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Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]''BEYOND ROCOCO.'' Great Rococo shows downward trend by Comments: 2008 2, 2007 7, 2006 8, 2005 44... Even Robert Abbott, inventor of 1960's Ultima, came out of retirement to Comment on Rococo 30 January 2004 in one very first Comment here; just scroll down. Concept of Rococo is based on no regular type of capture, that is, no displacement capture that we are used to. Now there are other ways of capturing than Rococo's Withdrawer, Advancer, and Long Leaper. For example, there is Cannon, Xiangqi Cannon's form of capture. Cannon moves like Rook, and captures by jumping exactly one piece and proceeding to displace a foreign piece. Combination of Cannon and T. R. Dawson Canon, or Vao(1914), the diagonal equivalent, is another Queen-like piece suitable for Rococo's lathe. This offshoot of displacement-capture is unique enough to fit in with all the other Rococo units. Do I rush and draw up a 10x12 Rococo, to accomodate ''Cannon+Canon'' piece, having line-up 'Immobilizer-Cannon+Canon-Withdrawer-LongLeaper-King-Chameleon-LongLeaper-Advancer--Cannon+Canon-Swapper'? The border squares intact, ''Beyond Rococo'' becomes 10x12. RULES: SAME AS ROCOCO. No, that would be plebeian. Self-respect and respect for Rococo's invention keep the suggestion modestly here. Would inventors be angry if someone writes up the Cannon+Canon addition into some ''Beyond Rococo'' as their invention. Any conscientious inventor should be at least annoyed at false presumption of full-fledge invention.