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Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Nov 24 10:11 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sun May 23 2021 08:30 PM:

As I mentioned in my Notes, the "Half-Rose" used in H. G. Muller's Interactive Diagram was chosen to be noticeably weaker than the "six-leaping Rose" used in Charles Gilman's Irwell and Wey.

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For example, the "Half-Rose" on e9 does not give check here, because the Black King is located five Knight-leaps away. This is true whether you move clockwise along the blue dots or move counter-clockwise along the yellow dots. The Rose does manage to pin the Nightrider against its King.