Check out Glinski's Hexagonal Chess, our featured variant for May, 2024.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 14, 2021 05:09 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from Fri Feb 12 05:08 PM:

I think "subset" would seem the most natural to me.

After sleeping on it, I woke up feeling that subset would work.

I would also personally place the Silver General and company to be in this group rather than Chimera.

With respect to the pieces in both Shogi and Chess, these are both subsets of the King. However, when I adapted these pieces for Hex Shogi, I conceived of the Gold General as moving like a Wazir or forward as a Ferz and of the Silver General as moving like a Ferz or forward as a Wazir. These are accurate descriptions, which may both be regarded as Chimeras of the Wazir and Ferz. But it is also true that the Hex Shogi versions are still subsets of the Hex Shogi King.

If we're to put these into a Subset category, then this would work best if the Man were put into the Simple Leaper category rather than the Leaper Compound category. Is that something you would be comfortable with?


Edit Form
Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.