Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Jan 3, 2024 04:00 PM UTC:
169. N2R4. A while ago there was some discussion of pieces whose names are based purely on their moves, and how to make pieces based on that. This is one of the more extreme cases, and my take on it.
N2R4 (though it sounds like a droid out of Star Wars) does exactly what the name says: it slides up to four spaces orthogonally like a Rook, or makes one or two (1,2) leaps in a straight line.
It does look rather like an attempt at making the diagram look like a clock face, so an alternate name could be based on that.
The figure is so "on point," I could probably remove the digits and make an alternate form of the Chancellor out of it.
169. N2R4. A while ago there was some discussion of pieces whose names are based purely on their moves, and how to make pieces based on that. This is one of the more extreme cases, and my take on it.
N2R4 (though it sounds like a droid out of Star Wars) does exactly what the name says: it slides up to four spaces orthogonally like a Rook, or makes one or two (1,2) leaps in a straight line.
It does look rather like an attempt at making the diagram look like a clock face, so an alternate name could be based on that.
The figure is so "on point," I could probably remove the digits and make an alternate form of the Chancellor out of it.