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@ H. G. Muller[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Thu, Sep 19 07:19 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 05:04 PM:

Since there are several bugs at once, I'll leave you be.

I might post new diagrams of my ideas in the future, for which you can weigh in as you see fit.

My only reservation is that introducing any form of burning makes it more a Tenjiku-Shogi variant than a Dai-Shogi variant. If it was up to me I would prefer to only use moves of a type that are already in Dai Shogi. A quite strong piece without solo-mating capability could be made by enhancing a Queen with linear two-leg moves like exist on the Horned Falcon and Soaring Eagle.

This logic kind of falls flat, since Tengu Dai Shogi does the same thing with hook moves and Lion Dog moves and is still considered a Dai Shogi variant. Queen+Lion could work for the power piece though (I'm no longer concerned about avoiding lone mating as long as there is still some difficulty in doing so).