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Archabbott Chess. Introduces the Archabbott piece which moves like Bishop + Wazir + Dabbaba.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Wed, Jun 13, 2012 08:04 PM UTC:
Gilman's Man & Beasts system already names many tri-compounds and quadra-compounds specifically beyond the automatic tag each one gets by the fitting defined suffixes made into single word. Extensions of the M&B prefixes and suffixes are able to name in one word millions of piece-types made up of at least three component parts. Some would be contradictory and so inapplicable as Jeremy Lennert points out.  Some are discussed in the articles, for example ordinary Knight in 2d is HELM + HELMCOWARD + HELMDEXTER + HELMSINISTER in Chapter 12 http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSmanandbeast12:. So that way of dividing things, even Knight is not fundamental, but a quadra-compound. How many tri-compounds appear as usefully making piece-types in Charles Gilman's 275 cvs? For follow-up also, what have been some other good tri-compounds in accepted cvs? Not over a hundred as unique different p-ts in 4000 or 5000 cvs.