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Concise Guide to Chess Variants. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:10 PM UTC:
Here are a few additions sourced from:

Hans Gruber: Märchenschachlexikon, Schwalbe - Deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach, zuletzt aktualisiert am 26.08.2011,
http://www.dieschwalbe.de/lexikon.htm

The source contains tons of information on fairy problem conditions and some pieces. Most of them are outside the scope of the Concise Guide to Chess Variants, but I propose the following additions:

Piece names

ibis - elemental piece, (1,5)-leaper

lancer - elemental piece, (2,4)-leaper
    Note: This piece has a different german name, Hase (engl. hare)

okapi - compound leaper (1,2)+(2,3)


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