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I will allow that the description on the chessvariants wiki might be a little terse, but I think it at least adequate, with each non-compound piece having a movement diagram.
I doubt that someone who is not already familiar with Cannons could deduce all the movement rules of the Cannon and Arrow from those diagrams. The Pawn diagram does not indicate whether it can cross the river (as every other diagram does). Is the rook really estimated to be worth only 8/7 of a bishop? The bishop no doubt benefits from the wide board, but that's a larger effect than I would have guessed. Is there another factor I'm missing?
Where are these movement diagrams? I don't see them. All I see is a single setup diagram on this page and a list of piece values on the wiki page.
Looking at the wiki page source, it looks like most of the page is actually embedded HTML rather than normal wiki script. Based on your description, it sounds like you're not seeing that part.
I have started to recast the wiki page in wiki-syntax - hopefully this will speed up the page-loading. The descriptions are intentionally brief as for the most part I would otherwise be repeating the descriptions from Eurasian Chess. The pawn image clearly shows a white pawn that has crossed the river.
Oh. I guess I overlooked it because it has no moves shown.
I'm now seeing the introduction and some text about the starting array, but I'm still not seeing any description of the pieces beyond the mention of the other games they are in.
Now that I know how to play, I've decided to try it out on Game Courier.
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