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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).


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!...


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