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Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Apr 5 03:25 PM UTC:

262. Forfrulqubakzeking. A recent creation by HaruNY for his Zen Zebras army in Chess with Different Armies, this piece with the nigh-unpronounceable* name moves forward or sideways like a Queen, or backwards like a King or Zebra. (fhsQKbhZ)**

The piece does have a forward bias to its move, but not enough that I'd consider it qualified as a Spear (except on an extraordinarily large board of at least 20x20).

For the model, the King is replaced by a Man; otherwise, it's left whole, just as is the King's move in the notation (the Queen's move covers it, so there's no need for modifiers). It's otherwise a forward Queen, backward Zebra.

I find the fact that the name, move, and model are all messy to be quite synchronous. For the latter two, that's a good thing, but for the first, not so much; I wish a clearer name could be used. Even something based on my own notation (like Fhasqkibhiz — "FAS ki biz"***) would be easier to deal with.

*Even for me, and I'm generally pretty good at that sort of thing.

**The name is based on the original notation of fhrlQbhJK.

***With the F and B aspirated, if you're into that level of linguistics.


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