Ratings & Comments

Oops. I forgot while I was writing.

There's a specific reason not to use Parton's fair race rule with an
absolute doublemove game of Absolute Colorboundmost Chess. 

The reason is that symmetrical play gives Black a guaranteed draw!

An alternate approach to balancing Colorboundmost Chess would to follow the
path used in other double-move variants -- only have white make a single
move on their first move.  I would suggest having white make their first
move on white, so that each player would make the first move on their
King's color.

Once you have white making only a single starting move, it should no
longer be possible for black to mirror white, so race rules could be
applied.

Too much work, I think. I don't think many visitors to this site would want
to look up, say, all variants that use a Murray Lion. Or all variants that
use a Gryphon. Or whatever.

Don't worry about those cross-references. I'm sure you have enough work to
do as it is. :-)

I'm with Joseph on this: too much work for the payoff.  Think about keeping
it up-to-date; whoever's job that was might have no life in a heavy
contribution week.  Also, listing all the pieces in a game is redundant to
the actual game description.

If it were done, it would be most useful to be identified by move, rather
than name of piece.  This would be a sysiphean labor.  You would have to
create indices based perhaps on funny notation.  The syntax of funny
notation is ambiguous, in that although it can describe movement
precisely, there is more than one way to describe the same movement in
many cases.

currently in the piececlopedia, many of the pieces list all the games that
use that piece, even if the piece goes by a different name in a particular
game.  for example, the piececlopedia page for chancellor - moves as R+N -
lists the chancellor from capablanca's chess, the marshall from
grandchess, the champion from carrera's chess, etc.  i think this is a
good idea to have as much as possible, but it also sounds to me like
having an automated system for this is not worth the effort.  i think
we'll have to settle for pointing out any additions to the list to the
piececlopedia editor whenever we see something missing.

with so many submissions it might not be feasible to add gamelist to
 piecelopedia, rather I think it would be perhaps be more helpful for
submitters to reference piecelopedia instead, this way everyone add a few

links yet the pages becomes more understandable.

It seems like a most interesting piece indeed. Such a piece could be the
basis for a variant along the lines of Ralph Betza's Colorboundmost Chess.
I will post details as a comment to Colorboundmostr Chess.)

Hmm... very interesting.  Did you consider the Bishop/Queen equivalents? 
Or even (gasp) the Nightrider equivalent (moves as a 2/4 rider or captures
as a 1/2 rider)?  The latter seems like an especially odd piece,
preferably for use on really big boards.  And how would a king like this
work?  Move as an Alf./Dab. and capture like a king, or capture like an
Alf/Dab/King?  And would a CV in which every piece is like this work well?

Perhaps this would make it less drawish:  The King moves as a Ferz and
captures as a King (mFcK) and cannot castle.  The former change means less
force is needed in the endgame, the latter enhances the chance of a middle
game victory.

I think the weakened King might to the trick, though I would express the
funny notation as FcW.  The resulting game ought certainly to be
different!

This odd piece oddly is almost a rook worth in the endgame.
It still has the can-mate property, except for the rare case
that the bared king is in the secure corner (If the odd piece
is on a1, the secure corner is a8). In the most cases it
can block the secure corner and the bared king is driven by zugzwang
towards a mate. The secure spots left by the odd piece are all 
single fields without secure neighbours -- thus a bare king must leave
them.

--J'org Knappen

No, the odd piece does not have the 'can-mate' property.  If the odd piece
(mDDcR) is on the seventh rank holding the bare enemy K on the eighth
while the friendly K moves in, the odd piece can't move to the eighth rank
to mate! If the odd piece is on the sixth rank, it can't hold the enemy K
on the eighth--the whole seventh rank is safe.

Two of the odd pieces, one on a even-numbered rank (or file) and one on an
odd-numbered rank (or file) should mate easily.