George Duke wrote on Wed, Sep 3, 2008 04:18 PM UTC:
Baseball Chess 9x9, The Battery. Catcher-King LF__CF__RF 123
and Pitcher-Queen are the Battery. Baseball SS__PI__2B 456
seen from distance discloses Pitcher and 3B__CA__1B 789
Catcher moving together. Directions are N, E, S, W, NW, NE, SE, SW.
Whatever direction the Queen moves, the King is to move in concert
immediately afterwards the same turn the same direction only his one step. So in this Baseball Chess Mutator, to move Queen is to move King too,where feasible. [Another optional Mutator befitting ''Baseball''] (kkk) As above; and whatever distance Queen moves, King must go just one step to any vacant square. If King is blocked, Queen still moves normally whilst King stays put. King's ''concert-square'' must be vacant, no capture by King upon Queen's move. Also check condition created by King's one-step yet allows Queen moving without King. (lll) 'kkk', except upon Queen's moving, King must capture that same direction (vector-like one space) if possible. (mmm) 'lll', except if King cannot
move, because blocked or to be checked, Queen cannot move either. (nnn)
'kkk', the dual-move concert excludes Queen's Relief Pitcher, 'mm'
to 'oo', but applies to any Queen promotee. (ooo) 'kkk', King may in
fact move to the square Queen just vacates the same move, one step from
King, if directions warrant. (ppp) 'kkk', void if King is not
nonantized. King is initially nonantized, because King's nonant,
opposition ''Home Plate,'' is (d1,d2,d3,e1,e2,e3,f1,f2,f3), and
standard King array slot d1 is among them. Correspondingly opposite for
Black.