Bob Greenwade wrote on Mon, Mar 18, 2024 03:04 PM UTC:
244. Zebra Crab (Ferzzreb). This is one of the pieces from the Zen Zebras set that HaruN Y created for Chess With Different Armies, and one that I find interesting. It essentially takes the four Knight moves of the Crab (the two forwardmost, and the two that go sideways and backwards) and adds the single diagonal step of a Ferz. (FfbsZ).
It's about as powerful as a Knight*, and makes for a decent substitute.
Of course, the original name of Ferzzreb offers nothing in the way of piece imagery, but Zebra Crab let me take my Crab model and add stripes to the shaft. There probably are even better ways of doing the piece, such as a representation of an actual zebrida.
*The XBetza Sandbox gives it a value of 293 vs. the Knight's 295, While the Play-test Applet scores them at 250 and 252 respectively on an 8x8 board. I'd be curious to learn what scores other systems give the two pieces.
244. Zebra Crab (Ferzzreb). This is one of the pieces from the Zen Zebras set that HaruN Y created for Chess With Different Armies, and one that I find interesting. It essentially takes the four Knight moves of the Crab (the two forwardmost, and the two that go sideways and backwards) and adds the single diagonal step of a Ferz. (FfbsZ).
It's about as powerful as a Knight*, and makes for a decent substitute.
Of course, the original name of Ferzzreb offers nothing in the way of piece imagery, but Zebra Crab let me take my Crab model and add stripes to the shaft. There probably are even better ways of doing the piece, such as a representation of an actual zebrida.
*The XBetza Sandbox gives it a value of 293 vs. the Knight's 295, While the Play-test Applet scores them at 250 and 252 respectively on an 8x8 board. I'd be curious to learn what scores other systems give the two pieces.