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Short Sliders. Pieces are initially limited to 4 spaces (if that), and promote to longer moves. (12x16, Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bn Em wrote on Thu, Aug 17, 2023 09:19 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Wed Aug 16 06:58 PM:

That kinda is what the table is for, actually.

Well the two serve slightly different purposes really; the table is useful for quick reference, whereas with the list it'd just be an ordering principle, and imo one that makes sense given the separation into first‐, second‐, and third‐stage pieces

On another note, do you happen to know of a mFmAcWcD piece?

I don't remember seeing it used, nor, therefore, any names for it besides Contrasatrap (whence one might also suggest Berolina Satrap). If we're looking for atomic names, perhaps another Persian rank? Either government, such as the Sasanian Shahrab or Mowbed, or military (cf. Guardian for the Berolina Steward) if you can find one

And that mNcAcD sounds like a fun possibility, if it has a mAmDcN to go with it.

Fwiw it feels to me less in need of a counterpart than the Satrap, perhaps because of the less‐obvious correspondence with the pawn/steward. And like those but not their Berolina counterparts, its noncapture is unbound.

I know I've seen it somewhere, as an explicit second‐perimeter Steward counterpart, but I alas don't remember where or what it was called. It seems to have been beyond Gilman's radar