🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jul 22, 2016 06:06 PM UTC:
T.R. Dawson didn't invent the leo. You must be confused with the grasshopper
Maybe I missed this comment earlier. I didn't confuse it with the Grasshopper. In A Guide to Fairy Chess, Anthony Dickins writes,
Now we meet a small family of pieces that must hop in order to capture over one man of either colour to anysquare beyond that man on the same line; but when not capturing, they move on their normal designated lines. The LEO moves like a Queen, the PAO moves like a Rook and the VAO moves like a Bishop. They were introduced by T. R. Dawson from Chinese Chess, probably before 1914. (p. 11)
Since the Leo and the Vao are not actually in Chinese Chess, the assumption here is that he invented these pieces. If anyone has a reference to an earlier creation of the Leo, I would be happy to see it.
Maybe I missed this comment earlier. I didn't confuse it with the Grasshopper. In A Guide to Fairy Chess, Anthony Dickins writes,
Since the Leo and the Vao are not actually in Chinese Chess, the assumption here is that he invented these pieces. If anyone has a reference to an earlier creation of the Leo, I would be happy to see it.