First of all, thanks for posting the Rose symbol on this site. I used it in Rose Chess XII, another game where the Rose piece is limited to at most four Knight-leaps.
Not sure how a (Halfling) Circular Alibaba moves, but it seems that half of the squares on the board can never be visited by any of these 8 pieces. For example: squares (c1), (c12), (d2), (d11). In Leaping-Missing Bat Chess each army has 4 Alfils and 2 Dabbabahs - together they cover the entire board. John Savard writes: 'Because the board has an even number of ranks, the squares reachable by one of White's Alfils are the squares reachable by one of Black's Dabbabbas, and vice versa.'
First of all, thanks for posting the Rose symbol on this site. I used it in Rose Chess XII, another game where the Rose piece is limited to at most four Knight-leaps.
'ROOKS: are Circular Kings.' - is this a Halfling version of the piece from Ralph Betza's Chess on a Really Big Board? Also called a Rhinoceros in John Savard's Leaping-Missing Bat Chess.
Not sure how a (Halfling) Circular Alibaba moves, but it seems that half of the squares on the board can never be visited by any of these 8 pieces. For example: squares (c1), (c12), (d2), (d11). In Leaping-Missing Bat Chess each army has 4 Alfils and 2 Dabbabahs - together they cover the entire board. John Savard writes: 'Because the board has an even number of ranks, the squares reachable by one of White's Alfils are the squares reachable by one of Black's Dabbabbas, and vice versa.'