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Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Feb 29 10:51 PM UTC:

While recently working on a particularly weird chess variant with a very odd board, it occurrerd to me that I'd set up certain elements in such a way that, under certain circumstances, a rifle capture might not be able to return the way it came, even if it was a simple diagonal slide (caibB). This was a product of the quirky board I'm using, so I didn't think of it much, but then it occurred to me that some more mildly exotic cases could face the same problem -- a grasshopper rifle capture, to give a simple example.

So, it made me wonder if there could be a way to mark a point in a move, either replaccing or supplementing u, as a point that the piece later comes back to.

I don't think this would be worth using the w or t for; save those for cases with multiple uses. So, punctuation... I recently suggested ! as an atom modifier for a move being possibly one if under/not under attack, but to my eye it's the character that looks most like a bookmark, so it could be used either following u (which would be my preference) or preceding a to "bookmark" the locatioin for later. Then, for going back, follow a with ~.

You may have a different preference for marker(s), and of course there's no rush on this (the above-mentioned CV couldn't use an ID anyway -- though I'm thinking of something with a bent rifle capture on a more traditional board), but I just thought I'd see if I could get some creative gars turning.


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