H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, May 17, 2019 09:48 PM UTC:
The Tamerlane Giraffe is a Gryphon with many blind steps. One could also have ski-sliders that skip several squares. In a sense the Picket is a 'lame' Ski-Bishop. And ski-sliders are a 'degenerate' case of bent sliders, which do change their step at some point (A->F or D->W), but not the direction.
IIRC an anti-slider is a piece that starts its move where the ray through it hits the board edge, and moves towards its old location from there. An equivalent way to describe that is a multi-hopper that must hop all pieces on the ray, except perhaps the last one, which it could also capture (if it is an enemy).
The Tamerlane Giraffe is a Gryphon with many blind steps. One could also have ski-sliders that skip several squares. In a sense the Picket is a 'lame' Ski-Bishop. And ski-sliders are a 'degenerate' case of bent sliders, which do change their step at some point (A->F or D->W), but not the direction.
IIRC an anti-slider is a piece that starts its move where the ray through it hits the board edge, and moves towards its old location from there. An equivalent way to describe that is a multi-hopper that must hop all pieces on the ray, except perhaps the last one, which it could also capture (if it is an enemy).