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💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Apr 10 02:00 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 01:31 PM:

Whereas my Courier is ZXNX (a fifth-radius mover that's just off the Bishop and Rook lines). With a Knight (NZXNX) it becomes a Messenger; make that into a Rider (NNZX0NX0) and it becomes a Messagerider aka Pony Express.

Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Apr 10 01:31 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 06:15 AM:

Oh, sorry, I'm using for yafodaubBcB. It's a bishop that must move the farthest distance in whichever direction it goes, which seems to fit with a running name.

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Apr 10 06:15 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Tue Apr 9 09:18 PM:

@Daniel: I meant, what are the moves of the Courier for you? Is it a mere B?

Daniel Zacharias wrote on Tue, Apr 9 09:18 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:39 PM:

I'm curious to know what is a Courier for you

Same thing, a messenger.

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Apr 9 09:11 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 08:28 PM:

I believe this is supposed to symbolize a courier rather than realistically represent one, as this is something that a courier might deliver.

Correct! The envelope will be in the Modifiers section; put it behind a Knight for (my version of) a Courier, or behind a Knightrider for a Pony Express. And I'm sure there are other applications as well (like, combine it with a Minister for a Postmaster General).

Edit: All of the new ones, except Two-Thirds, went into Modifiers (the other new ones are Anarchy, Crutch, Maple Leaf, and Wine Glass).

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 9 08:28 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:39 PM:

A Courier as a sealed letter is a bit weird for me.

I believe this is supposed to symbolize a courier rather than realistically represent one, as this is something that a courier might deliver.

H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Apr 9 08:19 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:39 PM:

In Dutch we also have the word 'koerier', which I think is the same as the German Kurier. It describes the carrier of an important message, usually on a mission to deliver it fast. Michael Strogoff (of the Jules Verne story) is known in Dutch as 'de koerier van de Tsaar'. Doesn't necessarily have to be on foot; in WWII times military 'koeriers' employed motor cycles. In modern times we speak of 'drugskoeriers', who are people smuggling illegal drugs across the border by carrying those on (or usually: in) their body.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 9 07:43 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Sun Apr 7 03:40 PM:

Okay, this is unzipped.

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Apr 9 07:39 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Mon Apr 1 11:13 PM:

A Courier as a sealed letter is a bit weird for me. Although even in French a "courrier" can be understood as a "mail". The word courier is I believe from German Kurier, and, well I don't speak German so I might be wrong, I believe it is more in the sense of "runner". Because in Middle Age a piece sliding on diagonals was perceived as a piece running fast. HG, is that true?

I'm curious to know what is a Courier for you Daniel?

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Apr 9 05:06 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Sun Apr 7 03:40 PM:

@Fergus: I have a few more icons to unzip (including the envelope to help Daniel out). :)

Still needs to get done. :)

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Sun, Apr 7 03:40 PM UTC:

@Fergus: I have a few more icons to unzip (including the envelope to help Daniel out). :)

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Apr 5 05:12 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Mon Apr 1 11:13 PM:

In case it's helpful:

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Mon, Apr 1 11:42 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 11:13 PM:

Some of those are already doable as combos of existing icons. In particular, the Guard Pawn can be done with a pawn-shield combo.

And I don't even know how I'd differentiate a Chipmunk from the Squirrel, in this art style.

That said, a sealed envelope icon would be handy for at least a couple of pieces that I've seen or invented.

Daniel Zacharias wrote on Mon, Apr 1 11:13 PM UTC:

I have some more piece requests—only if it's no trouble of course. The last two are least important.

a combined Unicorn and Pegasus
Courier (could be a sealed letter?)
Courier Pawn (pawn with top part like small courier)
Guard Pawn (pawn with small shield)
Chipmunk

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Mar 6 06:15 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 06:11 PM:

This should be the page you're looking at.

Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Mar 6 06:11 PM UTC:

the image links on this page are mostly broken

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Mar 6 05:04 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Tue Feb 20 01:46 AM:

Say, is there a way that I could do something similar to sort-of circumvent the file-size limits? Like, make a page with the "The Geometric Concept" business from Chess on a Tesseract, so it could be potentially included in other "on a Tesseract" games to explain just that part?

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Mar 6 04:58 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Tue Feb 27 02:32 AM:

Could you add images for CW and CF? And maybe a catapult and javelin?

They're in place now. I'm not really satisfied with the Javelin (no more than I am with the Katana), but I think they should serve.

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Mar 6 04:46 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:18 PM:

With my gratitude, as always. :)

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Mar 6 04:18 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 02:12 AM:

Okay, I unzipped Greenwade18.zip.

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Mar 6 02:12 AM UTC:

@Fergus: I have a few more icons to switch over, including all four of Daniel's requests. (I'll edit the page for them tomorrow morning.)

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Feb 27 04:32 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 05:29 AM:

It's basically what I just showed you. In the Interactive Diagram (or wherever), you can make the pieces by use entering wazir--camel for the CW, and ferz--camel for the CF for the icon to be used (be sure to use two hyphens). Something like:

camelferz:CF:CF:ferz--camel:c1

camelwazir:CW:CW:wazir--camel:k1

and that'll give you:

(depending on what colors you use, of course). They're not great like that, but they're at least identifiable.

If you're using an automated system like the PTA or Diagram Designer, just put in whatever seems right in the moment, then manually replace it with the compound.

Daniel Zacharias wrote on Tue, Feb 27 05:29 AM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 05:03 AM:

I don't know how to do the combining stuff. Thanks for whatever.

💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Feb 27 05:03 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 02:32 AM:

Catapult, probably.

Javelin, not sure.

Camel-Wazir and Camel-Ferz... I certainly can (and probably will) add those to the list, though if you don't need to compound them any further you probably could just make them with wazir--camel and ferz--camel, respectively.

I have a bunch of stuff going on for the next week or so, but I can get to work on those (Javelin still being a big maybe) afterward.