213. Slip Queen. 214. Slip Bishop. and 215. Slip Rook. This is something I don't think I've done so far with Piece of the Day, and I'm not excited to be doing it now: I'm putting up a set of "filler" pieces, which don't present anything new -- not the model design, not the move, not really anything significant. I have a busy weekend*, and I had a hard time figuring out a good set of three to post for Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
The "Slip" designation is for sliders that (unless I've gotten things mixed up again) move an odd number of spaces. The Slip Bishop does so diagonally ([F?nAA] or FyyafnF), the Slip Rook does it orthogonally ([W?nDD] or WyyafnW) and the Slip Queen does both ([K?nSS] or KyyafnK).
While I haven't actually used this idea (yet), this could be extended to compounds like Archbishop, Chancellor, Amazon, Caliph, Stewardess, and so forth.
The "Slip" factor could even be applied to Riders, whereby they make an odd number of leaps. (This only just now occurred to me, so maybe this wasn't purely "filler" after all....)
*For the curious, I'm attending C3 Game Con here in my home town of Corvallis.
213. Slip Queen. 214. Slip Bishop. and 215. Slip Rook. This is something I don't think I've done so far with Piece of the Day, and I'm not excited to be doing it now: I'm putting up a set of "filler" pieces, which don't present anything new -- not the model design, not the move, not really anything significant. I have a busy weekend*, and I had a hard time figuring out a good set of three to post for Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
The "Slip" designation is for sliders that (unless I've gotten things mixed up again) move an odd number of spaces. The Slip Bishop does so diagonally ([F?nAA] or FyyafnF), the Slip Rook does it orthogonally ([W?nDD] or WyyafnW) and the Slip Queen does both ([K?nSS] or KyyafnK).
While I haven't actually used this idea (yet), this could be extended to compounds like Archbishop, Chancellor, Amazon, Caliph, Stewardess, and so forth.
The "Slip" factor could even be applied to Riders, whereby they make an odd number of leaps. (This only just now occurred to me, so maybe this wasn't purely "filler" after all....)
*For the curious, I'm attending C3 Game Con here in my home town of Corvallis.