Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To George Duke wrote on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 06:02 PM UTC:The Bobo. Let's see there would be 4 Bobos. The system is Bo Bishop, Ro Rook, Ho Horse, ho-ho-ho bo-ro-ho, the three fundamentals. Systematization is not insight, but we go along with it because of the European origin of la mad queena, loca en la cabeza. Now BoBo is like double Bishop. Every Bobo moves like a regular Bishop plus one more reverse-colour adjacent diagonal to the ends of the board. There are four potential ''adjacent diagonals.'' Crisscross. Crisscross. CC. CC. Where he is situated, there are 4 orientations for the extra diagonal NE-SW up, NE-SW down, NW-SE up, NW-SE down. We'll further simplify the notations later, but in the array the four Bobos should of course replace Knights and Bishops like this, using 'O' for Bobo: ROOQKOOR. This piece-type makes what was the Bishop into not being *colourbound*. There is no more need for one of the non-colourbound fundamentals, Horse, herself overtly colour-switching, because Bobo goes there too. Value? So approaching Rook as to become indistinguishable. The next step in the chain of evolution of chess is to find the perfect hybrid Rook-Bobo and therefore have only King-Queen-RORORO, or by one equivalent indication King-Queen-XOXOXO. We don't know what that Rook-Bobo hybrid would look like but we can guess the likely name: Boob maybe by acclaim, or better just Book or Koob according to etymological culture; but the above BoRoHo fits logically best when you think about it. The trouble is when once a name sticks it's hard to change, the very point of Moises' original question. When is a Tic a Tac? Under what conditions? The beginning or the end? // By the way, Bobo is perfect case of name came first, that we talked about for CVs. This is a case more unusual of piece-type name first, then only then the piece-type fitting the name! http://www.cmt.com/lyrics/laura-branigan/name-game/251807/lyrics.jhtml Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID ChessboardMath11 does not match any item.