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Raven. Can move as a Rook or a Nightrider.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, May 11, 2003 09:43 AM UTC:
The Abecedarian Big Chess page (under large variants, surprise surprise!) calls Varan the French for Raven; Waran is presumably an alternative spelling. My own preference would be to call this piece a Marshrider, Wazir+Nightrider a Marshrover, and Wazir+Knight a Marshlander. The last is a simple pun, the Marshrover a MARSHal with the Ranges swapped OVER, and the Marshrider a rider for all pieces starting with Marsh. This has the advantage that names can be extrapolated from other Marshal-like pieces to their dual-rider versions.