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Dimachaer ChessA game information page . Introducing the Dimachaer, a bifurcation piece that always lands on the diagonal second leg (zrf available).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝M Winther wrote on Fri, Oct 9, 2009 04:14 PM UTC:
Sam, yes, but the bifurcation pieces have *four* different ways in which they make use of the screen: collision, bouncing, leaping on 1st leg, leaping on 2nd leg. See:
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/bifurcation.htm
It is probably correct that other variants of bifurcation are possible.

One needn't have recourse to Zillions to see how the pieces work. I have created diagrams that describe them exactly. Follow the links to my homepage. FRom the above cross reference one can click in the rightmost column to see the actual bifurcator described with diagrams.

H.G., the second leg leapers can split their path in certain cases: either when capturing or when moving. This is like the Chinese versus the Korean Cannon (which, unlike the second leg leapers, are generally too weak in the Western context.) It's *not* necessary for a bifurcator that it moves and captures on the second leg. It can (1) capture on the first leg and move on the second leg, or it can (2) move on the first leg and capture on the second leg , or it can (3) both move and capture on the second leg.
/Mats