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Piececlopedia: Flamingo
Historical notes
The flamingo is a less well-known fairy chess piece. I know of no games
that use it. Torsten Linss has a few problems using the flamingo.
Movement
The flamingo is a (1,6)-jumper, i.e., it moves (with or without taking)
one square horizontally and six vertically, or six squares
horizontally and one vertically.
It `jumps', i.e., it can move regardless
whether the intervening squares are occupied or not.
Movement diagram
In the diagram below, the flamingo can move to all the squares marked with
a black circle.
Note that on an 8x8 chessboard, a flamingo on any of the sixteen central
squares has no legal move (and therefore, a flamingo starting on any of
the other squares can never reach the sixteen central squares).
Written by Ben Good. Thanks to André Heuner for noting a mistake in the diagram.
WWW page created: January 15, 1999. Last modified: November 25, 2003.
Last modified: Monday, December 22, 2008
