Comments by KelvinFox
The Haddock on this page is a pretty weak piece. Of can reach some squares only in 13 moves
I've corrected the diagram
I'm going to research the value soonThanks Fergus. I am really proud for writing this
I've added the value and another name by Gilman. Is this page good enough for Piececlopedia?
The Zebra+Knight versions of the Hartebeest are bound to 1/4th of the board
It seems that there are very few to almost no variants having capturing own piece, similarly to how outside XQ there are no variants with a separate checking move (but that has a separate modifier as well). I would suggest making the friendly capture marker hexagonal and the checking marker (currently no marker) octagonal dark red or a crown.
I would use a overlapping red and blue square for cd (I first thought about purple, but that would be too confusing with blue)
Today played a game of Rotary with a set of pieces I made myself. It is a very nice game. The rotational element adds a nice layer of tactics. Only thing that feels weird is the promotion rule
Another bug, on the movement diagram squares that may be only reached to capture own pieces are labeled red instead of blue.
I also suggest adding the hovering pawn in for pieces like mNmcafsW on the movement diagram
The page still contains the error that this piece moves 4,5
I've added an example, I will do more when I am back home
Then there is a bug in the XBetza sandbox
EDIT: Here is the piece at the computer I'm currently using
does anyone know why mFyafsmFpafscB1yafscpF also gives the rook squares as capture squares?
wouldn't a 8th nightrider be possible which goes left-right for both vertical and horizontal moves?
I've asked Mayhematics on twitter about the banshee piece
Edit: I've got an answer, he thinks the name was his (George Jelliss) ideaThanks, source for this piece BTW is All The King's men and Julia's Fairies and on this page http://www.jurajlorinc.com/chess/mycompo.htm
Added the diagram, will fix error with dot tomorrowI'll make this page larger tomorrow. Could someone change the index description to 'Moves like nightrider, but must jump when taking'?
Here a piece I'm calling the Spinning RC Car that moves like a crooked Bishop after the bounce
I've researched and I've found Nao multiple times in the Variant Chess magazine
The name seems to be a invention by George Jelliss
All The Kings men mentioned Banshee. I now also discovered Jörg Knappen used it his CwdA army Fearful Fairies under that name
I was thinking about a piece that moves like gryphon after bouncing
I am going to write a page soon about the Bishop version of this piece, which is featured in Caïssa Britannia.
I've had a idea lately with a vertical only version of this piece
The description for the knight is incorrect. It should read that the knight moves tw squares in one rook wise direction and 1 in another. The piece's current description, while making the same piece as the first one on 2d boards, gives a different piece on 3d boards
@Aurelian Florea
This is a Rhino where all Wazir movements are crooked compared to the previous one
A weird piece idea where all wazir movements are crooked
This looks like a somewhat playable variant, only the weird board size is killing it
Also, the movement diagrams are brokenOne of the weird things about this game is the fact that you can only have 2 Heavenly Horses at max, even though you need 4 to cover the whole board, probably there is some compensation for this. I also investigated the camel variant of it, this piece can only reach 1/6th of the board.
The opposite version and the zebra pieces. I will edit them later with the correct piece picture
Another idea that I have would be knight then camelrider
This looks like a fun variant to play. I am going to test it soon
A logical extension of this would be a version of this that only hops when capturing
I wonder how I can make the Crooked Vao display correctly
Someone on wikipedia added the name Nao for a piece that moves like the Nightrider version of the Cannon. Does anyone know if this name actually was sourced from a chess variants book or was made up?
On the mindsports website, the 4 corner squares are said to be untiled
I wonder if German chess (with chancellor as the royal piece) would be a viable game
Dekle's hex Shogi seems to define Knight's movement somewhat differently (through that maybe also due to the different tiling) and the hexes are turned differently
Can someone change the page so it displays the true inventor
There also exists a earlier version of Hex Shogi bij George R. Dekle
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Couldn't a better octagonal chess be created on a dotted centered octagonal board?