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John Vehre wrote on Sat, Feb 22, 2003 07:10 PM UTC:
I guess I should have looked at this sooner since there were two quick
follow up comments.  For Mark the King's leap is in fact a one time
option like Castling and subject to similar restrictions.  You can not
leap out of check nor can the king cross any squares attacked by enemy
pieces.  My interpretation of the leap has been to used it to simply make
a jump left or right along the 2nd rank. My suggested array would be in
fact RCNBQKBNMR with the rooks still being on the 1st rank and the rest on
the 2nd rank as in standard Grand Chess.  The advantage of the new array
is the minor pieces are more centrally located and can better attack the
center.  The Marshall and Cardinal are decentralized but they can more
easily get into the fight again than the bishop and particularly the
knight can in the standard array for Grand Chess.
   For Ed my email is now jvehre@woh.rr.com, and I will see if I can drop
you an email again.  Gothic Chess is also very interesting and the Duniho
option is worth exploring here as well, and can be played with the
Zillions Engine for those interested.

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