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Attendance Chess. 10 piece types that can move to 10 squares each, mostly. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jul 2, 2005 01:22 AM UTC:

<P>Erez Schatz wrote:</P> <BLOCKQUOTE> The King has only 2 knight moves. This means that it has a potential of 10 squares it can reach (assuming it hadn't used any square move and is located in the middle of an empty board). Once it executed both his knight moves, he has only the usual 8 squares. </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>No, that's bad math. You can't add two actual moves to eight potential moves and say you have ten potential moves. That is like adding two oranges to eight apples and calling them ten apples. If a King can move as a Knight anytime until it has moved as a Knight twice, then up until that time, it has up to 16 potential moves, depending on its location. You could correctly say that it could reach a potential of 10 squares only if it were limited to two specific Knight moves and could not choose from the full set of eight Knight moves.</P>