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Missing Ox Chess. 4 distinguishable FIDE sets represent pieces starting with 24 different letters. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Sat, Jan 10, 2009 06:12 PM UTC:
Gilman says, ''Suitable pieces starting with two letters O and X eluded me.'' Now Gifford has an actual Ox, OX, in Odin's Rune. Gilman must have rejected Brown's Orphan, an important piece mentioned by Vukevich is his speech. And Gilman rejects as unsuitable Winther's Oxybeles hurling pieces over its head. That leaves at least Overtaker of Lavieri's Achernar and Altair, and also Orc, the diagonal equivalent of Shogi pawn, used in Evil Horde of Hatch's Fantasy Grand (FGevil has Ogre too). Both Overtaker and Orc would seem to fit. With so many piece-types, it is better to put only one of each. That is what we do in Complete Permutation Chess, having one FRNBKQ,Amazon,Marshall,Cardinal, and ''Winged''-R, -N, -B, -Q, -A, -M, -C.