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Manticore. Moves one space orthogonally, then slides outward as a Bishop.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 03:28 PM UTC in reply to Bn Em from 01:21 PM:

@Bn Em. I fear a miscommunication. Sorry, English is not my mother language, you sentence is long and not direct enough for my poor English >> I"m not sure about what you mean.

What I know or understand:

  • Cavalier in Renn Chess, Greenwood: is F-then-R or R-then-F, but not an adjacent
  • Cavalier in Mideast according to Pritchard: it is the same than above.
  • Cavalier in Mideast according to Hans: is F-then-R or W-then-B, but not an adjacent

I said that Greenwood took the Cavalier from Mideast, and this is true only if Pritchard is right and Hans is wrong. Pritchard seemed to be quite certain of what he wrote because he said that then the Cavalier has always two paths to reach a square.

My point is not an offense to my friend Hans, of course.

Maybe worth to mention that there are two versions of the move depending on the source.