George Duke wrote on Thu, Feb 5, 2009 11:21 PM UTC:
''Being blockable'': I think 70-80 of the following will be being blockable, the essence of the conception and applicable to Bishop and Rook too, the norm after all for 6 of 7 chess pieces. (4) We shall have 100 versions of the piece. The number four version of
Falcon is MARSH HAWK. Marsh Hawk flies low and slowly, a sight to behold.
(Species M.H. suffers from the general loss of amphibeans worldwide as a
result, to M.H., of pointless destructive civilisation
population-exploded.) Like Osprey, switch-backing piece-type M.H. follows
only Rook-lines, but has different modality. MARSH HAWK does have 3 legs like
OSPREY. M.H. first leg is either 2 or 3 or 4 steps in one orthogonal
direction. M.H. can only move to the Camel(2,4) or Zebra(3,4) square from
behind orthogonally one step, or sideways if after two prior legs. So, M.H. second leg, upon 90-degree turn, is also
either 2, 3, or 4. The third leg is the (mandatory) one step switching back another 90
degrees. An example from b2 is b2-b3-b4-b5-b6-c6-d6-d5, thus one way to
move b2-d5, capturing or not. Blocking is possible at any of the
intermediate squares, voiding the pathway. MARSH HAWK. Properly Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus).