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Cardinal Chess. Just like orthodox Western "Mad Queen" Chess only substituting knight-bishop compound for Mad Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 07:27 AM UTC:

'Really diagonal is just orthogonal on a different, bigger board'
	This is something that I have illustrated with my Nested series of variants. For the implication in 3d, see my comments on Tetrahedral Chess.

'Knights are diagonal but use 2 different diagonals together that make them not colorbound'
	Not technically diagonal but I see what you mean. The moves of the Veering Knight and Backing Knight are again the orthogonals of a smaller board:
	.*....*.. ..*....*.
	...*....* *....*...
	*....*... ...*....*
	..*....*. .*....*..
	....@.... ....@....
	.*....*.. ..*....*.
	...*....* *....*...
	*....*... ...*....*
	..*....*. .*....*..

'hunters (pieces that move and capture in diferent ways)'
	It is snipers that have different noncapturing and capturing moves; hunters have different forward and backward moves (and no same-rank ones).