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GraTiA. A blend of two historic variants. (13x12, Cells: 156) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, May 14, 2021 10:27 AM UTC:

This interesting variant featured some pieces for which no XBetza notation existed. Namely a lame Slip-Rook and Slip-Bishop, sliding only an odd number of steps. I now made the diagram understand notations jnAA, with A a distant leaper atom, as a lame rider with the given basic leap, with an elongated first step.

As many pieces promote, and only in an (optional) predetermined way, I used Shogi-style promotion for this diagram. As a result the automatically generated piece list to the right of the diagram does not list all pieces; it only lists the unpromoted forms, and shows the correspondin promoted forms after a second click. The images used in the article's original diagram for Gryphon and Anchorite were not available in the 35x35 set I used for this diagram. I used the standard image for Gryphon and a Rhino instead. The article did not specify any pictograms for the promoted pieces that are not in the start position, so I improvised there.

Interactive diagram: pieces movable, right-click resets!

 
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GraTiA

  • Click below to display piece moves. (Promoted type in brackets.):
  • Pawn (g) (d4,j4; d9,j9) [Giraffe]
  • Pawn (b) (c4,k4; c9,k9) [Bishop]
  • Pawn (r) (a4,m4; a9,m9) [Rook]
  • Pawn (a) (e4,i4; e9,i9) [Anchorite]
  • Pawn (g') (f4,h4; f9,h9) [Gryphon]
  • Pawn (q) (b4,g4,l4; b9,g9,l9) [Queen]
  • Elephant (a1,m1; a12,m12) [Picket]
  • Dabbaba (e1,i1; e12,i12) [Pocket]
  • Wazir (g3; g10) [Panda]
  • Ferz (g1; g12) [Bear]
  • Knight (b2,l2; b11,l11) [Night potentate]
  • Camel (c1,k1; c12,k12) [Camel potentate]