George Duke wrote on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 04:17 PM UTC:
Score: Mastodon > Unicorn Great > Centennial > Eurasian > Templar > Modern.
Against all forces stygian and terrestrial has seemed our headway to advance
humbly and mercifully one small step for a piece, one giant leap for
mankind. First, any future try in embodiment of Centennial needs serious doctoring -- see here
15.December.2009 -- despite what can have been the best significant idea for
expansion to ten-deep, namely the Pawns and Quadra-Pawns united in one
mutual offsetting. Therefore notwithstanding, twelve-year-old Centennial is herewith de-coupled from
Mastodon and then gets nudged by Unicorn Great Chess as per below.
In contradistinction to lesser Unicorn Chess, Unicorn Great Chess adds Half-Duck and Unicorn. Half-Duck, as prolific Betza's single best piece-type implementation and invention, is tri-compound of Trebouchet, Dabbabah, and Ferz. In this Unicorn, ten-file centrally-flanked makes better placement than Betza was able to perform within his lock-step invariable 64 squares. And why not the more nearly real Unicorn, one Jungian archetype after all? What more appropriate than archetype as piece-type?
Unicorn, the Bishop-Runner-Fool plus the Dawson Nightrider, thus realizes contemporary logical strong Bishop enhancement different from Carrera Centaur (BN). To novices: both Centaur and Unicorn are of the bestiary in consistent nomenclative aspiration. Escape velocity.
Mastodon > Unicorn Great > Centennial > Eurasian > Templar > Modern.
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