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George Duke wrote on Mon, Feb 27, 2017 08:46 PM UTC:

The style of commenting here is practically worthless to a hundred casual readers who don't know what Joker or Jester is.  The terms need to be put into context over again each time it is brought up or only a few readers get the point.  I understand the advertising of this piece and the CVs using it because of knowing so many CVs.  Here is contribution to the topic even though this thread is confusing: the Spy from 1937.  The Joker or Jester or Fool being talked about moves like the last piece opponent moved.  The Spy, http://www.chessvariants.com/wargame.dir/novo/novo.html, from Holland pre-World War II also moves like the enemy piece, but Spy moves like the piece it sits on.  Spy has to sit on another piece in fact, friend or foe.  There is a family of Chameleon-like piece-types not just Fool etc. (Of course use of Fool is also Bishop in France.)


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