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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Nov 16, 2024 01:00 PM EST in reply to Aurelian Florea from 11:49 AM:

Well, promotion or royalty is never considered part of the move, and would not be imitated by an I atom. But this feature can indeed be used to suppress imitation of special moves, such as Pawn double-pushes or the King's castling.

Aurelian Florea wrote on Sat, Nov 16, 2024 11:49 AM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Oct 12 06:48 AM EDT:

If you remember the Joker does not imitate fully "special" pieces. So it does not promote, nor castle, etc. . This feature helps with that too.

A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Oct 19, 2024 02:34 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from Fri Sep 20 03:50 AM:

Considered by who? In my eyes it is more a hybrid. It keeps the pieces from Dai that were in Chu, but the large Shogi variants all do that. The pieces that distingush Dai from Chu were all thrown out. Although one might argue that the promotion-on-capture rule is the decisive difference.

But of course there is nothing against hybrids.

Buddhist Spirit is also an interesting power piece.

Well, now that I am back to inventing Chess Variants and being more involved in general, I think using only the Dai Shogi (-like) move types would make for a more interesting challenge. Especially now that the Shock Chess rule is implemented, which makes for a much simplet trading rule without making pieces basically immortal.

P.S. I posited a question about the shock rule in relation to multi-movers, which you can find here.

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2024 06:48 AM EDT in reply to Aurelian Florea from 06:12 AM:

I now also made it such that after a Joker move the imitated type is mapped to a new type as well, rather than staying the same. So the rule is that a Joker imitates the defined 'successor type' of the last moved or imitated piece type. Where by default the successor of each type is the type itself.

Aurelian Florea wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2024 06:12 AM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 05:52 AM:

Thanks!

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