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Rhino. A set of pieces which combine the movements of the Mao with that of the Wazir.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Jul 10, 2019 06:02 AM UTC:

So this is supposed to be a rhino-mirror rhino alternating?


KelvinFox wrote on Wed, Jul 10, 2019 08:23 AM UTC:

@Aurelian Florea 

This is a Rhino where all Wazir movements are crooked compared to the previous one


H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Jul 10, 2019 09:21 AM UTC:

Note that it must be trivially easy to checkmate a bare King with a Rhino, powerful as the latter is, in addition to covering two orthogonally adjacent squares. The checkmating applet cannot really do crooked sliders, but assuming that blocking doesn't play a significant role with only another King on the board, you can let it calculate a piece that directly leaps to the squares a Rhino would attack.

As is well known, the Gnu/Wildebeest, whose targets all fall on the Rhino paths, has no mating potential. This is due to a coincidental collision with the King. But just adding a single W move to the Gnu (say fW) already cricumvents this problem. So WNC, which is a subset of the Rhino (but leaping) already has an easy mate (maximally 19 moves).

The Mirror Rhino fares even better, as FN in itself has already mating potential (maximally 22 moves). The longer distance moves of the Rhino were only needed because without them no two orthogonally adjacent squares would be attacked.


HaruN Y wrote on Sat, Mar 30 08:32 AM UTC:
How about a 135° Rhino '(abz)W'? A Pine.
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And it's mirror version.
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