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Piececlopedia: Fox. Doubly-bent rider, inspired by the Gryphon and Aanca.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
NeodymiumPhyte wrote on Sun, Dec 17, 2023 04:15 AM UTC:

Shouldn't move option 2) include a lame dabbaba move?


George Duke wrote on Fri, Nov 21, 2008 06:37 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Stiles' Fox is doubly bent rider, two-path to only some of its squares.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Dec 23, 2006 07:50 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
I have been thinking further about pieces of this kind. It occurs to me that the Fox can be seen as a compound of two weaker pieces - a 'samewise' Fox that always makes two left or two right turns, and a 'contrariwise' Fox that always makes one of each. The first shares the Bishop's destinations but by a less direct route, the second those of the Lama (Dabbaba then Bishop) but with two turns instead of one. I take the 45° nature of the turn to apply equally in 3d, so that on both cubic and hex-prism boards the Fox still moves in only one plane in each move and so still has the same two components (but with more pairs of opposites than just left/right). The forward-only piece, the Foxcub, is always contrariwise. The Hyena, with 1:1:1 rather than 1:0:0 steps toppoing and tailing the Bishop section, would similarly have Samewise and Contrariwise components, but so would its forward-only version (Hyenacub?).

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Jun 5, 2006 06:38 AM UTC:
I have now included this piece in a subvariant of my 4 Linepiece Fusion. This resolves the anomaly of it being in the Piececlopedia but not qualifying. In the process I have also thrown in some names for compounds of this kind of piece.

Anonymous wrote on Sun, Oct 3, 2004 12:50 PM UTC:
Note the usage of the names wolf and fox in Wolf chess.

--J%org Knappen

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:41 PM UTC:
This page violates the Piececlopedia guidelines and so should be removed. The Piececlopedia is reserved for pieces that have previously appeared in games or fairy chess problems.

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