Joe Joyce wrote on Fri, Jun 15, 2012 02:04 AM UTC:
Grin, this shows how little impact odd shatranj variants and "wargames"
make on even this group. I've used the pieces you've been talking about
in several games, but most tend to be obscure, at best. I would be
surprised if Christine Bagley-Jones has not used these in some game, and
Larry Smith might well have, also.
Anyway, here's some games where various pieces go 1,2, and/or 3 squares
orthogonally or diagonally, and two where the R4A and B4D are used. ;-)
The
first one is a CwDA collaboration between Abdul-Rahman Sibahi and myself.
It uses the full 3-piece combo, the linear orthogonal 3 square mover, the
linear diagonal 3-square mover, and the combo queen-analog piece. Most of
the others do not use the combo piece, just the linear piece. In the
Warlord Games [warlord-2], the pieces leap to each of the 3 squares,
overpassing any intervening pieces. In the other games, the pieces are the
linear hero and shaman, moving 1, leaping 2, or doing both in either
order.
The two large multimove chieftain games use the R4A and B4D.
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MScwda:theshatra
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSchieftainchess
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSchesimals:auto
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MStwolargemulti-
http://chessvariants.wikidot.com/warlord
http://chessvariants.wikidot.com/warlord-2