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Armies of Faith 1: The Dawn of Civilisation. The first in of a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (3x(9x9), Cells: 243) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Wed, Jun 6, 2007 01:23 AM UTC:
Falcon Chess articles support Falcon as a Multi-path chess piece, not either a leaper or rider. 'Lameness' is an insulting term applied by Aronson in 2004 to Falcon after Ralph Betza initiated its use in 2003 for a specialized Dabbabah(then Betza disappeared). Pejorative 'Lame' was never used before 2003 for Chess. Actually, confusing the issue, Aronson says Falcon is 'not lame' or different from what a 'lame Bison' would be, without trying to define it. So 'lameness' is now bandied about for Falcon. No other piece that I know of is tried to classify as 'lame' since they came up with that in 2003. Friends use 'Multi-path'. Sorry, David, David P. had no Bison in 1994 ECV, and so what is known Falcon is first mover in a game to those Falcon-Bison 2-4,3-4 squares, and the best implementation, therefore it is Bison deriving. ECV has the 1920's Maus' Cavalry's R-Camel-Zebra leaper of little value since, showing no question compound leapers exist prior to proliferation.