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Raven. Can move as a Rook or a Nightrider.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Wed, Nov 17, 2021 01:47 PM UTC:

The Raven in the diagram can also move from c2 to a3, but this is not shown in the diagram.


Ben Reiniger wrote on Tue, Feb 4, 2020 03:02 PM UTC:

@KelvinFox, for a Piececlopedia article (and useful advice even for ordinary Piece articles), see
https://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/guidelines.html

You can use the Post Your Own Game scripts, using only the Introduction field, to have a more flexible header system.  (When the fields other than Introduction are empty, the headers are suppressed, and you can include your own.)  You can't select Piece or Piececlopedia, but we (the editors) can change that after.  (But if you want to put it in the Piececlopedia, you'll need to ask Fergus whether he'd prefer/insist on a static html file instead of script submission.)


KelvinFox wrote on Mon, Feb 3, 2020 10:50 PM UTC:

How do I make a new piece submission?


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Feb 3, 2020 03:54 PM UTC:

I borrowed that piece from David Paulowich's Unicorn Chess.


KelvinFox wrote on Mon, Feb 3, 2020 01:11 PM UTC:

I am going to write a page soon about the Bishop version of this piece, which is featured in Caïssa Britannia.


Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, May 18, 2003 06:39 AM UTC:
John Lawson's suggestion of Marshmallow has two primary meanings, a confection and the plant whose root wsd initially an ingredient in it. The best-known example of a piece named after a manufactured food is Waffle - Wazir+Alfil - and the best known with a plant name is Rose - an extension of the Knight. So perhaps Marshmallow should be Wazir+Rose, and as completeness would also require a Rook+Rose combniation I would suggest Marshranger for that.

John Lawson wrote on Sun, May 11, 2003 11:23 AM UTC:
Hmm. So a non-capturing Marshall could be called a Marshmallow?

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, May 11, 2003 09:43 AM UTC:
The Abecedarian Big Chess page (under large variants, surprise surprise!) calls Varan the French for Raven; Waran is presumably an alternative spelling. My own preference would be to call this piece a Marshrider, Wazir+Nightrider a Marshrover, and Wazir+Knight a Marshlander. The last is a simple pun, the Marshrover a MARSHal with the Ranges swapped OVER, and the Marshrider a rider for all pieces starting with Marsh. This has the advantage that names can be extrapolated from other Marshal-like pieces to their dual-rider versions.

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Sep 13, 2002 07:50 AM UTC:
This piece is also (and more commonly?) known as waran.

--Jörg Knappen

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