bishop
King
Knight
Pawn
Queen
Rook
## Hybrids
Amazon - Queen + Knight.
Archbishop / Cardinal - Bishop + Knight
Chancellor / Marshall / Empress - Rook + Knight
Crowned Rook / Dragon King - King + Rook
Crowned Bishop / Dragon Horse - King + Bishop
## Compounds
Crowned Knight / Centaur / Princess - King + Knight
Dragon - Pawn + Knight
# Leapers
## Single-Pattern
Alfil / Elephant (2-2 leaper)
Antelope (3-4 leaper)
Camel (1-3 leaper)
Dabbabah (0-2 leaper)
Ferz (1-1 leaper)
Flamingo (1-6 leaper)
Giraffe (1-4 leaper)
Knight (1-2 leaper)
Wazir (0-1 leaper)
Zebra (2-3 leaper)
## Double-Pattern
Alibaba - Alfil + Dabbabah
Bison - Camel + Zebra
Carpenter - Knight + Dabbabah
Gnu / Wildebeest - Knight + Camel
Kangaroo (Newton) - Knight + Alfil
Man / Commoner - Ferz + Wazir
Okapi Knight + Zebra
Phoenix / Waffle - Wazir + Alfil
Root 50 Leaper - 5-5 + 1-7 leaper
Wizard - Camel + Ferz
## Triple-Pattern
Buffalo - Knight + Camel + Zebra
Centaur - Man (Ferz + Wazir) + Knight
Champion - Wazir + Dabbabah + Alfil
FAD - Ferz + Alfil + Dabbabah
Squirrel - Alfil + Dabbabah + Knight
## Asymmetric
Barc - Reverse of Crab. Leaps as Knight narrow backwards or wide forwards.
Crab - Leaps as Knight narrow forwards or wide backwards.
Gold General - As a Wazir or forward one space
Honorable Horse / Shogi Knight - As Knight but only narrow forwards
Mushroom - Forward Knight, narrow backwards Knight, or backwards Ferz
Silver General - As a Ferz or forward one space
Fibnif - Ferz + narrow Knight
## Darters
Mao / Chinese Chess Knight - Moves one space orthogonally, followed by one space diagonally outward
Moa - Moves one space diagonally, followed by one space orthogonally outward
## Double
Single-Step Rhino. Mao + Wazir. By Peter Aronson.
## Snipers
Lion (Murray) - Moves as Alfil or Dabbabah, or captures as Ferz or Wazir
# Riders
## Simple
Bishop (1-1 rider)
Nightrider (1-2 rider)
Rook (0-1 rider)
Zebrarider (2-3 rider)
## Asymmetric
Lance - Moves as Rook straight forward
Zag-Zag - Moves vertically or along ne-sw diagonal.
Zag-Zig - Moves vertically or along nw-se diagonal.
Zig-Zag. Piece moves horizontally or along ne-sw diagonal.
Zig-Zig. Piece moves horizontally or along nw-se diagonal.
## Reflectors
Archbishop - Moves as Bishop but can make reflection at side of board
Bishop, Reflecting - Moves as a Bishop, but can also reflect off of multiple sides of the board.
## Multipath
Cavalier - RennChess piece that steps one diagonally then slides orthogonally, or steps one orthogonally then slides diagonally
Duke - Piece from RennChess that steps one orthogonally then slides diagonally, or slides diagonally then steps one orthogonally.
Ubi-Ubi - Can make arbitrary many knightmoves in one turn.
Sissa - Move exists of moving a number of squares as rook and an equal number of squares as bishop..
Crooked Queen - Rook + Crooked Bishop
## Compounds
Raven - Rook + Nightrider.
Unicorn (2) - Bishop + Nightrider.
## Rider + Leaper Hybrids
BD or Bede - Bishop + Dabbbabah
Caliph - Bishop + Camel
Canvasser - Rook + Camel
## Leaper
Griffon - Historic piece that steps one space diagonally then slides like a Rook.
Hippogriff - Limited version of the Griffon that must slide at least three squares.
Manticore - Moves one space orthogonally, then slides outward as a Bishop.
## Doubly Bent
Fox - Moving in a Wazir-Bishop-Wazir pattern.
Rabbit - Moving in a Knight-Nightrider-Knight pattern.
Wolf - Moving in a Ferz-Rook-Ferz pattern.
## Double
Crooked Bishop - Moves in a diagonal zigzagline.
## Curved
Rose - Can make consecutive knightmoves in a circle.
## Constricted
Edgehog - Moves as a Queen, but only to or from an edge.
Soucie - Moves on queen-lines exactly as many squares as there are pieces on that line.
# Alternative Pieces
## Alternate Pawns
Berolina Pawn Travels diagonally and captures straight forward
Berolina Plus Pawn - Like Berolina but can also capture horizontally
Pawn (Xiangqi) - Moves one space straight forward
Sergeant - A combination of the Berolina and usual Pawns.
Steward - Omnidirectional Pawn.
Pincer Pawn - Travels as rook, and takes by enclosing.
## Alternate Royal
General (Xiang Qi) - Moves like Wazir, but with royal restrictions.
King Battler - King usually moves as a Queen.
Scorpion - King with grasshopper power.
# Hoppers
## Pure Hoppers
Bishopper - Moves along diagonal line to first square after jumped over piece.
Contragrasshopper - Moves as queen but must always jump first.
Equihopper - Jumps across a piece in any direction with the same distance before and after the hurdle.
Grasshopper - Moves along queenlines to first square after jumped over piece
Kangaroo - Moves on Queen lines to first square after second jumped over piece.
Lion - Fairy piece that moves on Queen lines but must hop over exactly one piece.
Mao-hopper - Moves as knight must must jump over occupied orthogonal square at first movement.
Non-stop Equihopper - Jumps across a piece in any direction with the same distance before and after the hurdle.
## Chinese
Cannon / Pao - Travels as Rook but hops to capture
Leo Cannon + Vao
Vao - Travels as Bishop but hops to capture
## Leaper / Hopper Hybrids
Pancake - A piece that moves like a non-royal King or a Nightrider-style cannon.
## Curved
Windmill - Moves around piece.
# Double-Move Pieces
Lion - Chu Shogi piece
# Non-Displacement Capture
Advancer. Travels like a Queen, but captures by approach.
Bowman - Travels as knight, and takes a piece that is an additional knightsmove in same direction away.
Coordinator. Takes in `coordination' with king.
Locust - Moves along Queen lines to empty space immediately after first enemy piece, capturing the piece it hops over.
Long Leaper - Travels as queen, but takes by leaping.
Pawn - Google en passant!
Pincer Pawn - Travels as rook, and takes by enclosing.
Pushmi-Pullyu - Travels like a Queen, and captures by approach and withdrawal.
Withdrawer - Takes by moving away.

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A Taxonomy. Categorizing several types of pieces.

Aurelian Florea wrote on Tue, Jan 7 11:25 PM UTC in reply to Diceroller is Fire from 07:43 PM:

:)!

Diceroller is Fire wrote on Tue, Jan 7 07:43 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 02:00 AM:

The most qualified wizards here:

1) H.G.Muller

2) Fergus Duniho

3) HaruN Y

Thank you all)!

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jan 7 05:57 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 08:00 AM:

'Double' and 'triple' are more precise specifications of 'compound'. So I would just say 'double leaper' and 'triple leaper'.

As pointed out, a double leaper could be a piece that leaps twice, and a triple leaper could be a piece that leaps thrice. Sticking with the word compound makes what I mean less ambiguous.

'Hybrid' wouod be a useful designation for compounds of different move types, like leaper + rider or leaper + hopper.

One of the main contexts in which the word compound comes up is in speaking of the other compounds you could have of Chess pieces besides the Queen. If you called the Queen a compound but referred to the Knight-Bishop and Knight-Rook compounds as hybrids, that would confuse matters. So I am not in favor of using the word hybrid for a type of compound. It might be better used to describe a piece that combines the moves of two different pieces in a hybridized manner, such as the Chinese Chess Knight, which first moves as a wazir, then as a ferz, or bent riders, which start with a leap in one direction, followed by riding in a different direction.

As an afterthought, I could go along with speaking of hybrid compounds, which is different than substituting the word hybrid for compound. After Leapers, Riders, and Hoppers, I could include a new section on Hybrids, which includes hybrid compounds and other kinds of hybridized pieces.

HaruN Y wrote on Tue, Jan 7 08:30 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 08:00 AM:

According to Christian Poisson, (m1,n1 ; m2,n2) Double Leaper is a piece making a leap of coordinates (m1,n1). If that arrival square is empty, it can make a second leap of coordinates (m2,n2).

Single-Step Rhino {WafsW} is a (0,1 ; 1,1) Double Leaper.

Serpent {(afz)F} is a (1,1 ; 0,1) Double Rider.

H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Jan 7 08:00 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Mon Jan 6 05:55 PM:

'Double' and 'triple' are more precise specifications of 'compound'. So I would just say 'double leaper' and 'triple leaper'. As opposed to 'elementary leaper'.

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