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You didn't mention notations of pieces which aren't starting on the board. I can make up a suggestion (if you don't like it, make up the new one):
- X = Buddha
- J = Maharajah
A variant which may be possible if you want to add slightly some more Buddha, would be: If the Untouchable piece that has never captured anyone reaches the final row, it is also promoted to the Buddha. I would expect such a thing is also unlikely, but maybe it isn't unlikely enough.
I also noticed, this is the kind of game that the other pieces does not block your way.
There seem to be the possibility to move the Rakshasa next to a royal piece both in where it comes from and where it is moving into, and can keep to continue from there one or other player. If you don't like this, the variant can be done, that it is not allow to make a move of a Rakshasa ending up adjacent to a royal piece (of either color) if no pieces are removed from board as the result (pieces are removed either by capturing, or by the Rakshssa's requirement to remove the piece near it that allows it to move).
He is quite right that my piece cataloguing has moved on considerably since my last comments, and I now have variants using the pieces mentioned. The Guru and Sadhu are indeed described in Man and Beast 03: From Ungulates Outward, and the Guru is used in one army each on pages 2 and 6 of my Armies of Faith series. The Sahib, Memsahib, and Nabob are described in Man and Beast 11: Long-nosed Generals, and are demotees on page 5 of Armies of Faith.
I notice that Luiz Carlos Campos has yet to clarify the Camel/Giraffe ambiguity - or correct his Brahmin description.
I have recently added two more piece names from Indian religion, both oblique triangulators. They are the GURU (4:1 and 5:3) and the SADHU (5:2 and 7:3), and are found in my piece article From Ungulates Outwards. They may be of use in future variants along similar themes. For all your lack of accuracy as to the meanings of Indian titles, you certainly know of the existence of a lot of them. I am currently planning a system of names for pieces mixing one- and two-step radial moves built up from the secular titles SAHIB (Elephant+forward Ferz) and MEMSAHIB (Dabbaba+forward Wazir). Do you know any other titles ending (or even starting) with sahib, or related titles, which might suit other such pieces?
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This would be worthy of rating as good were it not for two errors. Firstly 'The Brahmin - a shaman' implies a somewhat more primitive and localised religion than was the case. The Brahmins were a widespread and unified priesthood much like that of an empire, as the vast geography represented by the board suggests. Secondly, you include among the Devapala moves that of 'a Giraffe (1,3 jump)'. A Camel is 1:3, a Giraffe is 1:4. Which is correct as an element of the Devapala move?
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In the description of the pieces it says ...
The 'Shikari' Master of the wilderness. Combines Knight and Alfil (AN).
However, if you look at the Zillions zrf file for this game, done by Peter Aronson, the 'Shikari' moves like a Knight and Dabbaba, the graphic for it is in the style of a 'knight dabbaba' too.
Anyone have info on this, it's interesting because, if this piece is actually a 'knight alfil' combination, it appears to have come just before 'Outback Chess' which has a knight alfil piece, but only days before amazingly, going by webpage date created. They have both come out about the same time.
They both seem to be the earliest use of this piece in a game, the Knight Alfil was mentioned by J.P. Jelliss, in his 'Theory of Moves', 4 January 2001. He called it a 'Hospitaler'
The piece has been around for awhile, the earliest info i have on it is ...
Knight-Fers and Knight-Alfil tours were first given by Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli, born circa 880, died 946 ad. They are reproduced in numerical form in H.J.R.Murray's 'A History of Chess' 1913, p.336.