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Piececlopedia: Pushme-Pullyu.

Moves like a Queen, and captures by approach and withdrawal.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 20 09:16 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 08:58 PM:

A Knight-Camel chimera seems a very odd choice for a Push-Me Pull-You, which neither moves like a Knight nor a Camel. Encouraging its use seems the opposit from what we should do, as it can only cause confusion. If this page uses it, the proper action would be to replace it on this page for something more sensible...

That's not true. All the original GIF pieces and their PNG replacements have separate white and black pieces regardless of how the black pieces are colored.

I was talking about SVG pieces. So far these were only used as input for rendering scripts. The browser on my tablet wouldn't render them if I used them directly (as I did in one of the Comments below). So they cannot be used directly. And if a script is used to render them, this script does not have to be awfully clever to know that when someone asks for bxxx it should render wxxx with teh default white color replaced by the default black color. So we had no use for the black alfaerie SVG.

The XBoard (and Motif) pieces do have essentially different designs for black, though. In fen2.php you can request these by asking for black color #202020.