Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Aug 30, 2023 03:42 PM UTC:
44. Turtle. The Turtle is something I stumbled across on Ivan Derzhanski's Who is Who on Eight by Eight article. He credits it to a game called Demiurge, and while I can find no other information about that game, I think it makes for a very interesting piece that could add to many games.
It can move up four spaces outward like a Queen, but also leap to the second square on any of those lines (Q4AD).
OK, so it does create a little bit of a headache for the diagram; but at least you know where it's going.
I will say that I had a dickens of a time getting this to look like a turtle and not a bird. Only when I slanted the flippers back did I meet with even this limited success. (Trying to include the shell makes things even more awkward.)
44. Turtle. The Turtle is something I stumbled across on Ivan Derzhanski's Who is Who on Eight by Eight article. He credits it to a game called Demiurge, and while I can find no other information about that game, I think it makes for a very interesting piece that could add to many games.
It can move up four spaces outward like a Queen, but also leap to the second square on any of those lines (Q4AD).
OK, so it does create a little bit of a headache for the diagram; but at least you know where it's going.
I will say that I had a dickens of a time getting this to look like a turtle and not a bird. Only when I slanted the flippers back did I meet with even this limited success. (Trying to include the shell makes things even more awkward.)