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You were looking for games with the Dabbaba-Ferz compound piece. The tag #Piece:Kirin lists currently four games here:
Grand Betza by John Davis, name: Kylin
Sai Squad by Jörg Knappen, name: Diamond
Short Sliders and Zwangskrieg by Bob Greenwade, name: Kirin
The names Kirin (a different transcription of Kylin) should also by mentioned.
Next: The Prince piece. Do you remember our long discussion here:
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Jeremy Lennert came up with the name Dullahan in 2012, and it is featured under this name in my Fearful Fairies. Dullahan and Banshee are a perfect male/female pair of pieces (males are short range, females are sliders; inspired by Kind and Queen)
The last comment for today:
Since the Vulture is featured here, the related and simpler pieces Biok and Roshop (V. R. Parton, Chess Curiouser & Curiouser, 1961) should be added here. Alternatively, the Vulture can be postponed to a part where Biok and Roshop are featured.
Biok moves as Bishop, captures as Rook. Appears in "Enlarged and Improved Chess" (1696) as Ensign (original German: Fähnrich).
Roshop moves as Rook, captures as Bishop. Appears in "Enlarged and Improved Chess" (1696) as Guard (original German: Trabant)
Edit: Corrected year for "Enlarged and Improved Chess": It is indeed from the 17th century. That Chess variant was precognitive!
The very last comment for today:
There is an alternative name for the Camel-Rider, namely Mehari used by French Problemists. It can be found on Jerome Grimberts pages here
Take the time you need to tame this monster.
There is another minor correction left:
'Knight-Camel-Wazir', see 'Eutonic-Knight'.
should have the "T" for "Teutonic", too.
Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thanks, its corrected now.
Fairy Pieces Part 2. Showcasing 158 Fairy Pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is a remark on spelling: The little Fers/Ferz occurs in both spellings in this file. Both spellings are legitimate but I think you should decide on one and use it consistently and mention the other one only in the main entry for the piece. My personal preference is Ferz with z, but I don't mind if you use Fers throughout.
Emperor (Marquis)
I think this is worth mentioning:
Plays in 'Jetan', 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Called 'Thoat'.
Lion-Grande_Acedrez:
The combined (0,3)(1,3) leaper (Camel+Threeleaper) plays in Citadelir Chess 2020, Daphne Snowmoon. Named Prophet.
Knight-Dabbaba-Fers
I have not noticed this combined leaper in any game.
Typo (Cut-and-paste error):
Currently, Zebra-Wazir and Zebra-Wazir-Fers are duplicated
A potential addition:
Wazir-Knight-Threeleaper see Flier
Flier
Combined 1,0 2,1 3,0 leaper Plays in The Sons of Mithras, ca. 1992, Michael Chang Gummelt and Holly Gummelt. Called Flier in this game.
Two more potential additions
Titan
A combined 3,0-3,1-3,2-3,3-leaper, the larger analogue to the squirrel. Other names are Cheetah (Silvermann, Cazaux) and Beaver (Gilman).
Plays in Fantasy Grand Chess: Giant Army, 2000, Peter Hatch. Called Titan Plays in Phantastic XIII, 2022, Jean-Louis Cazaux. Called Cheetah
Direwolf
Combined piece of Squirrel and Titan.
Plays in Phantastic XIII, 2022, Jean-Louis Cazaux. Called Direwolf (in the revised edition, formerly Sabertooth)
Giraffe-Ferz, Giraffe-Wazir, Giraffe-Wazir-Ferz
I haven't encountered any of those three pieces in a game.
Here are some rather marginal leapers.
German problemists (see https://dieschwalbe.de/lexikon.htm ) have named a few more leapers:
3,0-leaper: Dromedar "dromedary"
3,3-leaper: Gecko "gecko". Was Betza aware of this name when he choose the letter G in his funny notation for (3,3)?
5,0-leaper is unnamed, Gilman offers Quibbler for this one
5,2-leaper: Korsar "corsair"
5,0-3,0 combined leaper: Kröte "paddock" (since the more natural "toad" is already taken)
7,0-leaper: Hirsch "deer" (one may also consider "stag" here, but Cazaux uses stag for a 4,2-leaper). Gilman's name for this one is "settler".
This was an error. Adrian King's Dayrider is in fact AADDmK.
Alibabarider
Plays in Typhoon and Jupiter, 1999, Adrian King. Called Dayrider in both games.
Queen-of-the-night
Plays in 'Pocket Mutation Chess', by Mike Nelson, 2003.
Add: Called 'Amazonrider' in this game.
I hope my series of comments stops here, but I can't guarantee for that. As a side effect I removed a lot of errors from the English Wikipedia article "List of fairy chess pieces".
I meant the colourswitching piece, the numbers were correct, the last name not. I edited my comment to correct that. Thanks for notifying.
The Seeping Switchers. An army for Chess with Different Armies based on pieces that change color when they move.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thanks for the playable diagram.
Just a note to the casual reader: This diagram does not implement the original S(w)eeping Switchers, but a toned down version of them. The Queen-side pieces are more lame than the ones used originally, the King-side pieces are true to the original proposal. In this diagram there are more species of pieces than originally.
Fairy Pieces Part 2. Showcasing 158 Fairy Pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Just for the curious: I accidentally found the original proposal of the Sweeping Switchers here:
https://www.chessvariants.com/ratings/-piececlopedia.dir-ideal-and-practical-values-4.html
It got refined with the help of the editors here.
Featured Chess Variants. Chess Variants Featured in our Page Headers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Edit: I see now that it is already nominated as "Knight-Relay Chess", so this becomes a second to that.
Original nomination, gives the name where the variant can be found here:
Here's another nomination for a featured CV:
N-Relay Chess
for popularising the idea of additional moves and captures by Relay.
Tags Listing. A listing of the tags used on our pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Is it possible to rename the tag "Piece:Berolina Pawn" to "Piece:Pawn:Berolina"? I have already added some children to Piece:Pawn and it would fit perfectly there, IMO.
Favorite Games. Chess variants favorited by our members.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There is something wrong with the rating of Fischer Random Chess: In this list it is the favorite of 12, but on its page I count only 11 having it as a favorite.
It has also an extraordinary high score even it it was favorited by 12.
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On Kaiserspiel (Emperor's game), Sultanspiel (Sultan's game), Peguilhen and L. Tressan:
Kaiserspiel was clearly described in 1819 and attributed to some Peguilhen. It contains the Amazon (named Feldherr in original German, English translations include General and Commander. Probably the more clumsy "Commander in Chief" is a better translation. It also contains the Bishop-Knight piece under the name Adjutant. L. Tressan republished this game with slight amendments but did not change the pieces and their names. The addition of the Rook-Knight piece named Admiral than was pondered, but discarded because of the unusual board size needed (11x11)
Sultanspiel (Sultan's game) was first published by L. Tressan in 1840 and it contains the Rook-Knight piece in addition to the pieces known from Kaiserspiel. The piece is named Marschall (Marshal) there.
Now to the more difficult part: Virtually nothing is known about the person L. Tressan. It appears in a Chess book bibliography by Oettinger under the name "Ludwig Tressau", but I think that the given name is just an extrapolation from the initial by the bibliographer, and that the last letter is plain wrong, it should be an n, not a u (from inspecting the title page of the scanned book, I read clearly a Fraktur n at the end of the name; Google also reads L. Tressan). We do not even know if L. Tressan was male or female, their consistent hiding behind an abbreviation makes me think of a woman named Louise or Luise.
Suggestions for edits:
Correct all appearances of Ludwig Tressan to L. Tressan; try to avoid pronouns for L. Tressan (repeat the name, use the article "the" in place of "his", or use singular they)
Disentagle Emperor's Game (attributed to Peguilhen, ca. 1815) and Sultan's game (attributed to L. Tressan, 1840).
In the description of Marshall, you can add at your discretion the factoid that Peguilhen (1815) pondered about a game including this piece under the name "Admiral" but discarded that idea.
P.S. You may find the following article, also including Hyderabad Decimal Chess, interesting: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/bgs-2022-0017 (The author, Georgi Markov, goes for Ludwig Tressau what I consider an error be Oettinger)