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2d Large 10 x 10

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Opulent Lemurian Shatranj. Joe Joyce's Shaman and Hero pieces are now on a larger board. (10x10, Cells: 100)

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, May 8, 2021 01:59 AM EDT in reply to Christine Bagley-Jones from 12:13 AM:

When you click on the 'Hero' at a1, it can go to c4, and also the War Elephant on d2 can go to f1. This isn't right is it.

Refresh your browser cache(Shift + reload). There was a bug in the Betza parser of the diagram that caused this. The directional modifiers of a continuation leg are normally interpreted in the (8-fold) K system, so that even on 4-fold aoms like W or F you can use fs to get a 45-degree bent. But absence of any directional modifier in a continuation leg is defined as 'all directions except back to the square you came from', and the meaning of 'all' should only be 'all orthogonal' if the original atom was 4-fold. So that aF means two F steps in arbitrary direction, not an F step followed by a K step. The diagram was allowing the latter, though, and I had to fix that.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sat, May 8, 2021 12:13 AM EDT:

When you click on the 'Hero' at a1, it can go to c4, and also the War Elephant on d2 can go to f1.
This isn't right is it.

H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, May 7, 2021 03:59 PM EDT:

Interactive diagram: pieces movable, right-click resets!


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	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j

Click here to open/close a piece overview. Play it!

Info for selected board piece

	mc	Move or capture
	mc	Move or capture (unblockable jump)
	m	Move only
	im	Move only (unmoved piece only)
	c	Capture only
	m,c	Forbidden move, but delivers check
	p,g	Hop target (hover/touch for actual move)
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Opulent Lemurian Shatranj

Click below to display piece moves:
Pawn (a3-j3; a8-j8)
Knight (c2,h2; c9,h9)
War elephant (d2,g2; d9,g9)
Rook (b2,i2; b9,i9)
Bent shaman (d1,g1; d10,g10)
Bent hero (a1,j1; a10,j10)
General (e2; e9)
King (f2; f9)

Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Mar 1, 2018 03:51 AM EST:Excellent ★★★★★

A fine 10x10 Shatranj style variant to add to the others on CVP.

George Duke wrote on Mon, Jun 9, 2008 08:08 PM EDT:Good ★★★★

Only one Comment so far; there appear conveniently piece values. This Comment is only from momentary perusal. War Elephant is the same as Free Padwar from Jetan, states Joyce. For those, one has to go to Larry Smith's legendary article covering all possible interpretations. We recognize now Bent Shaman and Bent Hero as two-path, their becoming more instinctive, like several interpretations of Jetan pieces. Now actually one piece may have differing number of paths to different squares. Sissa, being Commented simultaneously, is especially interesting in being precisely two-path and four-path at the same time. It depends on its particular arrival squares. Hero and Shaman (both 'Bent' by our appellative preference) are either one- or two-path contingent upon squares in question. Maybe so many mid-range movers struggle on so large board.

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ID	nr	nr	name	move
Click on piece name to see its move diagram. (print version)
P	-	-	pawn	fmWfcF
N	-	-	knight	N
W	-	-	war elephant	FaF
R	-	-	rook	R
S	-	-	bent shaman	AFmpafaFampafF
H	-	-	bent hero	WDmpafaWampafW
G	-	-	general	K
K	-	-	king	K