235. Night Rose and 236. Roserider. This weekend's pair are examples in divergent thinking, in more ways than one. While I normally present rotary counterparts on the weekends these days, in this case they're more like "divergent counterparts."
Both pieces can move and capture normally like a Knight (a (1,2) leap), but can then continue on, and how that continuation happens is what makes them different. The Night Rose moves without capture in a circular manner (like a Rose), or captures in a straight line (like a Nightrider). (mqNcNN)
The Roserider (you guessed it) moves without capture in a straight line (like a Nightrider), but captures in a circle (like a Rose). (mNNcqN)
The Rose and Nightrider can be combined in other ways as well (including a simple compounding that I call the Nightmare*), but I'll explore those at another time.
These two were kind of thrown together a little hastily, though I think they're still usable. That's not the point of this listing, though; rather, I'm wanting in this case to encourage thinking about further expanding the possibility of rider/rose combinations. Among other things, any new (or even old) thing that I do with the Knight could also be done with the Camel, Zebra, or just about any other oblique leaper.
*I thought I'd already shared the Nightmare in this collection, but I'm not finding it on my list now. Maybe I'll bring it out next week.
235. Night Rose and 236. Roserider. This weekend's pair are examples in divergent thinking, in more ways than one. While I normally present rotary counterparts on the weekends these days, in this case they're more like "divergent counterparts."
Both pieces can move and capture normally like a Knight (a (1,2) leap), but can then continue on, and how that continuation happens is what makes them different. The Night Rose moves without capture in a circular manner (like a Rose), or captures in a straight line (like a Nightrider). (mqNcNN)
The Roserider (you guessed it) moves without capture in a straight line (like a Nightrider), but captures in a circle (like a Rose). (mNNcqN)
The Rose and Nightrider can be combined in other ways as well (including a simple compounding that I call the Nightmare*), but I'll explore those at another time.
These two were kind of thrown together a little hastily, though I think they're still usable. That's not the point of this listing, though; rather, I'm wanting in this case to encourage thinking about further expanding the possibility of rider/rose combinations. Among other things, any new (or even old) thing that I do with the Knight could also be done with the Camel, Zebra, or just about any other oblique leaper.
*I thought I'd already shared the Nightmare in this collection, but I'm not finding it on my list now. Maybe I'll bring it out next week.