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Armies of Faith 1: The Dawn of Civilisation. The first in of a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (3x(9x9), Cells: 243) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]To the laugher, Sorry, Falcon is not lame under Ralph Betza's 2003 definition. These terms, multi-path, four fundamental chess pieces etc., do not mean whatever you want them to mean. There is no use of Lame prior to 2003 for Chess, and Betza uses it for radial movements.
Falcon Chess articles support Falcon as a Multi-path chess piece, not either a leaper or rider. 'Lameness' is an insulting term applied by Aronson in 2004 to Falcon after Ralph Betza initiated its use in 2003 for a specialized Dabbabah(then Betza disappeared). Pejorative 'Lame' was never used before 2003 for Chess. Actually, confusing the issue, Aronson says Falcon is 'not lame' or different from what a 'lame Bison' would be, without trying to define it. So 'lameness' is now bandied about for Falcon. No other piece that I know of is tried to classify as 'lame' since they came up with that in 2003. Friends use 'Multi-path'. Sorry, David, David P. had no Bison in 1994 ECV, and so what is known Falcon is first mover in a game to those Falcon-Bison 2-4,3-4 squares, and the best implementation, therefore it is Bison deriving. ECV has the 1920's Maus' Cavalry's R-Camel-Zebra leaper of little value since, showing no question compound leapers exist prior to proliferation.
I just had to burst out laughing upon reading George Duke's comment. I would say that the Falcon is indeed lame; it's 'lame' in the sense that it cannot jump over intervening pieces. (It has multiple routes to each destination square, but all can be blocked.) That is what is normally meant when a piece is referred to as a 'lame piece'. I don't think Charles Gilman was saying, 'Oh, that Falcon is so lame...' :-)
Charles Gilman already knows that in February 2000 S. Sirotkin sent a chess variant, called Herd. This two player game is played on a board of 7 by 7 squares. Each player has 1 King, 2 Knights, 2 Camels, 2 Bisons, and 7 Pawns.
Piececlopedia: Bison Hans Bodlaender wrote: 'It appears (infrequently) in fairy chess problems; Jelliss (see reference below) gives a mate in two by P. Monreal and F. Calvet from the Problemist, 1974 as an example.'
For all I know, the history of the Bison may extend back a full century. The Bison exists, and has value, independent of any disagreement between two individuals.
Very poor description of Falcon from Falcon Chess (1992), USP5690334. See Comments under another oddball game Horus(2004). Falcon is not 'lame' and invention of Falcon precedes 'Bison' in a game by twelve years, so Bison would be an offshoot, or corruption, of Falcon, not vice versa. Etc.
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