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Man and Beast 13: Straight and Crooked Moving. Systematic naming of part-straight and more complex non-straight pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 07:42 AM UTC:

(1) The Rabbit is not as neat an extrapolation as the Wolf, which 'double-ends' the Gryphon, and the Fox, which does the same with the Anchorite and thereby flips it back from colourswitching to colourbound. It also looks like falling into the same trap as Rook+Cannon of being too strong to use in an actual game. Finally I cannot see how I would extrapolate from the name.
(2) You may be right. The Winther games (and I don't mean skiing et cetera) are hard to follow as they each introduce one piece by a link to a page on his own site. They would have been better introduced as a single page of links, or perhaps one to each shape board.
(3) It has been established that a board of triangles is a hex board with missing cells and pieces leaping holes.
(4/5) It is true that I haven't stressed aspects of numbers of paths, but I would be interested to see if anyone else thinks that's important before enlarging my articles further.
(6) I didn't spot them, plain and simple. What page are they defined on?
(7) Again, where are these? Interestingly the Man and Beast 13 Osprey is also a three-step piece.
(8) For the Combine and Contracombine only the Knight destinations are multipath. For the Double Combine, all except the Queen ones are.
(9) Prince on 01, Badbaba on 09 - the index pages will eventually address questions like this but they take a lot of writing and checking. The first will be a one off suffix one, but the rest I'll do alphabetically so B for Badbaba should appear early on. I once wondered about a Sweeney Todd Chess featuring a Badbaba, but it has yet to inspire me enough to devise an array.