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All the King's MenAn article on pieces . Page describing variant chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 06:40 PM UTC:
Thanks for the nice comments on 'All the King's Men'. It's time I got round to updating it. However describing a camel as a (2,4) mover instead of (1,3) mover would be an historically retrograde step. The length of a camel move (from centre to centre of the two squares) is given by the pythagorean formula (square root of sum of squares of the coordinates of the move). That is in this case root(1x1 + 3x3) = root10. Also in working out the destination of a series of camel moves it is the 1s and 3s that have to be added, not the 2s and 4s.