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George Duke wrote on Mon, Jul 7, 2008 10:45 PM UTC:
Let's move on to the 'B's'. Jelliss talks of an update. My favourite B's would include two by Betza. Black Ghost, the teleporting piece that cannot capture. Basilisk, which seeing any piece immediately petrifies it ''thrown into paroxism of torment.'' Here Banshee is Bishop + Nightrider. Banshees figure in Clifford Simak's science fiction 'Goblin Reservation', and Dragon in Simak is lone holdover surviving the immediately-prior Universe. Edmund Hebermann's 1920's Berolina Pawn is still about the best anyone can do in 8x8 revision. Winther's later 30 types of bifurcation pieces should be adapted to 8x10, 9x10, and 10x10 more than the few already on larger than 8x8. First functional use of 'Bison' compound leaper, stuck and lost like Simak's 'Way Station' within one or two problems for twenty years, is precisely Falcon in 1992, generalizing it for compatibility with RNB. (My multi-path article enunciates that multiple paths are the norm: even Rook's pathway is not automatic until defined and explained. For example, Sissa goes to the Rook's same [(0,1), (0,2), (0,3)...] by two pathways different from Rook's particular one pathway.) Modern Bishop appeared only around time of 13th-century Courier Chess, because it was hard to visualize all-length diagonal pathways on unchequered boards earlier. So, 'A' Alfil had exclusive life as solo diagonal piece beyond one square for over 500 years.

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