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The point of more trips of six moves(or 5,7,10,whatever) is just that
longer leapers have less mobility, given a board size. On 10x10 Gilman's
Albatross(9,2)can move only from back rank to promotion square, back and
forth ranks 1 and 10, until getting to file a or j, whence it so goes
right and left too, never away from an edge. My implication is that
working backwards from such as Albatross, even Camel and Zebra, while more
valuable than those of greater leap length, are ineffective chess pieces.
What game really uses a Camel effectively or Zebra to advantage? All these simple
oblique leapers serve for intellectual exercises, but compounds entirely
different story.