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Archabbott Chess. Introduces the Archabbott piece which moves like Bishop + Wazir + Dabbaba.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Ben Reiniger wrote on Wed, Jun 13, 2012 10:28 PM UTC:

In response to Jeremy's points,

1) Of course the majority of the "space" will be empty for being generally unused pieces.  It would be nice to have an easy way to find out whether such a weird piece like the "forward-left knight, forward-right alfil, backward ferz/rook" actually was invented by someone and used in a variant (unlikely, for this one).  There is perhaps already a method for doing this, using funny notation or something similar, but a graphical interface would be nice.

2) For popular pieces, I'd be happy to have links to the already existing (perhaps large) articles here.

3) For pieces that move differently than they capture, the applet could also allow for distinguished move/capture flags.  For even more exotic movements (Mao, Moa, Cannons, etc.) you'd be out of luck (though for these examples the applet should probably just list them as possibilities when given the appropriate input of a knight or rook movement; the pages on CV could then clarify their distinctiveness).  I tend to think of en passant and castling as special rules to the game and not inherent to the pieces.  Further special abilities (multiple captures, custodial captures, copying piece moves, carrying other pieces) wouldn't be the focus of such an applet.

It's probably too much work to try to dig up as many pieces as possible to make this helpful, but I think it would be nice for something like the introductory comment in this thread.