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@ Bob Greenwade[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Feb 1, 2024 07:05 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 05:29 PM:

The bent move of the wide receiver would be a subset of [W?F?qR]. The q is essential here (and because F and R belong to different symmetries describes a 45-degree bent) to distinguish it from the 'delayed Griffon' [W?F?zR] with the zig-zag path. The moves you need would be fs[W?F?qR], since the N moves to the second square on the path (the first to break 4-fold symmetry) would be fsN.

With this system it would not be needed to assign (rather arbitrary) handedness to initial steps. So one could declare a z or q that appears before any bending as  meaning both ways (s). That also has advantages, as in a notation with parentheses repeating the z or q step you would not have to prefix an extra s leg. E.g. the Crooked Bishop could be (az)7F instead of Fas(az)6F. (Of course zB is even better, but for more complex crooked paths the equivalent might not exist, or be ambiguous.)