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Niels van Ham wrote on Mon, Feb 26, 2024 10:35 AM UTC:

I found an interesting method of applying a on the wikipedia page of Ko Shogi, where for example a4 means "up to 4 times", thus KaKaaK would be rewritten as a3K. You could also add an ! to indicate that it must use that exact amount of step, no more, no less. a!5W indicates exactly 5 Wazir moves
Note : In the context of Ko Shogi these multi-steps are allowed to capture a piece on every step, maybe we should do ac3 or another punctuation to indicate multi-capture or something else. This also means that a1 has no definition and a is a2. Edit: The new a, if it were to be defined as a2, would be defined as a combination of the old a and non-a move, which may be weird and or difficult to implement. The old a would be a!2

With this aa is opened up and i think a good idea for what it should be is "as many times as you want", based off the doubling of leaper atoms, which gives us the notation of the Dabbabante and the Ubi-Ubi, being aaD and aaN respectively


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