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Bn Em wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 01:21 PM UTC:

Thanks, Fergus!

@Jean‐Louis: Hmm, in that case it does seem like Hans was in error, esp. if, as you say, RennChess was a followup to Mideast which would suggest that Greenwood had the (putatively) correct description. It may be worth taking the reference back out then given that the otherwise necessary explicit caveat regarding Hans' account might reflect unnecessarily harshly.

@H. G.: Fair; I'll put that in the notes section. Do you think it's worth generally adopting Gilman's additional ‘Double’ term as well for the Duke?

I also remembered one more variant featuring the manticore as iirc a knight upgrade, but haven't found it again [Edit: just found it], and I also found this one with a lame double‐ski (i.e. at least 3‐square) manticore move as one form of the ‘mutating serpent’. Oþoh I feel like this page may well be more than comprehensive enough as it is(!)

Also since I expect to make at least one more revision of this, I seem to remember there's a preference for relative urls in intra‐site links; am I correct in thinking that those are the same as absolute ones but without the leading https://www.chessvariants.com?


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