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Complementarity - Part I. With Short Range Project in mind, list of a highly specific set of pieces defined by simplest compounds.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Joe Joyce wrote on Tue, Aug 28, 2007 01:43 PM UTC:

Adding the opposite-sense dabbabah moves to the wide and narrow knights does absolutely nothing for their range, the pieces still visit exactly and only their 'original' squares. What gets added is speed and attacking power. Each piece goes from attacking 4 to attacking 6 squares per turn, and the pieces may now move twice as fast in their original 'non-preferred' direction. I'd say that should increase the piece value roughly 75%. [And decrease their annoyance value about 50%.]

This represents the unusual case where taking a piece with a specific move and adding another piece with a different move does not change the original movement pattern, but only augments the original piece's speed/power. Other examples are adding the alfil move to the bishop or dabbabah to the rook. 

Amazing how good you can make the rationalizations sound for doing something when the real reason you did it was that it looked 'prettier'. And finally, we need some better terms for 'colorbound'. [Only Jeremy and the guy that made Rainbow Chess actually color boards that way. ;-) ]