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Snappy Chess. A nimble affair thanks to morphing. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Jun 18, 2024 07:00 AM UTC in reply to Gerd Degens from Fri Mar 29 06:22 PM:

Also here having three diagrams that show the initial setup seems redundant.

The move diagrams seem to be screenshots from an Interactive Diagram, but they use color coding for the moves. This mode of highlighting turned out to be unsatisfactory on monochrome displays, which was the reason that a mode was added to the I.D. that highlights with symbols recognizable by their shape, in addition to color. The I.D. would automatically switch to that mode when it detects a gray-scale display, and can do that because it is interactive. For static images I would recommend using the shaped marker symbols in the screenshots, forcing that mode of highlighting by including the line useMarkers=1 in the Diagram definition.

The remark in red on the Dragon Horse seems superfluous, and even a bit patronizing; the reader can expected to be smart enough to notice such hings himself. You don't write a similar remark for tha Cardinal, where it would apply just as well. But it is normal that pieces can access the entire board; alsmost all pieces do that. If anything would deserve a special note, it would be on pieces that are color bound.

The Pawn can move and capture one or two squares forward.

Also here it doesn't specify how a King would morph.