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Crab. Jumps as knight but only `narrow forwards' or `wide backwards'.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Sat, Oct 8, 2011 03:32 PM UTC:
Before dissecting the short-range Lobster, recall Jaguaribe suggested the right Knight and the left Knight split, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=17921.
Good compounds to fulfill these two could be Water Rook and left Knight, Land Rook and Right Knight, Water Rook and right Knight, Land Rook and Left Knight, making four paired piece-types for 10x10 Hatch Fantasy Grand different armies. Each piece-type should be valued over 4.0 for 45-point army getting equivalence by adding one Queen-type centrally to the other Fantasy Granders.