Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Sam Trenholme wrote on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 05:53 PM UTC:Actually I tested such pieces once, to figure out how much of a handicap color-boundedness actually is. To my surprise the extra non-captures are not worth that much, at least when you play the piece in pairs. The issue I have is that having to place bishops on opposite colors reduces the number of possible setups. There are 126,000 possible Capablanca Chess setups where the queen is to the left of the king and the bishops are on opposite colors. There are, however, 226,800 possible Capablanca Chess setups if we allow bishops to be on the same color of squares—something we can only do if we allow the bishops to shift colors. Speaking of strong colorbound pieces, in addition to the Adjuntant (Bishop + Dabbah-Rider), there is the Sage (Camel + Bishop), and The Way of the Knight has a piece called the 'FAD' (Camel + Ferz + Alfil + Dabbah). There’s also, if you want a really powerful colorbound piece, Sage + Dabbahrider (or think of it as a Adjuntant + Camel), or even the diagonal hook mover I recently mentioned (a very ancient piece, older than Mad Queen Chess). (Edit: 226,800, not 453,600 possible setups because the queen should be to the left of the king—we shouldn’t count mirror images) Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Pieces does not match any item.