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Aurelian Florea wrote on Fri, May 17, 2019 07:18 PM UTC:

I know in Tamerlane chess the picket piece is a bishop that cannot move just one step but must cross the first step. What is the rook's counterpart for this piece? What about longer "blind" steps? I remember Ralph Betza naming a piece anti-rook. But I think it was different, although I don't recall the details!...


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).


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