M Winther wrote on Tue, Apr 14, 2009 05:27 AM UTC:
Joe, these pieces can also make a non-capturing move to capture square. The Alpaca is interesting because it can sometimes invade the enemy position by jumping, and drive away enemy pieces while they have a higher value. However, it is a common theme that a light piece is exchanged for Alpaca + pawn. Pieces valued 2 are interesting, as long as they are short-range, it seems. I have now also implemented the Vicuña, which captures only on the second square, and jumps continuously. A peculiarity is that the Guanaco can continue jumping although it has a capture possibility on the first square. This is wholly logical. I decided to call this category Lama pieces, after genus 'Lama'. I don't know how good they are, but they can be tested in my programs. They are described here:
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/llamapieces.htm
/Mats