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Peter Hatch wrote on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 05:37 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
One could have Halfling Knights as well simply by restating the rule as 'no Halfling piece can move more than half the distance to an edge (rounded up)', so a Halfling Knight could not move from the third rank to the first rank, and so on for each edge. This would prevent it from ever reaching the four corner squares, but it could get everywhere else. It's mobility is 4.375 (2.5 if a Knight is 3, 5/6 of the regular Knight's mobility), exactly equal to a Long Knights, as it has the same number of moves from each square as a Long Knight.

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