Comments by panther
For an eighth weapon, have you considered a blowgun?
Note: the membership for fairly new LinkedIn public group 'Croatian chess' (chess variant-oriented) has doubled to 14 members since my last post here in mid-Feb; there are now over a dozen group posts. One is a link to CVP site, by myself.
I've been messaging LinkedIn members (some who I know) about the group's existence to help promote it, unknown to the group's owner (a CV-oriented company's CEO, who allows for the general discussion of CVs within the group, by members who post).
There is also a private Chinese Chess group on LinkedIn that is currently larger, and a private Alice Chess group that currently has just two members. Private groups' posts are only visible to their own members.
P.S.: There is also a company Page for a CV company, 5Head Chess, on LinkedIn, besides one for Chess Boxing Global (if that is seen as a legit CV).
@ Fergus (and others):
There was a death in my family this evening, so I may be a bit slow moving in our games or responding to any requests by editorial staff re: my pending submissions from March, at least for a while. I am not too upset at the moment, but my sister-in-law and others may need assistance.
Regards, Kevin Pacey
Hi J-L
I may have been too critical, based on seeing the picture, like an earlier post of yours alluded to. If you're holding it up close and it looks fine to you, by all means stick with it.
K
@ Jean-Louis
If I looked at the right pictures in one of your earlier links (title of it including 'recent', I think), I didn't like the second Centaur option pictured because I thought it reminded me rather more of a bishop, at least without looking too carefully.
Perhaps that can be 'solved' if it's possible to include a lot more of the base of a knight, maybe even up to horse neck level, including much thicker 'carved lines' at the spine (maybe certain Staunton sets are that way?), and having the bend of the figurine somehow eliminated could be good.
I'm not sure a reverse centaur isn't considered a type of centaur by at least some people, but yes, it isn't the archetype. Still, the guard symbol on top of the knight figurine is what was decided on for Alfaerie 2D figurines, at least, as Daniel is alluding to.
Calling a Centaur piece type a Judge was something I did when somehow I thought I saw no entry for NWF in wikipedia the first time I looked at a fairy pieces wiki (maybe edited since, or I missed it), before I applied to and looked at CVP site. A 3D figurine for a judge-person may be easier to imagine and create, who knows. On the bright side, there are nothing but real people (or rook) represented among Sac Chess pieces, i.e. nothing mythical used for CV warfare in my CV's case.
Either that, or use a spikey style hairdo on the knight, like a punk-look. :)
He more or less said so, though he said he wanted to pick a 'smallish number' as he was having his whim:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-math-fans-a-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-number-42/
Note that Adams had his only child at age 42, and Bobby Fischer died at age 64. Carl Jung said to pay attention to coincidences. Question is, what do they mean?
Maybe the age he wanted to have a child was his (inside) joke. It seems his wife and the Lord may have gone along with it quite happily - the latter is thought to have a good sense of humour.
There is also more than one mention of the use of 42 in the scriptures, not just the most terrifying instance towards the end, to further complicate the number of possibilities:
A general problem with fairy chess piece figurines is that while the 6 types of Staunton chess figurines are all quite distinct and serve orthodox chess well, for chess variants sometimes in a given CV such as Sac Chess there can a lot of similar-looking types, it may be unavoidable in such a case. Similar issues might happen for other CVs too, even if the practical similarity issue went away for just that particular CV (i.e. Sac Chess). Fergus' main concern is to get a good-looking Staunton-style figurine of a Centaur that can be used both on the Piececlopedia page and seemingly for a lot of CV games, the latter being difficult to imagine in the form of an example collection of them.
Perhaps a Knight figurine with a Man's head at the top would be the best thought for a Staunton-style Centaur figurine, if the Centaur were not a royal version.
Re: "If the idea is to represent the move, the logical form in a set where the Amazon is a Staunton Knight with the head of a Staunton Queen mounted on top of it, would be a King's head on a Knight. The cross could be omitted for the non-royal case."
I'd trusted that Fergus had already thought of that and hadn't found a way to make it work, for some reason. It'll be interesting to see if anyone else can, as it would avoid using a 'reverse centaur' figurine. Maybe a Man's head (from Piececlopedia page for that) on top of a knight could be even better.
From Google blurb, when I searched for 'meaning of reverse centaur':
A reverse centaur has the head of a horse (non-human, relatively stupid, but trainable) and the body of a man complete with human hands. It's the human hands that are the key.Jun 27, 2023
I haven't dug back thru all the comments, but has it been suggested that a Centaur might be represented by a tall piece (like a Staunton K's base) with a horse's head on it (like a Staunton N's head)?
Such a piece could become royal simply by adding a cross on top, if desired, as Jean-Louis did with an earlier image he gave (except that in that one, the base was not as tall as for a Staunton chess K, if I recall right).
edit: another possibility is to use the base of the Man, up to the neck, from the picture in the Piececlopedia entry for a Man, and put a horse's head on it.
edit2: a possible issue with any of these ideas is if a horse's head's weight might make such a piece fall down fairly easily; perhaps a slender-sort of horse's head might avoid that.
Re: do it properly or not at all: The Wright brothers did not wait for a more effective solution before they made their idea for an airplane known. They put it out there, like a placeholder, perhaps for others to improve upon (and they eventually did). The way of a pioneer is not easy, and often unprofitable for the self.
Today (March 25th) is International Waffle Day - maybe can be special for CVP site in future? :)
True. I thought Newton's maleness and the cartoon artist's body depiction might help, along with any further imagined changes (such as aging in appearance) that you might make to a centaur figurine on the path to finalizing it.
Seems good so far as a rough attempt. If you want any further inspiration, you may recall the old 'The Mighty Hercules' TV cartoon had a young centaur sidekick named Newton for that main character - e.g. you may find the old show in places on YouTube.
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'Fairyland Chess' is a 2018 idea I had for a name for a CV idea I was unsure of. It still is unpublished, until if and when I might do so. I'm not sure if it would be too close to 'Fairy Land', another inventor's independent idea that's now going through the publishing stages - if so, I'd need to change the name of mine, now.
P.S.: On message boards I use in Canada, it is possible to search for keywords or phrases that are contained in comments or blog entries - don't know if that would be too hard to arrange to implement similarly, for CVP's database.
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