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Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, May 9 04:13 PM UTC:

Yesterday was such a weird day that I forgot to post the PotD, even though by the end of the day I thought I'd done it. So...

295. Quarterback. Expanding on my set of pieces with an American Football theme, the Quarterback is probably the most complex of the lot.

The piece's basic move is to any space within a two-square range, but without leaping.

It also has two options for an initial move. The first is to "jump" the front line: it can leap two spaces in any direction forward; or it can leap over any piece in one of the three spaces directly in front of it to the second space beyond that, without capture.*

The other option for an initial move is the chess equivalent of a pass: the Quarterback swaps places with any friendly piece on the board. (K2nNifhSiffNipfampfamfhKipfampfhamfKimpfapsampz(vs)amfWimpfapsampszafsmWiudU)**

At first I thought I'd need to adjust this piece and make the stars smaller, but once it rendered fully I decided that that would be unnecessary.

(As for today's piece, I'll try to get that up this afternoon.)

*In the XBetza code, I'm frankly a little unsure about the part about jumping over a piece to the second beyond, even though I tested all four parts of that and they all worked as expected.

**Probably this would be much shorter with bracket notation; my brain isn't functioning right to figure it out right now, though.


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