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Orthodia. Break your orthogonal and diagonal patterns! (Two versions). (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
HaruN Y wrote on Fri, Mar 1 03:26 PM UTC in reply to KelvinFox from Wed Feb 15 2023 03:00 PM:

Such a piece also exists in Slip Chess mentioned in G. P. Jelliss's A Guide to Variant Chess.

files=8 ranks=8 promoZone=1 promoChoice=NBQR graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/alfaeriePNG/ squareSize=50 graphicsType=png symmetry=none firstRank=1 borders=0 coordColor=#f6eeee lightShade=#7e7474 darkShade=#4d3838 rimColor=#291b1b pawn:P:ifmnDfmWfceF:pawn:a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,h2,,a7,b7,c7,d7,e7,f7,g7,h7 knight:N:N:knight:b1,g1,,b8,g8 Bear:B:qB:bishopinv:c1,f1,,c8,f8 Harlequin:Q:qQ:queeninv:d1,,d8 Panda:R:qR:rookinv:a1,h1,,a8,h8 king:K:KisO2:king:e1,,e8

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KelvinFox wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2023 03:00 PM UTC in reply to David Paulowich from Tue Feb 14 06:29 PM:

such a piece also exists with the Sweeping Switchers


David Paulowich wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 06:29 PM UTC:

Caïssa Britannia, invented by Fergus Duniho in 2003, contains the Dragon (Alfilrider + Dabbabarider). A Dragon moves to precisely those squares that a Torch skips over. On [2021-02-24] Fergus Duniho wrote the following Comment to Bent Riders by Ralph Betza:

"Last night I was thinking of bent riders that are not bent in the sense of changing direction. I suppose they are among the 25 possibilities Betza mentions, but I don't think he elaborated on them. One piece I was thinking of would initially move as a Wazir, then if it continues, continue as a Dabbabbah-Rider. Unlike the Dabbabbah-Rider, this would not be color-bound. Another one would initially move as a Ferz, then if it continues, continue as an Alfil-Rider. Unlike the Alfil-Rider, this would be able to reach every space of the same color instead of just half of them. I was thinking I might call these the Shifty Rook and the Shifty Bishop and their compound the Shifty Queen. Has anyone used these pieces before?"


Diceroller is Fire wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 11:49 AM UTC in reply to Ben Reiniger from Mon Feb 6 02:57 AM:Good ★★★★

I fixed it, it's your turn. There is no castling here;)


Ben Reiniger wrote on Mon, Feb 6, 2023 02:57 AM UTC:

I did some minor editing (fixed the header levels, changed the origin of the berolina pawn, shrank the custom setup image). The en passant rule "same as Horizon" should be explicitly spelled out on this page, please.


H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2022 08:39 PM UTC:
satellite=ortho ranks=8 files=8 maxPromote=2 promoZone=1 promoChoice=RGB holdingsType=1 graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/horizons/ squareSize=57 symmetry=mirror lightShade=#A08FAF darkShade=#7D4A8D holeColor=#111199 whitePrefix=w blackPrefix=b graphicsType=png useMarkers=1 borders=0 Pawn:::pawn:c2-f2 Warrior::ifmnAfmFfceW:berolinapawn:a2,b2,g2,h2 Gold:::gold:b1,g1 Bisroos::mkBkcR:bishop:c1,f1 Roobis::mkRkcB:rook:a1,h1 Torch::(afmpaf)3K:torch:d1 King::KisO2:king:e1

Orthodia

I still had to write a BadZone function for this one, despite my efforts with the captureMatrix parameter. Because the ban on capturing Kings with the capture move for divergent pieces is dependent on the move, not just on the piece type. XBetza can indicate a move can only capture royalty (k modifier), but not that a move can capture anything but royalty. I suppose I could make an XBetza extension for that, by adopting the convention that the combination kc means non-royal capture. This would otherwise be a useless combination, as c already includes capture of royals. So k becomes a kind of toggle modifier, which negates the possibility to capture royalty from what it would have been without its presence.

[Edit] This is achieved now, and the Diagram now is working without any custom scripting.


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