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Hmm. I share Roberto's doubts about the long range Archer, but playtesting should prove or disprove those. I assume that the Pushme-Pullyu must make at least one capture if it can, or can it decline to capture any pieces? <p> I'm unconvinced that making Immobolizer's ignore each other is wise -- they have a tendency to dominate Rococo and Ultima without that weakness. <p> As for the name. Rococo is a bit of a pun on Ultima's original name of Baroque -- the Rococo style of architecture, painting and music followed the Baroque style of those things. Unfortunately, the Rococo style was followed by the Neo-Classical style, but a game named Neo-Classical or Neo-Classical Chess might imply something different than you want. I suppose you could call it 'Ornate', which is a modern meaning of both Rococo and Baroque. <p> I've recently encountered a new form of capture, in someone's attempted reconstruction of the Hopi board-game (not race game) of Totolopsi: capture by abandonment. It's sort of similar to capture by withdrawal, but different. A piece is captured by abandonment when an opposing piece with that power moves so to leave the captured piece with no opposing pieces adjacent to it. Odd, but it ought to be good for something.