Jeremy Good wrote on Sat, Sep 1, 2007 03:38 PM UTC:
Here is an idea for a new set of pieces.
I was looking at Giant Chess this morning and trying out a new design adding a giant ferz near the giant wazir (dev) and sets of leos (paos + vaos) on the first two ranks. It led me to think about how one might make consistent compounds out of knights plus paos and vaos to complement the marshalls and cardinals.
I came up with a piece that moves without capturing as mao but can only capture if there is an obstructing piece on the wazir square (sort of the knight equivalent of the chinese cannon or pao). Same idea with vao + moa (a moa that can only capture when there is a piece obstructing on the ferz square). Now for the hard part: Designing such icons for these pieces. Here is an idea for names for these four new pieces. A maolo and a moala, a paomaolo and a vaomoala.
[Equivalent of Amazon would be piece that can move like paomaolo, vaomoala or leo; tentatively calling it the leolola.]
I was looking at Giant Chess this morning and trying out a new design adding a giant ferz near the giant wazir (dev) and sets of leos (paos + vaos) on the first two ranks. It led me to think about how one might make consistent compounds out of knights plus paos and vaos to complement the marshalls and cardinals.
I came up with a piece that moves without capturing as mao but can only capture if there is an obstructing piece on the wazir square (sort of the knight equivalent of the chinese cannon or pao). Same idea with vao + moa (a moa that can only capture when there is a piece obstructing on the ferz square). Now for the hard part: Designing such icons for these pieces. Here is an idea for names for these four new pieces. A maolo and a moala, a paomaolo and a vaomoala.
[Equivalent of Amazon would be piece that can move like paomaolo, vaomoala or leo; tentatively calling it the leolola.]
[Or leomoma, maybe, therefore, lioness. ;-) ]